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Play Sport4Life (PS4L), a Kensington-based non-profit organization, has been honoured today with the prestigious Civic Honour Award for its decade-long commitment to uplifting disadvantaged communities in Cape Town through sports. PS4L CEO and founder, Miles October, expressed his gratitude for the recognition, acknowledging the hard work put in over the past 10 years.  “It means

Cape Town South Africa – In an exhilarating end to the season, the Cape Town City Deaf Football Club (CTCDFC), supported by Play Sport4Life (PS4L), has risen to the top of the league, showcasing the remarkable talents and unwavering spirit of its players. This victory marks not just a sports triumph, but a significant milestone

Cape Town based not-for-profit body PlaySport4Life (PS4L) has been given a huge shot in the arm in delivering its programs in the needy areas after a major corporate backer threw its support behind it this week.

The Cape Town City Deaf soccer and netball teams have returned from Pretoria where they participated in a ground-breaking Deaf Awareness Tournament organised by Deaf Sport South Africa that attracted more than 200 players from across the country. Although they did not win – the home team took both titles – the players performed creditably

Maitland’s Royal Road sportsground was filled with excitement and activity as thousands converged on the venue to celebrate Heritage Day and the 85th birthday of champion local soccer team Norway Parks. Central to all the activity was a knockout soccer tournament for under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-18 players. The tournament was run by Norway Parks

Play Sport4Life inducted 24 new members into its Sports Legends Hall of Fame in a gala ceremony to acknowledge and honour their contribution as part of the Heritage Month celebrations. In front of a packed Kaleidoscope venue in Claremont, the 24 inductees – drawn from a range of sports codes including athletics, rugby, cricket, baseball

Play Sport4Life will soon be launching its latest community initiative, the annual Women’s Multi-Sport Tournament with the aim to generate greater participation of women in sport. Play Sport4Life (PS4L) is a non-profit organisation operating in the Kensington, Factreton and Maitland areas. It was established to provide opportunities for children, youth and adults to participate in

Community-based organisation Play Sport4Life, along with Fidelity Security Group and local hardware companies such as Elite Hardware and Kensington Sand and Stone, swung into action last week to re-locate a school playground that is in the middle of a vicious gang war. The good deed is part of the “67 Minutes for Mandela” initiative that

TWO OCEANS MARATHON NPC GIVES R40,000 FOR PS4L’s COMMUNITY PROJECTS IN NEEDY AREAS The Two Oceans Marathon NPC has recognised the sterling work Play Sport4Life has been doing in the disadvantaged Cape Town communities by awarding it a R40,000 grant to help with worthy projects. The founder of Play Sport4Life, Miles October, was unstinting in

TOP NETBALLERS AND SOCCER STARS SHOW OFF SKILLS AT JUNIOR TOURNAMENT Fidelity Security Services, Heart FM and Play Sport4Life’s The Football Magic Program have partnered to sponsor and coordinate a netball and football tournament for boys and girls, who play U11 and U14. The event will be held at the Phillip Lahm Sports field in

Play Sport4Life is about to launch its latest community initiative, the annual Women’s Multi-Sport Tournament. The objective of the event is to generate greater participation of females in sport. Carolyn Inglis, the Head of Operations at Play Sport4Life, said the festival would be an opportunity for everybody involved in sport to celebrate, raise awareness and

FIDELITY, PS4L FOOTBALL MAGIC PROGRAM AND HEART FM PARTNERSHIP FOR JUNE 16TH YOUTH DAY EVENT TOP NETBALLERS AND SOCCER STARS SHOW OFF SKILLS AT JUNIOR TOURNAMENT Fidelity Security Services, Heart FM and Play Sport4Life’s The Football Magic Program have partnered to sponsor and coordinate a netball and football tournament for boys and girls, who play U11

We trust that the year ahead will be a good one for everyone. We here at Play Sport4Life hope to continue the good work in the community to build on our achievements of the past 12 months. This is our fifth year in existence and our baby steps are getting bigger and our reach is

Twenty-one of Cape Town’s sports stars across nine codes from the SACOS-era were inducted into the newly established Sports Legends Hall of Fame at a function attended by more than 100 guests on Heritage Day. The stars of yesteryear were given a plaque in recognition of their contribution to sport in the disadvantaged community. Among

The much-called for Sports Legends Hall of Fame will become reality on Monday when community-based organisation, Play Sport4Life, inducts 22 sportspeople into its portals. In a deliberate acknowledgement to our past, PS4L chose Heritage Day to honour the sportspeople who were legends of their codes during the period when the South African Council on Sport

Play Sport4Life’s first annual, Women’s Day Sport Festival and Celebration, was a momentous success for women’s sports awareness and development in the Western Cape. What may have been the largest women’s youth sports gathering shows promise in leading the way for women’s sports growth. The energy was electric across Kensington High School’s field and court

Four hundred local children that were either into soccer or rugby were introduced to yoga and skateboarding as part of the Kensington Holiday Programme. “Some of the kids had tried skateboarding before, but were never given proper direction or lessons from experienced skaters. The gentlemen who came to teach the skate lessons are part of

PS4L INSTILS MADIBA VALUES IN SCHOOLCHILDREN AT 100th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Play Sport4Life has played a key role in instilling the values of Nelson Mandela to hundreds of schoolchildren who attended Madiba’s 100th birthday celebrations at The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town this past weekend. Schoolchildren from Mfuleni Primary, Dalweide Primary, Mbkweni Primary, Usibaloluntu,

They may be well past their prime, but there’s no stopping the Kensington-Factreton Soccer Legends when they don their boots and shin pads weekends to play the game of their lives. There isn’t a player under 55 years, and the oldest is in his 70s. But that doesn’t stop them playing with vim and vigour

Play Sport4Life is about to launch its latest community initiative, the Girls’ Multi-Code Sport Festival, to generate greater participation of girls and women in sport. Carolyn Inglis, the Project Manager for Play Sport4Life, said the festival would be an opportunity for everybody involved with playing, delivering, leading or working in sport to celebrate, raise awareness

Former Bafana Bafana star and now Magic FC coach, George Dearnaley, has taken the bold step of partnering the club with the community-based Play Sport4Life organisation to help develop young talent for future World Cups. The two organisations launched the exciting Football Magic Program last week with a well-attended Kwanzaa Youth Day Football Festival at

More than 400 learners in the Kensington area had something to smile about last week when they were each given a brand new pair of shows from an international shoe company. Play Sport4Life, a non-profit organisation that works in the area, was given the pleasant task of distributing the pairs of shoes to the grateful

Play Sport4Life and Maitland Giant’s coach, Connor Walsh, flew to Uganda last Thursday to help spread knowledge and love for the game of baseball and softball. Baseball is a developing sport in Uganda. It has been played for about 30 years in the East African country as against the more than 100 years in South

About 500 schoolchildren in the Factreton area had the time of their lives over Easter holiday period when they participated in the Play Sport4Life activity program. For four days, PS4L, a not-for-profit community organisation working in the area, put the schoolchildren children through their paces in a variety of sports codes to either develop their

The Western Province Disabled Football team that made it to the Disabled Games in Bloemfontein over Easter thanks to the generosity of public donations has repaid their supporters in spades – it has won the gold medal. Not only did they win gold, they went through unbeaten and now they have had seven of their

Brady Brown, age 14, is a first-degree black belt from the Kensington area. He has been training with Karate-Zen in Goodwood, since he was 7 years old. Karate-Zen was founded in 1982, by a group of dedicated Black Belt holders following the Okinawan Goju Ryu, style of karate. Brady has attended hundreds of tournaments with

THEY’RE GOING TO DISABLED GAMES Cape Town’s disabled soccer team, through incredible public generosity, has reached its R50,000 fund-raising target and will travel to Bloemfontein to compete in the National Disabled Games over the Easter weekend. The excitement of the 13 players, most of whom have a physical disability and cerebral palsy, and their coach

CASO – Caring Project: Building Communities, Social Inclusion and Health Development The CASO Project has utilized PS4L’s structure program of EduSport with great success. CASO was developed in October 2016, to place healthcare learners in community based clinical settings: teach basic healthy lifestyle principles & enhance physical activity, and education: as well as involving local

The Maitland and Kensington Primary School athletics meet in Blue Downs Stadium last week has thrown up 19 young track and field stars who will compete at the Western Province Championships and possibly make the team to compete for WP in the national event. One of the brightest on the day was Garden Village Primary’s

Sport fun for kids More than 300 learners are expected to participate in an Easter holiday programme in Kensington to coach them in cricket, netball, soccer, rugby and life skills. Play Sport4Life’s initiative from Monday 3 to Friday 7 April is part of a commitment by the organisation to promote an active lifestyle for schoolchildren

BURSARY MONEY FOR STUDENTS The Harold Cressy Charity Golf Day raised more than R60, 000.00 to bring closer to fruition the school’s new school hall project and to provide bursaries for deserving pupils. The event was held at Mowbray Course and attracted 84 golfers and hackers who each paid R2500 per 4/ball to participate in

Play Sport 4 Life (PS4L) recently held a soccer development programme in Pinelands. PS4L is a non-profit company operating in Kensington, Factreton and Maitland areas and was establish to provide opportunities for children and adults to participate in sport, and in so doing, help them become healthier, more respinsible citizens in their communities. Click on

PlaySport4Life in Kensington got youngsters into a sporting mood during the school holidays last week.  The organisation hosted some fun days to introduce hockey and softball to some of the youngsters in the area at the 14th Avenue sports ground. Click on image to read the full article >>

Centenary celebrations are warming up at St John’s Primary School in Kensington, with a spectacular sports day to set things off. The school has organised a gala athletics day at Green Point Stadium next month as part of the school’s events programme to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Click on image to read the full article

Athletics action is coming to the city to honour a star of yesteryear and pay tribute to some heroes of the past. The gala schools athletics meet will be staged at Green Point Athletics on Tuesday April 12 to honour the memory of star sprinter Kenny Roman, who died recently, as well as recognising the

The push is on again to make hockey a dynamic winter sport in the Kensington-Factreton-Maitland (KFM) area and to discover the sport’s stars of tomorrow. Close to 300 schoolchildren in the area gave up their leisure time last week to participate in a three-day Play Sport4Life holiday hockey programme. Click on image to read the

Close Call: There was some exciting athletic action at the Green Point Athletics Track when the first Kenny Roman Memorial for meet for high schools was held on Tuesday 12 April. Organised by the Play Sport4Life organisation from Kensington, the event also honoured former sports legends an it set to become an annual event. Click

With the celebration of the first Kenny Roman Memorial Day at Green Point today (Tuesday) 20 Cape Town athletics legends will be inducted into a Hall of Fame. Click on image to read the full article >>

Play Sport 4 Life (PS4L) and Factreton Primary School hosted a Mini Cricket World Cup Final and Fun Run/Walk event on 21 March at the 14th Avenue Sport Complex in Kensington. Click on image to read the full article >>

I took Kenny in as a son and he lived at my house in Athlone. He excelled in 100m but also ran well in the 200m. “Outside of the regular training on the track, I also taught him ballroom dancing. I felt that my athletes needed to have rhythm and be loose – and thought

As South Africa’s current crop of Olympic hopefuls put their final touched on their preparations for this year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro, a group of former athletes gathered at Green Point athletics track to honour Kenny Roman.. Click on image to read the full article >>

A few weeks ago Aayesha Kleinsmith’s dream of representing South Africa at the World Karate Federation Championships in Indonesia seemed impossible. Now, with the help of Play Sport4Life (PS4L), that dream has come true. Click on image to read the full article >>

Centenary celebrations are warming up at St. John’s Primary School in Kensington, with a spectacular sports day to set things off. The school has organised a gala athletics day at Green Point Athletics Stadium next month as part of the school’s events programme to celebrate its 100th birthday. The event, titled “School Olympics”, will be

The push is on again to make hockey a dynamic winter sport in the Kensington-Factreton-Maitland area and to discover the sport’s stars of tomorrow. Close to 300 schoolchildren in the area gave up their leisure time last week to participate in a three-day Play Sport4Life holiday hockey programme. Under the guiding eye of former hockey

Multrees Investor Services Goes Live with DigitaThe inaugural Play Sport4Life Charity Golf Day at Mowbray on Friday “aced” it as a fund-raising event with about 100 golfers raising more than R50, 000 for community projects in Kensington, Factreton and Maitland. In near-perfect conditions, teams of four played their rounds and then gathered at the “19th

Play Sport4Life, the dynamic non-profit organisation operating in the Kensington-Factreton-Maitland areas, is holding it first Charity Golf Day on November 20 to raise funds for community sports projects in the neighbourhood. The event will be held at the Mowbray Golf Club and Play Sport4Life is finalising negotiations with a few celebrity South African sports personalities

A few weeks ago Aayesha Kleinsmith’s dream of representing South Africa at the World Karate Federation Championships in Jakarta, Indonesia this November seemed impossible. Now, with the assistance of Play Sport4Life, that dream has materialised. Aayesha is a first-year Sports Science student at the University of the Western Cape and a junior nidan (second degree

South Africa’s team at the Homeless World Cup, proudly supported by the PlaySport4Life organisation, has gotten off to a flier in Amsterdam, winning its first two match against Namibia and Belgium on Saturday and Sunday by comfortable margins. Playing in the specially designed kit provided by sponsors PlaySport4Life and Streamline Agencies, they beat Namibia 7-2

Did we find the next Neymar, or Messi, or Ronaldo in Maitland at the weekend? Quite possibly. More than 400 budding young football players aged between 7 and 11 from Saxon Rovers, Norway Parks, Kensington AFC, Lifezone Soccer, Ruiterwacht AFC, Grassboots FC, AW litho FC and YMO St Lukes participated in this year’s Community Football

On Saturday, 15th August, Play Sport 4 Life held their weekly community football development progamme in Pinelands, Cape Town. Despite the cold and wet weather conditions, players, parents and spectators arrived in good spirits ready for kick off. The purpose of the initiative is to unite communities through sport as well as getting children off

This past Saturday the Play Sport 4 Life community football development initiative was hosted by YMO St. Lukes Football Club in Walmer Estate. You could tell from the start of the day that it was going to be filled with excitement, competitive kids and plenty of talent. With PS4L focusing on the wellbeing of children

Sport fun for kids More than 300 learners are expected to participate in an Easter holiday programme in Kensington to coach them in cricket, netball, soccer, rugby and life skills. Play Sport4Life’s initiative from Monday 3 to Friday 7 April is part of a commitment by the organisation to promote an active lifestyle for schoolchildren

Play Sport4Life, a new sport for development venture, based in the Kensington/Factreton/Maitland areas, organised the Maitland Giants Baseball Club Reunion where several of the club’s former greats were inducted into the club’s newly established Hall of Fame. The evening was well attended and saw former players from many eras get together for the first time.

PS4L has sponsored the Kenfac Phillies Softball Club with new kit for the ladies 1st and 2nd Teams who made the 2014 knockout final. PS4L is gearing up to provide strength and conditioning coaching for the team in the build up to the new season and will embark on creating a schools softball league in

The Norway Parks Athletic Football Club was established in 1934 and took its name from Norway Road in Maitland. Before the formation of the club, young men from the immediate vicinity formed informal teams and challenged others coming from the surrounding areas of Kensington, Windermere, Garden Village and Brooklyn to matches on Sunday afternoons. Today

Play Sport 4 Life (PS4L) recently held a soccer development programme in Pinelands. PS4L is a non-profit company operating in Kensington, Factreton and Maitland areas and was establish to provide opportunities for children and adults to participate in sport, and in so doing, help them become healthier, more respinsible citizens in their communities.