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Collin Matiza Harare Bureau
THE Western Cape Handball Association of Cape Town, South Africa, have officially extended an invitation to Zimbabwean teams who they would like to participate in the inaugural Young Masters Cup tournament that will take place in the Mother City from August 14-16.

The tournament, which is designed for the Under-16 and 18 age-groups for both boys and girls, is being organised by GeBe Education and Sports Foundation of Germany in partnership with Cape Town’s Young Masters Handball Club and the Western Cape Handball Association. Nikelo Xayiya, the development officer of the Western Cape Handball Association, yesterday said they were inviting junior handball teams from Zimbabwe to take part in this tournament which they are organising as part of their efforts to develop the sport in the Southern African region.

“The Western Cape Handball Association (WCHA) would like to extend the warmest welcome to all Zimbabwean handball teams who are interested in participating in the first annual multi-national handball tournament to be held at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology from August 14–16,” said Xayiya in a letter sent yesterday to the president of the Zimbabwe Handball Federation, Amon Madzvamuse.

He also said his association and the GeBe Education and Sports Foundation will also be holding a coaching course that will be conducted by a top coach from the German Handball Federation during this tournament.

“Interested Zimbabwean coaches are also invited to take part in this coaching course but they will have to apply through the ZHF”.

Apart from Zimbabwe, Xayiya said they have also invited teams from Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia to take part in the Young Masters Cup tournament where they will be joined by a number of handball sides drawn from Cape Town and throughout South Africa.

Bernd Wulffen, the founder and director of the GeBe Education and Sports Foundation, also said they decided to help the Western Cape Handball Association in organising this tournament in their efforts to promote the development of handball at grassroots level in the Southern African region.

Madzvamuse said they are already in the process of identifying teams and the coaches who will attend both the inaugural Young Masters Cup tournament and the coaching course in Cape Town in August.

The ZHF presdient said the teams that will take part in this tournament will be selected from the Nash games.

The GeBe Education and Sports Foundation have of late been engaging a number of local national sport associations in their development programmes and they are currently facilitating for five young, talented Zimbabwean motocross riders to travel to Germany in August to prepare for the 2015 FIM Africa Motocross of African Nations Championships that will be held here in Harare towards the end of the same month.

The five young Zimbabwean motocross riders that are set to go for a three-week training camp in Germany that is being organised by one of that country’s biggest motocross clubs, MSC Teutschenthal, in August are Emmanuel Bako, Kuda Mhene (Jnr), Daiyaan Manuel, Ryan Masimo and Tanya Muzinda.