MEC opens Easter Sport and Cultural Festivals

By Rhodé Marshall
21 March 2008

A group of sportsmen and women along with the community of Delft gathered to participate in the Easter Sport and Cultural Festivals on Friday.

The Festival was held in Gugulethu last year but the Department of Cultural affairs and Sport says this year it was decided to expand the festival to Manenberg, Heideveld, Caledon, Worcester, Vredenberg, Beaufort West and Plettenberg Bay where activities will be held.

Attending the event is the MEC for Cultural affairs and Sport, Whitey Jacobs. He says at the beginning of the year his department worked with schools in Delft – that being the reason that the festivities kicked off there.

“We are having different communities involved in the project but Delft has been identified as a site for the festivals the reason being that at the beginning of the year we did some work with schools around Delft and we then thought it would be proper to have Delft as our main area of focus,” says the MEC.

Jacobs says the aim of the programme is engage young people and renew the culture of participating in the culture of their community and also take part in sport.

“We want to identify talent and developing it and to encourage our youngsters to participate in sporting activities. Hence you would find various sporting codes being played at the festivals so that you give them opportunities to choose which is the best code of sport that they would like to participate in,” says Jacobs.

It commences on Friday and ends Monday.