{"id":84950,"date":"2015-03-29T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84950\/full-contact-tournament-planned-for-may\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T13:20:11","slug":"full-contact-tournament-planned-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/03\/29\/full-contact-tournament-planned-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-contact tournament planned for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong&#8217;s Shorin-Kempo Kaikan Karate Club is scheduled to host a karate tournament in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We invite all full-contact karate clubs to participate in the fifth edition of our annual tournament, which will be held on May 30, at the Thokoza Auditorium,&#8221; said tournament organiser Thulane Sibisi.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s tournament is primarily focused on full-contact karate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sibisi, who is also the local club&#8217;s chief instructor, added that they are expecting guests from across South African borders to make appearances at the tournament.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting guests from, among other places, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Swaziland; we are very excited about the tournament, by the looks of things it will be big,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sibisi also told a GCN journalist that they are in need of sponsorships for a number of items needed for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need sponsorship for prizes, energy drinks and a Tatami (ring), we are calling out to anybody who can help us with those items,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although we have covered other elements of the tournament&#8217;s requirements, we call out to anybody who can help us in any way; it will be highly appreciated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will run from 8am to 8pm, with no entrance fee for fans.<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee is charged per club.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Sibisi on 083 599 5916 or 011 999-0691.<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/83619\/top-positions-for-local-karate-club\/\">Top positions for local karate club.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84145\/five-medals-for-nippon-dojo\/\">Five medals for Nippon Dojo.<\/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='55198d592fcd7f799ae4ee3b7444cc01'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorin-Kempo Kaikan Karate Tournament coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84951,"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":[11,3],"tags":[6863,1106,979,969,1477,1015,5341,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,6864,6867,6999,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-84950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-full-contact-karate","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-karate","tag-katlehong","tag-kumite-stand-up-full-contact","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-shorin-kempo-kaikan-karate-club","tag-shorin-kempo-kaikan-karate-club-katlehong","tag-shorin-kempo-kaikan-karate-tournament","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Full-contact karate","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","karate","katlehong","Kumite (stand up full contact)","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","Shorin-Kempo Kaikan Karate Club","Shorin-Kempo Kaikan Karate Club Katlehong","Shorin-Kempo Kaikan Karate Tournament","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84950","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=84950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}