{"id":141625,"date":"2017-01-17T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141625\/get-involved-in-a-sport-this-year\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T12:03:53","slug":"get-involved-in-a-sport-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/01\/17\/get-involved-in-a-sport-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Get involved in a sport this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the New Year and many residents are looking for a fun way to get active.<\/p>\n<p>Why not join a sports team, as Germiston is full of fun and exciting sports clubs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a guide to several clubs in the area and how you can get in touch for more information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wrestling:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Raptors Wrestling Club; call Dewald de Wet on 083 611 7169, or Hannes van der Merwe on 082 805 7229.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Elsburg Wrestling Club; call Jaco Kriel on 082 326 0516, or Roenel de Jager on 079 892 7606.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Athletics:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germiston Callies Harriers; call Les Black on 082 552 7866.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Football:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luso Africa Football Club; call Joe Da Silva on 083 700 7914, or Paula Martins on 083 504 3497.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston City Football Club; call Peter Oliver on 076 431 2391.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rugby:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germiston Simmer Rugby Club; call Hester Theunissen on 078 700 9893.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg Eagles Junior Rugby Club; call Tyron Smuts on 083 285 9470.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg Rugby Club; call the club on 083 407 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Bears Rugby League Club; call Andries van der Merwe on 076 565 0483 or email to andries.supey@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pool:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsburg Eagles Pool Club; call Wally van Rhyn on 071 921 4898, or Grant Pullen on 076 365 3161.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mixed material arts, kick-boxing and karate:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tebbutt\u2019s Mixed Martial Arts Academy; call Alex Tebbutt on 082 925 9751.<\/p>\n<p>Nippon Dojo Shotokan Karate Club; call Sensei Goran Stankovic on 082 666 6789.<\/p>\n<p>Katlehong\u2019s Shorin Kempo Karate Club; call Thulane Sibisi on 083 599 5916 or email thulane2005@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Germiston Karate Centre; call Elmarie van Zyl on 082 934 4670, or Sampie van Zyl on 083 277 3432.<\/p>\n<p>Kaizen Judo Club; call Ernest Louw on 082 722 9088.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cricket:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Germiston City Cricket Club; call Linton Cox on 082 829 4051 or David Ungerer on 082 885 6351.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club; call Martiens Grobler on 079 520 3642 or email to martiens@copalcor.co.za, or call Des Thorpe on 083 268 8382.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rowing, canoeing and sailing:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Victoria Lake Club; call 011 825-3530 or 011 873-9300 or email manager@victorialakeclub.co.za.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Boxing:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsburg Boxing Academy; call William Fryer on 083 276 0844 or Jan Meyer on 076 031 5895.<\/p>\n<p>With the variety of sport available in Germiston, there&#8217;s no reason not to get active this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are a local sports club in Germiston, please email all your details to the Germiston City News on germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za, leighh@caxton.co.za or pulengs@caxton.co.za.<\/strong><\/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='c90b8895e4f5a16d64558d6b09618391'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guide to the sports clubs of Germiston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":131643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,6040,2362,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-141625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-local-sports-news","tag-south-africa","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","Local Sports News","South Africa","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141625","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}