{"id":109081,"date":"2015-12-27T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=109081"},"modified":"2015-12-25T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:56:01","slug":"109081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/12\/27\/109081\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting highlights for November and December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the local sports clubs and athletes are on recess until next year, but this is how some of them performed in November and October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>November:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>For the third consecutive year Henri Schoeman and Andrea Steyn took the top honours at the Standard Bank 5150 Ekurhuleni African Championship held at Germiston Lake. Schoeman and Steyn both successfully defended their respective men\u2019s and women\u2019s titles.<\/li>\n<li>Tebbutts Mixed Martial Arts Academy\u2019s head coach and founder of the club, Master Alex Tebbutt, scooped an accolade. Tebbutt (66) recently received his Hinshi Eighth Dan International Diploma from Japan.<\/li>\n<li>Marlands\u2019 footballer, Ricardo Susanna (18), received honours for soccer at school.<\/li>\n<li>Ekurhuleni Tennis School of Excellence (ETSOE) players took part in the Gauteng East Junior Tennis Tournament final, at the Lakeside Tennis Courts in Benoni. The club\u2019s Lethabo Bapela placed first and was crowned the boys u-11 singles tennis champion for 2015. Tadiwanashe Chipfakacha, also from ETSOE, also placed first and was named the girls u-15 singles champion for 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>December:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Industrial Soccer League (ISL) rounded off their eight-month long league at Hattingh Park.<\/li>\n<li>Shorin Kempo Karate Club\u2019s Mbali Msomi and Rethabile Tshabalala took first places in their respective divisions at the Matshushima Kyokushin Karate Tournament, in Swaziland.<\/li>\n<li>Solheim\u2019s Christelle Grobler was crowned the inter-provincial champion for shot put and discus at the Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA)\u2019s Inter-Provincial Sub-Youth Track and Field Championships at the Germiston Stadium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>You might also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/106268\/golfers-raise-funds-for-jordan\/\">Golfers raise funds for Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/106484\/al-clad-takes-isl-honours\/\">Al-Clad takes ISL honours<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='ea1036cfa123c811ec89c99aeacceea5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick look at some of 2015\u2019s sporting thrills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":109029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,11,3],"tags":[1106,979,969,3364,8057,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-109081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-sport","tag-germiston-sports","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Sport","Germiston sports","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}