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SOUTH AFRICA / SPORTS FESTIVAL
STORY: SOUTH AFRICA / SPORTS FESTIVAL
TRT: 2.17
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 MAY 2010, HUHUNDI, SOUTH AFRICA
1. Tilt Down, young people engaged in discy dancing, a new dance that has taken hold as part of the football fever
2. Med shot, young people discy dancing
3. Close up, feet dancing
4. Med shot, a young boy blowing a Vuvezela (a symbol of the approaching 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa)
5. Med shot, children yelling
6. Pan right, children playing football in Huhudi Stadium for festival
7. Wide shot, Huhudi
8. Wide shot, entrance to Huhudi
9. Pan left, Sign to Huhudi
10. Various shots, streets of Huhudi
11. Med shot, girls playing netball
12. Wide shot, girls playing netball
13. Pan right, netball game
14. Wide shot, netball game
15. Med shot, girls cheering
16. Med shot, Barbara Saruchera, mentor, coach and netball player
17. Close shot, Barbara Saruchera, mentor, coach and netball player
18. Wide shot, Barbara Saruchera, mentor, coach and netball player
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Saruchera, mentor, coach and netball player:
“There are plenty of kids here. Where would they be right now if it was not for?
This event; at home getting more mischievous like teenagers of today. Teenage pregnancy right now is very high, especially in this community. They drink; do all kinds of things, bad stuff, drink alcohol, drugs. So this is something to keep kids busy and it gets them active as they grow older and discover their talents.”
20. Med shot, boy throwing ball
21. Wide shot, children playing netball
22. Wide shot, man walking by Sport for Development sign
23. Close up, Total and UNICEF sign
24. Wide shot, football players watching the game
25. Pan right, football players
26. Wide shot, children practicing football tricks
Football fever is moving across South Africa. With the FIFA 2010 World Cup fast approaching, young people are getting excited that one of world’s biggest sporting event is taking place in their country.
Approximately 300 children have gathered for a day long sporting festival at Huhudi stadium. The community of around forty thousand people sits on the outskirts of Vryberg, a rural farming town in North West Province. This township, like others is a legacy of apartheid, when the black majority was segregated to the fringe and still suffers from high levels of poverty.
Today’s sporting festival is one of 21 taking place from May till July to reach the most remote and poorest parts of the country with an opportunity to show case their own sporting talents and celebrate the World Cup in their own community.
Barbara Saruchera is a mentor to many young girls. As a University student, she comes home every weekend to play as well as coaches a girl’s netball team. For her, sport is an important way to keep children busy an out of trouble.
SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Saruchera, Mentor, coach and netball player:
“There are plenty of kids here. Where would they be right now if it was not for this event? At home getting more mischievous like teenagers of today. Teenage pregnancy right now is very high, especially in this community. They drink, do all kinds of things, bad stuff, drink alcohol, drugs so this is something to keep kids busy and it gets them active as they grow older and discover their talents.”
The festivals are part of an ongoing sports for development program organized by the Ministry of Education and UNICEF through four non government organizations.
In poor communities like Huhudi, where unemployment is high and many parents move to larger city in search of jobs, children are often left to their own devices.
Many of the young boys are excited that their football heroes will be in South Africa. It fuels their own ambition that with more practice and time of the football field, they too can succeed.
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