South Africa – Page 4 – Play Handball

Interview with Thabang Mphatoe from our partner orgaisation SCORE. He is working beside others as a handball coach at the Franschhoek Valley Community Sport Centre. When and how did your relationship with Play Handball SA start? I got to know Play Handball in 2017. We had a volunteer from Play Handball based at our community […]

Interview with Thabang from Franschhoek Community Sport Centre

Community, South Africa,

Interview with Thabang Mphatoe from our partner orgaisation SCORE. He is working beside others as a handball coach at the Franschhoek Valley Community Sport Centre.

When and how did your relationship with Play Handball SA start?

I got to know Play Handball in 2017. We had a volunteer from Play Handball based at our community sport centre. In this year we went with our team as well to the Supercup in Cape Town. At the handball tournament we got lots of information about environmental awareness and as well learned new things about coaching. After he left, I took over as a coach and that where the relationship between me and Play Handball started. (more…)

Play Handball Supercup series in its third year – With Handball active for the sustainable development goal 13 “Climate Action” of the United Nations Germany is co-organiser of the Handball World Championship in January. Two years later, in 2021, the World Championship will be hosted on the African continent. After 1999 in Egypt and 2005 […]

Supercup inspires over 450 children in Africa

Kenya, South Africa, Supercup,

Play Handball Supercup series in its third year – With Handball active for the sustainable development goal 13 “Climate Action” of the United Nations

Germany is co-organiser of the Handball World Championship in January. Two years later, in 2021, the World Championship will be hosted on the African continent. After 1999 in Egypt and 2005 in Tunisia, Egypt will host the World Cup for the second time.

The Play Handball Supercup series is still a long way from such a big tournament, but this year, there was a new pleasing development. In 2018, the tournament was played not only in South Africa but also for the first time in Kenya. The basic orientation has not changed. The Play Handball Supercup is and remains the first tournament series in Africa that combines sport with education and environmental protection. The motto is: More than handball! (more…)

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa. After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in […]

With Handball active for a climate change – Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Delft, Cape Town

South Africa, Supercup,

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 27^th of October 2018 at Hindle Road Primary School, Delft, Cape Town, South Africa. (more…)

Play Handball Supercup 2018 in Benoni

Community, Event, South Africa, Supercup,

Using Sport to raise awareness for Climate Change! The PLAY HANDBALL Supercup is unique in its kind and is the first Handball & Environmental Tournament Series in South Africa.

After two successful annual events in 2016 & 2017, with over a thousand children reached from both Cape Town and Johannesburg, PLAY HANDBALL ZA (PHZA), in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the PLAY HANDBALL Supercup 2018 on the 20^th of October 2018 at the Sinaba Sports Stadium, Daveyton, Gauteng. (more…)

Link to article: Benoni City Times, publication 22-10-2018 The Play Handball Supercup came to Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium on October 20. It is the first handball and environmental tournament series in South Africa. Hosted by Play Handball ZA, teams competed in an u-14 mixed-team tournament as well as preformed various environmental tasks on the day.

Super handball action at the Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton

Community, Event, South Africa, Supercup, Tournaments,

Link to article: Benoni City Times, publication 22-10-2018

The Play Handball Supercup came to Daveyton’s Sinaba Stadium on October 20. It is the first handball and environmental tournament series in South Africa. Hosted by Play Handball ZA, teams competed in an u-14 mixed-team tournament as well as preformed various environmental tasks on the day.

Sum will be divided among three charity organisations / “Aufwind Mannheim” gets the main share / Other two winners are Play Handball and Right to Play/ Support from Rhein-Neckar Löwen, fans and team partner Suzuki Around 30,000 euros: This is the amount that the joint donation campaign by Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz […]

Donation Campaign of Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz brings about 30 000 Euro

Fundraising, Others, South Africa,

Sum will be divided among three charity organisations / “Aufwind Mannheim” gets the main share / Other two winners are Play Handball and Right to Play/ Support from Rhein-Neckar Löwen, fans and team partner Suzuki

Around 30,000 euros: This is the amount that the joint donation campaign by Rhein-Neckar Löwen and Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz brought in. The former Leuven star, who moved to Paris St. Germain on 1 July 2018, had declared during his comeback in the jersey of the DHB Cup winner that he wanted to donate the three monthly salaries he would receive as a result of his return to good causes. (more…)

“I play Handball already my entire life. It means friendship, social values and just fun to me.“ Matti volunteered for 5 months at “PLAY HANDBALL ZA” in Cape Town. He taught handball at two schools, the public primary school St. Mary’s and the German school in the afternoon area. In Cape Town he lived with […]

Interview with the volunteer Matti Schubert

South Africa, Volunteer,

“I play Handball already my entire life. It means friendship, social values and just fun to me.“

Matti volunteered for 5 months at “PLAY HANDBALL ZA” in Cape Town. He taught handball at two schools, the public primary school St. Mary’s and the German school in the afternoon area. In Cape Town he lived with a family from Zimbabwe in Woodstock. (more…)

Link to the article on news24 Learners from Lavender Hill will now be able to play handball thanks to a German volunteer who has dedicated his time to teaching the learners the sport.

Learners embrace new sport

South Africa, Volunteer,

Link to the article on news24

Learners from Lavender Hill will now be able to play handball thanks to a German volunteer who has dedicated his time to teaching the learners the sport. (more…)

Piketberg is a farming community on the Cape-Namibia-Route. There are only limited activities for kids after school available. In January 2018 we introduced the first time handball at a children sports day to the community.

Handball is a new sport in the farming area of Piketberg

Event, South Africa,

Piketberg is a farming community on the Cape-Namibia-Route. There are only limited activities for kids after school available. In January 2018 we introduced the first time handball at a children sports day to the community. (more…)

Saturday in Stellenbosch, Idas Valley, you can hear excited voices in the near distance, loud music and now and then the sound of a whistle. If one expects to see now netball or soccer, one will be surprised: The first ever PLAY HANDBALL Junior Cup took place on Saturday, the 24th February 2018 from 9am […]

First ever PLAY HANDBALL Junior Cup in Stellenbosch

Event, South Africa,

Saturday in Stellenbosch, Idas Valley, you can hear excited voices in the near distance, loud music and now and then the sound of a whistle. If one expects to see now netball or soccer, one will be surprised: The first ever PLAY HANDBALL Junior Cup took place on Saturday, the 24^th February 2018 from 9am to 4pm in Stellenbosch. (more…)

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