The Northern Cape Provincial Government will be honouring provincial sportsmen and women who have worked hard to fly the provincial flag high.

The provincial government will be launching the first annual Northern Cape Sport and Recreation Awards on Thursday, 20 August 2015 at the Mayibuye Multi-purpose centre in Kimberley.

The prestigious ceremony will be celebrated under the theme “Today’s champions, tomorrow’s legends.”

The sport awards have been created to recognise and honour individuals and teams who have excelled both on and off the field of play. Those to be recognised should have taken part in various sporting codes from 01 April 2009 to 31 March 2015.

The nomination process was opened from 1st June until 15 July 2015.

The process has allowed various sporting federations, league clubs and other interested parties to nominate their preferred sporting personalities from 16 identified categories. The process has seen the Sportsman of the Year category taking the lead with 7 nominations followed by the Coach of the Year, Newcomer of the Year as well as the Sportswoman of the Year categories.

Categories on people with disabilities are still lagging behind.

The categories seeks to recognise individuals, males, females, people with disability, continental participants, federations, schools and community sport volunteers.

They include awarding recognition to the Sport Star of the year, Sportsman and woman of the year, Sportsman and woman of the year with disability, Newcomer of the year, Coach of the year, Team of the year, Federation of the year, Administrator of the year, Volunteer of the year, Referee of the year, Stakeholder of the year, School Team of the year, Developing school team of the year as well as the School sport structure of the year.

“The department acknowledges submitted nominations which will be subjected to an intensive audit process. We have however extended the deadline for nominations in the category of people with disabilities and encourage relevant bodies to make submissions,” departmental spokesperson, Morapedi Sekhoane said.
-TDN
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