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18 Julie 2018
•BERGRIVER SIGNS MEMORANDUM WITH TRUST
Local learners take pride in cycling
At a recent event held at the Piketberg Cricket Grounds the Bergrivier Municipality signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Sports Trust for a five-year partnership in support of the annual Sports Trust Community Cycle Race and Social Cohesion Event in Piketberg, which will be held on the 7th October 2018, hosted by Steynville Senior School in Piketberg. 2018 is the 14th year of the Sports Trust Development Cycling Programme in the Western Cape. Funded since 2005 by Nedbank together with The Sports Trust, this extremely successful programme has taken the sport of cycling into 12 under-resourced high schools and their communities, from the Cape Flats to the Boland. The programme has supplied bikes and supported the training and participation of over 200 learners per year at the participating schools. One of these schools is Steynville Senior Secondary in Piketberg, which, for the second year running is hosting the Sports Trust Community Cycle Race and Social Cohesion Event on 7 October 2018. The main event is a 98km and 46km race. The magnificent but daunting 8km mountain climb up the Versveld Pass constitutes the final stretch of the 98km ride. The younger age groups will participate in shorter races. Dean Josephus, Director of Community Services says ‘’Bergrivier Municipality is so excited to be signing the Memorandum of Understanding with The Sports Trust. Not only will the Cycling event attract people to our beautiful town, Piketberg, and the entire Bergrivier area, but it is also integrating cohesion, unity and creating a long lasting positive change in our community. The Sports Trust has the full support of Bergrivier Municipality and we look forward to our partnership. The development cyclists from all 12 schools will be competing in this race, alongside cyclists from clubs throughout the Western Cape, as happens in all of the three or four Sports Trust Community Cycle Races and associated social events annually hosted in the communities of the participating schools.
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Front: Alderlady Sandra Crafford (Bergrivier Municipality: Acting Executive Mayor) and Jackie Mathebula (Chairman: The Sports Trust). Back: Dean Josephus (Bergrivier Municipality: Director: Community Services), Adv. Hanlie Linde (Bergrivier Municipality: Municipal Manager), Mike Tippett (The Sports Trust: Manager of Cycling Development Program) and Anita Matthews (The Sports Trust: Executive Director). These races are open to all cyclists and are highly competitive, attracting up to 800 entrants – which the Piketberg race achieved last year. The races are endorsed by Cycling South Africa and detailed logistics are required for each race, including bringing in traffic officials, race officials, medical support and race marshals from the community. “It is so inspiring to see the ever-growing numbers of development cyclists on competing in the distinctive new Nedbank Green shirts,” says Tobie Badenhorst, Head of Group Sponsorships and Cause Marketing at Nedbank. “Our cyclists have performed well and showed year on year improvement ever since we joined the development cycling programme at the end of 2013, and they received bicycles and equipment in 2014,” says Steynville Senior Secondary educator and head of cycling, Cyril Keyster. Several of the Steynville Senior Secondary learners who are in the Sports Trust Development Cycling Programme qualify to participate in the Cape Town Cycle Tour each year. Two of
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the cyclists, Joshua Toontjies and Eduardo Engelbrecht were both selected for the Western Cape Cycling team. Learner Gurswin Daniëls was selected for the West Coast MTB team. The beauty of this programme is that if they do well at school and cycling, when they matriculate they can get scholarships for higher education and they can join cycling clubs wherever they find themselves. Jan Faro, father of Eduardo Engelbrecht, is making the trophies: “I’m a welder and I started making trophies out of scrap metal offcuts and sculpting them into replicas of cyclists because my son Eduardo is part of the development cycling programme and he was selected for the Western Cape cycling team. He joined two years ago and I have seen a big difference in him; he now has his schoolwork and cycling on his mind.” Joshua Toontjies who is thinking of becoming a professional cyclist says: “Cycling gives me the belief that I can do better in anything I attempt. To be a good cyclist I must be disciplined and because of that I am more disciplined in my schoolwork,” he says.
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