Thematic question: Traditional games South Africa’s Indigenous Games Festival takes place at the Tshwane Events Centre from Monday, 22nd September until Wednesday. The event is growing in popularity and about 1600 athletes and officials from the country’s provincial ¬federations are expected to attend. The sports and recreation and cooperative governance and traditional affairs departments are leading the call for the digitisation and formalisation of games such as diketo, lintonga, musangwe (bare-knuckle boxing) and others. With the theme–My roots, my pride, my future–the three-day event attracts between 3000 and 10000 people daily and is by far South Africa’s biggest ¬traditionalgames festival. I grew up on such games as kgati, morabaraba, diketo, yo-yo, masgalombe and hula hooping. For me it is very important that we keep these traditions alive. Morabaraba Also known as ncuva or morula, morabaraba is one of South Africa’s most popular traditionalgames. Similar to chess, the Oxford dictionary says the term ‘morabaraba’ is ¬derived from Sesotho and loosely translates to mean “mill” or to go around in a circle. Like chess, this abstract strategic game sees two ¬players trying to outmanoeuvre each other by moving the pieces from one intersection to another until a ¬winner emerges. Kgati Also known as ntimo or ugqaphu, kgati is a skipping game played by two people. Two players hold the skipping rope on each end, while the third player skips in a variety of ways while chanting and singing. In 2012, the South African Kgati team won gold at the 5th World Sport for All Games in Lithuania. Diketo Also known as upuca, magava or ukugenda, this is a coordination game played mostly by young girls. Ten stones are placed in a circle or a square. Each player then tries to grab the most stones, throw them in the air and catch them in one hand until all the stones are back in the circle or square. Lintonga This is a stick-fighting game made popular by boys herding livestock in the rural areas of South Africa. It is played between two people armed with two long sticks–one is used for defence and the other is used for offence. The competing opponents hit each other with the sticks. The one who hits the hardest until his opponent surrenders is the winner. NGEZIPHI IGEAMES THAT YOU WERE GOOD AT USAKHULA?
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:41:09 +0000
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