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NEMATO ROWING CLUB

activities and pictures 2010

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Nemato Sculls Head (25th July) On Sunday 25 July we organised our annualy Nemato Sculls Head. The year it was bigger than ever before. We had clubs from Port Alfred, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown and East London: ZRC, Grey, NMMU, DSG and Claredon. Click here for results.
Birthday (16 June) On 16th June, Youth Day in South Africa, we celebrated our 4th birthday. We had a small party with a large donated birthday cake and coffee.
Sport for Social Change Network - Youth Forum (14-17 June) Our coach Chuma Nyendwana represented our organisation at the Youth Forum of the Sport for Social Change Network. The Nike and YDF sponsored event was at Soccer City in Johannesburg during the Soccer World Cup and included visits to two World Cup matches.
Holiday braai (12 June) The Soccer World Cup holiday has started. Time to celebrate. A braai and treasure hunt for our rowers, gymnasts and soccer players.
Rower Of The Year Award (9 April) The Rower Of The Year Award held in My Pond Hotel was great success. We invite rowers and the press, we selected the Runner Up as the 2nd prize, and Rower Of The Year as the 1st prize from the Rowers Of The Month. We watched the Nelson Mandela lecture speech, had lunch and prize giving. The Runner Up for year 2009 was Bongisani Magopheni and the Rower Of The Year was Ashley Backwards. Prizes were donated by Orphan Bracelet Campaign (Terry Myburgh), Nemato Rowing Club and Jan Blom.
Extending the office with a classroom (December 2009/March 2010) The Rowing Club was using a small room in an RDP house as office. There was no space for our homework class. A donor offered us building material to extend our office! We have now a classroom, an office, a kitchen and a storage room. The process of building is almost finished now, but still short of things like water, inside plastering, painting and tiling of the floor. We will finish step by step depending on donations and other funding.
South African Championships (26-28 February) The last competition of the season is SA Champs in Gauteng. We selected the most dedicated rowers who had excellent attendance all year and contributed positively to the club. These rowers were rewarded by a trip that offered much more than the rowing competition. - How about ice skating in Africa? Yes it is possible! - The national ZOO in Pretoria, a beautiful park with lots of animals from South Africa and around the world. - Gold Reef City, the place where Johannesburg and gold mining started, unfortunately the mine was closed, but there was still a lot of scary fun and our best lunch ever. - World heritage side just outside Pretoria: Cradle of Mankind. This is an area with lots of extremely fossil rich caves. We visited the very interesting Maropeng museum about the history of our planet and the development of mankind and the famous Sterkfontein caves where "Little Foot" (about 3.3 million years old) and "Mrs Ples" (about 2.7 million years old) were found.
Grey Regatta (6 February) This competition in Port Elizabeth gives our beginners a chance to experience a rowing regatta. We selected our most active beginners. Also our old rowers competed. It was nice, with many medals for our club.
Eastern Cape Championships (23 January) The first competition of the new year was the Eastern Cape Champs in East London. We arrived on Friday enjoying ourselves at the backpackers in the swimming pool, with table soccer and the pool table. The competition was on Saturday. Our winners are: - Boys Under 14 C scull: Akhona Quma - Boys Under 19 C eight: Thulani Magongo (cox), Marshall Faro, Simphiwe Zono, Masilakhe Mangele, Thembinkosi Qozi, Bongisani Magopheni, Thandolwethu Ntontela, Khanyisa Duruwe, Zolani Fandeso - Boys Under 23 quad: Mbulelo Nelson (cox), Chume Nyendwana, Lunga Vulindlu, Qhamani Qhutywa, Bulelani Zono. - Boys Under 23 A scull: Lunga Vulindlu - Boys Under 23 B scull: Tsepo Dyakala
Beginners course (January-February) We are still taking new members. Here is a session at Kiddies Beach for those who still have to learn the basics of swimming and rowing. Thanks to the donors for our Food Fund and the Soup Kitchen: no need to be hungry anymore.