The UWC cricket club is proud to have South Africa’s favourite family restaurant franchise on board as their new playing kit sponsor. Spur who agreed to be a part of the Sport Skills for Life Ski....
Life after SS4LS has been proven to be a great success. Ex cricketer Ronald Masinda attributes it to the fruitful program. In 2011 the journali....
The road to the USSA 2012 final has surely been a memorable one. It has been a week of mixed emotions, filled with moments of elation, victory, panic, anger and triumph. One does not have to look f....
The 2012 USSA cricket week, hosted by Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) saw the University of the Western Cape (UWC) cricket team get off to a flyer, in what was a week of gruelling com....
As you most probably know by now, UWC have done it once again,They have been crowned kings of both one day and two day cricket here in the Western Province.A very well....
As preparations begin for the coming season, I feel the time is right to share my experiences of the 12 months that I....
UWC's ex fast bowler and currently the main strike bowler of the SWD cricket team, Gurshwin Rabie has been crowned the SWD Player of the Season for the 2011/12 season.....
Rowan Richards a much respected and admired UWC stalwart over the past 4 years has recently been offered a Franchise co....
Ss4ls”, observing or hearing that abbreviation asserts an enormous smile in the face of many. The Ss4ls initiative has been nothing but a great prospect towards develop....
Western Province Cricket Association announced its second Club Cricketer of the Month for the 2012/13 season, scoring 227 runs in just four innings in the WPCA 2-Day Competition. He scored 116 not ....
“UWC announced its arrival by winning the double in 2007/08. Reaping the rewards of the innovative ‘Sport skills for Life skills’ bursary and mentoring programme started by Adv Nic Kock and Dr Johann Graaff, ‘Bush’ (as it was known in the Apartheid years) produced 15 provincial players and 63 cricketing playing graduates in a decade and also started beating both UCT and Stellenbosch – an achievement that would have been thought inconceivable at the time of unity.”
Odendaal, 2012: 21 :The Blue Book: A History of Western Province Cricket 1890-2011
Since its inception, the Sport Skills for Life Skills has only gotten stronger through its dedicated players and their supporters. Academically the Sport Skills for Life Skills program has produced a number of graduates in a variety of fields and sportingly has consistently produced players who have represented the South African National Students Cricket Team, the Western Cape Cobra's, the Western Cape Cricket Academy as well as the Western Province Amateur Team.