JMPD sweeps the boards at Employee Games

 

City of Johannesburg and municipal-owned entities’ employees last week battled it out at the City’s 2014 Employee Games for places in the team that will represent the municipality at the upcoming South African Local Government Association’s OR Tambo Inter-Municipality Games.

Among those who excelled were members of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD), who took top honours in several sporting codes, including pistol shooting, chess, ladies’ soccer and volleyball.

Hosted by the City’s Community Development Department at Marks Park in Emmarentia on September 19, the games attracted a large number of enthusiastic employees, all with a common purpose to fly the City’s flag high at the OR Tambo Games, which will be held on October 24.

“This mass participation event was [held] in accordance with the Employee Sport Policy, which gives guidelines on how employees and councillors are to be organised to engage in sport and recreational activities that have a social and physical benefit to the staff and councillors,” explained the department’s Faried Loonat. 

Loonat said the games also provided the city with the ideal opportunity to foster and promote a healthy lifestyle among its employees and their families.

The team to represent Johannesburg will be finalised by the end of September.

The OR Tambo Games will be hosted by the Sedibeng District Municipality.

All 12 municipalities in Gauteng will take part in sporting codes such as action cricket, bowls, chess, darts, golf, morabaraba, ncuva, pistol shooting, pool, race walking, running, seven-a-side soccer, eleven-a-side soccer, squash, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and cycling.