{"id":77285,"date":"2014-12-19T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/77285\/enter-your-children-now\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:08:36","slug":"enter-your-children-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/12\/19\/enter-your-children-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter your children now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro, in partnership with the Gauteng Sports and Recreation Department, calls upon all pre-schools around the metro to register for the 2015 Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games.<\/p>\n<p>The games, scheduled for March next year, are vital for the wellness of the toddlers during the early developmental stages.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The games enable us to inculcate the love of sports, healthy living and prepare the children for a brighter future in sports as well as to build their confidence in competitions,&#8221; said the metro&#8217;s spokesman, Themba Gadebe.<\/p>\n<p>Each pre-school is required to register a team of ten participants consisting of five boys and five girls, between the ages of five and six years.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Registration for the competition is compulsory and paves the way for young champions to participate in the first level of the sporting event locally.<\/p>\n<p>The successful participants will then proceed to the regional level.<\/p>\n<p>The registration cut-off date is on February 27.<\/p>\n<p>The sporting activities will include ball throwing, hopping, kicking, dribbling, ring throwing and cycling.<\/p>\n<p>Interested pre-schools may enter their teams by registering through the following area coordinators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-schools in the southern area can contact: Melvin Kruger on 011 999 1373 or 072 686 2998.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-schools in the eastern area can contact: Tumelo Selopyane on 011 999 8209 or Rina Labuschagne on 011 999 8842.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-schools in the northern area can contact: William Mashamaite on 011 999 3797 or 074 564 2429 or Dalmaree Andrews on 011 999 3988.<\/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='022bcf9acc04feb86a6a0435ead93feb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports development for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":77509,"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":[2501,1003,3630,6128,6131,979,6130,6129,1002,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-77285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-city-of-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-kiddies-games","tag-ekurhuleni-kiddies-games-2015","tag-gauteng-sports-and-recreation-department","tag-germiston","tag-kiddies-games","tag-kiddies-games-2015","tag-metro","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["city of ekurhuleni","Ekurhuleni","ekurhuleni kiddies games","Ekurhuleni Kiddies games 2015","Gauteng Sports and Recreation Department","germiston","kiddies games","Kiddies games 2015","metro","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77285","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=77285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}