{"id":51071,"date":"2014-01-02T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51071\/ekurhulenis-2013-sports-awards-nominations-now-openorsports-awards-coming-upor\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T10:35:31","slug":"ekurhulenis-2013-sports-awards-nominations-now-openorsports-awards-coming-upor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/01\/02\/ekurhulenis-2013-sports-awards-nominations-now-openorsports-awards-coming-upor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports awards coming up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nominations for the 2013 Ekurhuleni Sports Awards are now open and individuals, clubs and organisations are invited to submit their candidates for the awards before or on February 3, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The year 2014 will mark the third year of the Ekurhuleni Sports Awards and March 14 is set to be a spectacular occasion.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Spearheaded by the metro, the awards seek to recognise sporting excellence in the region and to reward those who represent Ekurhuleni nationally as amateur or professional sportsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the likes of paralympic athlete Samkelo Radebe, South African hockey player Bernadette Coston, wrestler Adem Digovich and former Springbok rugby player Lawrence Sephaka received accolades at a glittering ceremony held at Emperor&#8217;s Palace.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Sportsmen and women who reside in Ekurhuleni or are members of an Ekurhuleni-based sports club or school may be nominated for their outstanding sporting achievements during the period starting January 1 to December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The categories for nominations are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sportsman of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sportswoman of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Outstanding Sport Official\/Administrator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sportsman of the Year (people with disabilities).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sportswoman of the Year (people with disabilities).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Junior Sportsman of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Junior Sportswoman of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Special Merit Award (including posthumously).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Coach of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Team of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sport Federation of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Secondary Sport School of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Primary Sport School of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sports Fan of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nominations must be submitted on an official nomination form, complete with a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) and motivation, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>These may be submitted at the following Ekurhuleni Sport and Recreation offices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sport and Recreation head office &#8211; First Floor, Hanover Square Building A, corner Hendrik Potgieter Street and Eighth Avenue, Edenvale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sport and Recreation office at Germiston Stadium &#8211; Delville Road North, Germiston.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sport and Recreation Northern regional office &#8211; Plane Road, Kempton Park.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Sport and Recreation East regional office &#8211; Room 117, First Floor, Springs Civic Centre, Springs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><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='e6bd889d5bb3c383e918c7cc6daff45b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni&#8217;s 2013 Sports Awards nominations now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,11,3],"tags":[1003,2549,979,1119],"class_list":["post-51071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-sports-awards","tag-germiston","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","ekurhuleni sports awards","germiston","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51071","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=51071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}