We are pleased to welcome Thabile Nene and Marvin Williams to our MasiSports management team. Our NPO has evolved over the last 18 months, necessitating these appointments to safeguard the sustainability of our programme.
Thabile joins us as manager of our Cultural Activities Partnerships, which include the health sector. The MOU with the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF), just opposite the Masi High School front gates, enables this partnership to assist high school learners navigate teenage life in the township — no easy task. We are employing a social coach (worker) who will be located at the DTHF and be managed by them, as they have that expertise. This is an exciting and essential development, as the social coach will work with the school staff and coaches to support the learners. Together we will work closely with the school.
Our partnerships that help us provide cultural activities like art, dance, chess, and music require management and focus. We have special partners such as FLOWW, which is working on bringing the menstrual pants initiative into the wider Masi township, and MasiSports needs to drive these projects with determination and creativity.
Thabile has extensive experience in the NGO girls’ soccer space. She was also a semi-professional soccer player.
Marvin will head up sports, life skills, coach training, and socio-economic empowerment. Marvin is well known as he has headed up the successful Fish Hoek Primary School sports operations for many years; he knows the valley and all its schools. With Masi High’s new fields, courts, and nets, the role of sport is ever-deepening and broadening. He will ensure the additional training for our coaches and educator coaches.
Marvin played in the UK professional cricket leagues and is currently a Claremont Cricket Club first-team player as well as being its club captain of all cricket operations.
For the first time, MasiSports can now assist a child from Grade 1 to adulthood in Grade 12.
And within the next two years we plan to assist the grade 10s and 11s via internships and short sports-focused courses to understand, and experience, what it is like to be employed. Marvin will lead this new initiative.
We believe that to fulfill our purpose, we must give school leavers the confidence to apply for jobs and perform well. A holistic education needs to include understanding the skills of employability.
We welcome Thabile and Marvin to our teams, schools, and our community. The new evolution will help us develop our ultimate aim with all our partners and schools – that of producing positive generational change, year after year.
Our Sports Exco remains as is; Nceba Jonas (Head of Sport, Ukhanyo Primary), Teddy Nyali (Head Sport & Admin Masi High), Feziwe Payi (Head of Netball & administration – MEL), Nolan Koopman (Head of Sport Admin Ukhanyo Primary).
Please continue to visit our website www.masisports.co.za for further updates.
