Upcoming events for the JAG Sports and Education Foundation
9th March Cape Argus Cycle Tour
35,000 cyclists – the world’s largest individually timed cycling event. The JAG Sports and Education Foundation Entries received 20 entries which have been distributed amongst development, office and celebrity riders who will represent the Foundation. Watch out for the JAG tops on the way!
22nd March Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
Annual, incredibly scenic marathon. JAG will be supporting Daz – the miracle runner! Daz has cerebral palsy and it is a wander that he even walks! Daz will be running to raise funds for the JAG Foundation.
JAG Foundation will also be offering water and physio’s support from a site spot in Hout Bay as well as having a presence at the finish line.
It’s guaranteed to be a fun filled and exciting morning; we hope you will be a part of it!
28th March to 5th April Absa Cape Epic
9 days. 1200 cyclists. 950km. 18000m of climbing.
This year we are proud to announce that reigning Marathon World Champion, Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander, South African and African XC Champion, will ride as a team in the Cape Epic and raise funds for an initiative that Christoph has started called songo.info. This years funds will be to the benefit of the JAG foundation’s BMX trust in Kayamandi.
15th May The JAG Sports and Education Foundation “Year In Review” Function
Celebrating a year since the launch of our Foundation. The event will showcase our achievements to date, an international guest speaker – Nick Farr Jones and a fundraising element. The event by invitation only.
12th July Knysna Half Marathon
JAG team will run the race in support of the Foundation.
Past Events
JAG Foundation supports Trafalgar High School Touch Rugby World Champions – 28 November 2007, District Six
The JAG Sports and Education Foundation is honored to once again sponsor Trafalgar High School’s touch rugby teams to take part in this years tour to Malaysia for the High School Touch Rugby World Championships.
Trafalgar High’s boy’s team won last year in Singapore. The JAG Foundation joined the players and MEC Cameron Dugmore for a farewell press conference at the school on 28th November. We saw the teams off at the airport and are eagerly awaiting their return.
Mr. Hendricks has assured the teams that this year there will be a strong educational aspect to the tour. He says, ‘I know that we will win; Trafalgar is renowned for sport. This year I want the children to learn from their experience to the East. They are all studying tourism and my belief is that travel provides the best opportunity to learn and grow.’
Our mission at JAG is to encourage a sense of pride and belonging in young, previously disadvantaged people. Our mission was fulfilled by the enthusiasm and commitment of both the school and the players. Their winning success last year was a bonus.
JAG Foundation joines forces with Western Province Cricket Association in celebrating 120 years of Newlands – Youth Day 26 October 2007, Newlands
Newlands cricket stadium is celebrating its 120th anniversary this season.
The Western Province Cricket Association has a packed programme for the birthday celebrations. Any funds raised will contribute to upgrading the stadium, acquiring a new scoreboard, regressing the pitch and upgrading the outfield. The first official event commencing birthday celebrations was Newlands Youth Day on Friday October 26.
The event was a mini-cricket day with 1200 to 1500 children taking part. Children came from schools throughout the Peninsula – including children from special needs schools. The children attended Mini Bakers cricket coaching clinic with Cape Cobras players as coachers.
JAG Foundation provided transport for 200 children on its Mighty Metres programme from primary schools in Stellenbosch, Lavender Hill and Botenheuwel to come and join the day of fun and games at the Nelwands Grounds.
2007 Health of the Nation, 50 Hours Sports Challenge – 14 September 2007, Rondebosch
In order to continue on from the Health of the Nation research project and the success of the inaugural challenge, Sporting Chance hosted the second annual HEALTH OF THE NATION: 50 HOUR SPORTS CHALLENGE in Western Province Cricket Club in Rondebosch. Spread over three days ( Fri to Sunday) the event attracted 3000 children participants
The event involved non stop sports for 50 hours with up to twelve sport codes being played simultaneously and ensuring that the ballnever came to a stand still – i.e. “keeping the ball alive”.
The official bodies from the City of Cape Town who supported the event include: The Department of Sport and Recreation, the Department of Health, the Department of Education and the Department of Community Safety.
The primary objective was to show children the importance of physical activity in building a positive future and to provide everyone with an equal opportunity whilst participating in a non-elitist and fun environment.
The JAG Sports & Education Foundation supported the event with a 1km Mighty Metres track and enabled a number of children from Mighty Metres schools in to come and join the challenge. Each participant received a goodie bag and a t-shirt.
JAG Sports and Education Official Launch in the Eastern Cape- 26 July 2007, East London
On 26 July 2007 The JAG Sports and Education Foundation proudly launched in the Eastern Cape, at an official launch ceremony at the Oster Hotel in East London.
Evert Ferreira, former Boland and Border provincial cricketer has been appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation in the Eastern Cape.
“There is a tremendous need in the Eastern Cape area for introducing extended sports activities into the school curriculum, and I am proud to be part of making that difference together with such a dynamic organization as the JAG Foundation.”
With the assistance of Meyer and the JAG Foundation team Ferreira will be responsible for implementation of Mighty Metres running programme into the schools in the Eastern Cape. The Mighty Metres programme has been successfully launched in the Western Cape area earlier this year and to date has attracted over 9000 young primary school learners.
The Pick ‘n Pay Weekend Argus Rotary Knysna Cycle Tour – 07 July 2007, Knysna
The child cycling in the photo is Jason Botha, the son of Tina Botha. Together with a couple of JAG members Jason took part in the cycling challenge during the annual Oyster Festival week in July in Knysna.
Jason is 11 years old and he lost his brother, Chris Corlett, to leukaemia in September 2000. In the memory of her beloved son, Chris, Tina Botha started up the Sunflower Fund in 1999.
The Sunflower Fund aims to educate and recruit a viable source of well informed potential bone marrow stem cell donors who are ethnically diverse, in an effort to save the lives of those needing a transplant when suffering from life-threatening blood disorders. It strives to maintain the associated donor records of the South African Bone Marrow Registry.
www.sunflowerfund.org.zaJAG Snapshot Soccer Challenge – 16 & 17 June 2007, Cape Town
On 16 and 17 June 2007 JAG Sports and Education Foundation joined the organizers of the soccer themed event, promoting a Father’s Day Celebration in the Waterfront Craft Market & Wellness Centre.
Over the weekend JAG Sports and Education Foundation hosted”SNAPSHOT “ – a mini soccer goal scoring challenge where kids competed for the highest score.
On Saturday JAG ran 5 challenges with 40 kids in total. On Sunday 32 kids participated.
JAG Foundation hosted this challenge in partnership with Let’s Play. The soccer balls used by the contestants were donated by JAG in support of the Let’s Play a Million Campaign.
JAG Legacy Cup- 28 & 29 April 2007, Cape Town
JAG Sports and Education Foundation and Pro-active Living joined forces in putting together a new football initiative for the Western Cape called the JAG Legacy Challenge. The JAG Legacy Challenge, proudly sponsored by the JAG Sports and Education Foundation, acts as a selection tournament to a greater initiative to be known as the Cape Legacy Cup, which is designed to raise the profile of football in the Western Cape and offer amateur and semi-professional footballers from the area the opportunity to display their skills against some of South Africa’s top Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams, and potentially host international teams in the future.
The tournament was held at the Reddam House sports fields in Greenpoint on the 28th and 29th of April. In the final Kuils River succumbed to the Ekasi Eleven 3-0.
A squad of 26 players, including two U19 players, was selected to represent the Legacy All Stars team. The squad will undergo 6 weeks of Life skills training facilitated by Macsteel Maestros at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town, and each player will be profiled in the media. A team will then be selected from the squad to play in a tournament against three of South Africa’s top PSL teams – still to be announced – at the Newlands Stadium on the 15th July 2007 in front of a mass audience.
The objectives of this initiative leading up to 2010 are to:
• Mobilize grassroots communities in a positive way
•Highlight football talent in the Western Cape communities
•Raise the profiles of talented young players
•Unite the communities of the Western Cape through football
•Create a Match Day culture for football in the Western Cape
•Bring to light the destitute communities and clubs that these players come from.
Proudly Manenberg – 15 April 2007, Cape Town
On Sunday 15 April 2007 JAG Foundation sponsored the Proudly Manenberg OutReach Day at the St. Augustine’s Cricket Club. The event run from 9am till 2pm and brought smiles to a number of children as well as the JAG members who ended up competing against eachother in a game of cricket.
The event was a part of St Augustine’s commitment towards reaching out to working class communities who do not have the necessary cricket resources and facilities. St. Augustine’s has a longstanding and rich relationship with Manenberg especially in relation to its former Western Province Cricket Board President Hassan Howa who worked tirelessly with the St. Augustine Cricket Club and in particular its former President and Deputy to Howa at the time, Paul Saville, in establishing cricket in Manenberg.
The event came at a time when Manenberg is engaged in a process of transformation and Proudly Manenberg welcomes St. Augustine’s willingness to contribute towards building a new Manenberg through sport.
The parties hope that this initiative will become an annual event which will rotate from community to community and will contribute towards building cricket and sport as an alternative to social decay and also to perpetuate non-racialism between communities.
The details of the event included:
*Six-a-Side cricket matches between teams from Manenberg, Gugulethu, Bishop Lavis, Bonteheuwel, Khayelitsha, Mandalay and Mitchells Plain
*Mini-cricket tournament for youth of the areas identified above
*Western Province Cricket Association provided specialized coaching by Cobras players.
Two Oceans Marathon – 07 April 2007, Cape Town
The JAG Foundation sponsored top female runners from Kenya in the Two Oceans half marathon- Tegla Loroupe and Kenyan warrior woman Eliza Lopilale. Tegla achieved an easy 5th place finish in 1hour 17 minutes, whilst Johannes Vlok (Vlokkie) from the JAG Investment Group, finished his 21km challenge in 1hour 43mins.
On the other side of the mountain in Hout Bay, the JAG Foundation team, together with volunteers from Trafalgar High School, District Six, Cape Town, manned the 19th water hole (38.5km) on the ultra marathon route. Much fun was had by all the volunteers, whilst offering much needed support to the runners who still had an arduous route ahead of them.
Two Oceans Fun Run – 06 April 2007, UCT Campus, Cape Town
Forty two Kayamandi Jag runners took part in the Two Oceans Fun Run. They were thrilled to be the part of such a big event and performed very well, with many of the runners in the leading pack. The children, all between 7 and 11 years old, ran the 2,5 km event. They all ran barefoot on the road, but truly enjoyed the experience. They will continue with their training program over the holiday period, starting with a winter phase. Elana Meyer, who overlooks children’s performance, stated: “I am very proud of this group of children who matured to a committed group of runners. Special thanks for the financial assistance from JAG, the buses provided by SCAS, coaching by Songo and all the volunteers involved. A next goal would be to get shoes for the little runners to make it easier when they take part in events on the hard surfaces.”
The participation in the Two Oceans Fun Run was also expressed by JAG and JAG Sports Foundation members, who performed 5 and 8km run.
JAG Sports and Education Official Launch – 03 April 2007, Arabella Sheraton, Cape Town
On Tuesday 3 April 2007 the JAG Investment Group officially launched the JAG Sports and Education Foundation. The launch took place in the Grand Ballroom of the Arabella Sheraton in Cape Town in the presence of nearly 300 guests including International and South African sporting personalities, representatives of SA government, representatives of various International and South African charity organizations as well as members of the press.
During the event on 03 April 2007 further two official announcements were made. First announcement referred to the JAG Foundation sponsorship of JAG Boland Rugby Institute. Read the official press release
Second announcement referred to JAG’s sponsorship of Western Province amateur cricket. Read the official press release
Khayamandi Open Evening – 27 March 2007, Khayamandi, Cape Town
The purpose of the open evening in Kayamandi was to show the community what JAG Sports & Education are doing in their community with the kids. The objective of this evening was also to involve the parents of the JAG runners and to encourage them to be part of the program. The turnout was great as the event attracted around 300 parents and members of the local community
Khulani Soccer – 21 March 2007, Muizenberg, Cape Town
Celebrating Human Rights Day – Wednesday 21 March – Sunrise Beach Muizenberg was the venue for the 3rd annual Khulani Beach Soccer Festival, supported this year by JAG Sport and Education Foundation – where once again Sporting Chance facilitated 320 children from Cape Town communities playing the beautiful game.
Khulani (meaning ‘to grow and prosper’) had children between the ages of 10 and 12 transported to the beach, divided into teams of 8 according to age and assigned a coach and sent out to play on the demarcated pitches along the shoreline.
Taking honours in the under 10 age group were “Brazil” from Langa, and another Langa team, “Langa United”, took the title in the under 11 age group. The “senior” winners of the Khulani Beach Soccer Festival 2007, in the under 12 age group, were “Man United” from Khayelitsha!
Once the day’s play was over – the children gathered for a final vibe session and the prize giving, where they were given a talk on safety and security, as well as HIV/AIDS information. As they departed, they were given lunch and a goodie bag – taking home with them memories of sand sliding tackles, striking goals, and loads of fun in the warm South African sun!
This was the 3rd Khulani Soccer event organized by the Sporting Chance and the success of this event is leading towards this festival being expanded to include other regions of South Africa.
Two Oceans Fun Run – 10 March 2007, Khayelitsha
Thirty five kids from Khayamandi, who have been on the JAG running program since January, traveled to Khayelitsha on the 10th of March to take part in the Old Mutual Fun Run Challenge. It was a great opportunity to take part in their first event as a team of JAG runners. They all performed with great enthusiasm and did their best. There were a couple of good performances, but the real success was that they all participated with the right spirit. The next event will be the 6th of April the Two Oceans Fun run in Cape Town.
‘For the sake of our lives’ Campaign – 26 February 2007 – 09 March 2007
‘For the sake of our lives’ Campaign – 26 February 2007 – 09 March 2007 at various locations within Cape Town
As a separate project we also supported the campaign “FOR THE SAKE OF OUR LIVES!” in conjunction with the Department of Education, Western Cape Education MEC Cameron Dugmore, SA 1,500m record holder Johan Landsman and about 30 learners. For 2 weeks from 26 February to 09 March 2007 we ran from school to school starting at Modderdam through Langa, Athlone to Khayelitsha. We passed a symbolic baton of peace and friendship on to fellow pupils at every school we visited. The run started from 07h00 from the schools and was an occasion of camaraderie every day we passed on messages of hope and inspiration to the young learners and encouraged them to play sport and to have a healthy body and mind.
“This campaign uses sport as a vehicle for community development, as sport goes hand in hand with safety and security, health, education, nutrition and other related issues,” commented Elana Meyer, the Executive Director of JAG Sports and Education Foundation. view images
Khayamandi Running Clinic – 16 February 2007, Stellenbosch
50 runners from Khayamandi took part in a running clinic conducted by Elana Meyer and Tegla Loroupe.
Tegla Loroupe was received with open hands and hearts. She talked to the kids, ran with them and patiently answered all the questions. She left with the promise that she will return.
Tegla Loroupe’s visit to Khayamandi was an absolute highlight. The kids loved the interaction with Tegla and were fascinated to hear from all her Sporting performances. She told them stories about Kenya and her background and filled the young children with hope and inspiration. Then we moved over to action and Tegla ran with the kids around their field.
They were all sad when it was time for her to leave, but she promised that she will be back in April.
Every week the JAG Khayamandi runners meet on a Monday, Wednesday and
Thursday and train for an hour.
The event was sponsored by the JAG Sports and Education Foundation and commenced the cycle of Khayamandi running clinics. The children participants were each given a T-shirt after regular participation in the training clinic sessions held since the beginning of January 2007. view images
Tegla Loroupe Peace Race, Kapenguria – 18 November 2006
Elana Meyer, SA Olympic Medal Holder and Mike Finch, the editor of Runner’s World flew to Kenya, at the invitation of Tegla Loroupe, to represent JAG Sports and Education Foundation during the annual Tegla Loroupe Peace Run in Kapenguria, Kenya.
Tegla Loroupe was the World Half Marathon Champion for a number of years and is now the President of her foundation in Kenya. JAG are assisting Tegla build a school in Kapenguria in North West Kenya where sport will play an important role in bringing about peace and growth. Tegla’s Foundation organizes and holds runs to promote peace and development in troubled areas and she has been recognized internationally as a Peace Ambassador. view images