KZN Dept of Sport & Recreation

15/09/2023

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16/06/2022

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03/06/2022

In keeping up with our quest to become a healthy, active and winning province, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sport Arts and Culture proudly present to you Ilembe District Youth Run. See details here below 👇👇👇

01/06/2022

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Sport Arts and Culture is inviting interested parties to comment on the proposed name change of Pomeroy Town to Solomon Linda. Engagements led by provincial geographical names committee in partnership with DSAC are currently underway in the erea make your views known.

31/05/2022

A new approach by government to promote active and healthy lifestyles, called Move for Health, was launched in Dundee under Umzinyathi District today. The Move for Health Day is an active recreation and healthy lifestyle initiative, a pillar of I Choose 2B Active campaign, which encourages South Africans to step up and take charge of their health and wellness 365 days a year. The campaign further dares others to join so that they can also change behaviour by embodying physical and active lifestyle regularly.
Another objective of Move for Health Day is to entice citizens into the habit of undertaking vigorous physical activity of any form so that on daily basis, irrespective of where they are, they undertake outdoor activities of any form therefore sparking an improvement in their health.
This active lifestyle programme is an international event created back in 2004 by the World Health Organization promoting physical activity with the objective of improving and maintaining good health through encouraging world citizens to at least on daily basis set aside 30 minutes of their busy schedules and engage in physical activity.
This year’s event (Move for Health Day) which was at Sibongile township encompassed a 5Km - Fun Walk
Aerobics,
Tai Chi, yoga
and indigenous games.
All partipants who came out in their handreds from all local municipalities under Umzinyathi District were given a start-up exercise kit including a skipping rope, aerobics mat and a golf shirt and a matching head cap.
The main message is that one does not need to pay for gym membership to remain physically active. A walk up the stairs, cycling around the neighborhood and a walk to the shops can make a huge difference.

29/05/2022

The second part of the World Table Tennis Championship Launch took place at the KwaMashu Indoor Sport Center on Saturday, 28 May 2022. The programme was aimed at fostering social cohesion in the Pink (Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) areas of Durban by using sport as a tool for social change. Children from selected schools in the area took part in a table tennis festival, whilst a total of 9 schools and clubs were recipients of table tennis boards and equipment meant to motivate them to kickstart programmes with the support of the Table tennis association and the Department.

27/05/2022

MEC Mavimbela joined SA Table Tennis Board to unveil the official logo for the 2023 International Table Tennis Federation World Table Tennis Championship which will be held at INkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Centre in Durban in May next year.

MEC Mavimbela said “We were indeed excited on 28 September 2020, when the ITTF voted to award Durban the rights to host the 2023, which we all know is being hosted on the African continent for the first time since 1939 when these games were hosted in Egypt. We will be hosting this on behalf of the African continent.”

“We are happy that after today’s unveiling of the logo, tomorrow we will host the social cohesion programme in KwaMashu that will mark the beginning of the legacy programme for the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Durban 2023. The availing of playing equipment, skills development and capacity building should be the cornerstone of the legacy project,” said MEC Mavimbela