Sports Reporter
THE Department of Sport, Arts and Culture in partnership with the Department of Basic Education and the South African Football Association held a send-off function for the Ubuntu Academy School and Edendale Technical High School at Fun Valley in Johannesburg.
The schools will represent South Africa at the 2024 CAF Africa School Championship Cup to be played on the 21-24 May 2024 in Zanzibar with 20 participating Teams (10 Boys / 10 Girls).
The CAF Africa School Championship Cup is in its third edition after it was launched as a pilot tournament by FIFA as the “Pan Africa School Champions Cup”, aimed at promoting and developing school football in Africa.
South Africa will be represented in the boys’ category by Ubuntu Academy School from Western Cape and the girls’ category by Edendale Technical High School from KwaZulu-Natal. Edendale Technical High School will be playing in its third consecutive CAF Africa School Championship Cup.
Both schools represented the country after winning the 2023 Winter National School Sport Championships held in Gauteng, Benoni, in July 2023. They subsequently represented the country again at the Regional (COSAFA) stage held last December in Zimbabwe, which they won.
The School Sports Championships remain a natural stimulant of the rollout of the school sports league programme, where learners are provided with access to participate in an organised sport programme. This programme is a product born out of the institutional and legislative frameworks, as endorsed at the 2011 Sports Indaba.
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