Budding netball players of about 30 primary schools in the Free State have ample chance to showcase their talent when representing their schools in a mini netball festival in Gauteng, the Free State and Western Cape.
The event started on 15 April, with the Free State hosting three festivals of 18 in total this year. Gauteng will host ten and the Western Cape five.
The competition is a partnership between South African Schools Netball (SASN) and title sponsor Pep.
Known as the Pep Mini Netball Festival, it is affording scores of budding girl stars between the ages of eight and ten the opportunity to launch their sporting careers.
“With our commitment to caring for the communities in which we operate, we believe we have found a sport and partner that shares the same ethos of encouraging self-belief in our communities,” said Beyers van der Merwe, chief marketing officer of Pep.
He said the store was further extending its community reach to young girls through this initiative, which envisages giving schools netball a much-needed boost and promote the sport.
Di Woolley, president of the SASN, said the valued partnership would bolster the sporting body’s efforts and their mandate of comprehensively developing schools netball across South Africa.
