Morgan Bay Igxarha Sport Fund & Song Project

June/July 2024

Lots has been happening in Sport in Morgan Bay Igxarha in June and July this year!

Graham Noonan, with the help of Ivan Deetlefs made a YouTube video detailing the tireless work being done to raise funds for upgrading sport facilities for Rugby, Soccer and Netball in Igxarha.

Please give it a view, you will be inspired by all the effort made for our community

Soccer News

Here is the June scores update from Pres Milan Manager Thembalani Xolo:

‘Pres’ Milan fc June games 

15-16-17 played on June 16th tournament at Nyarha Mooiplaas (beat Green Lovers 3-2 from penalty shootout decider after 4-4 draw, also beat Mavuso Stars 2-1, and beat Imidushane fc 5-4 from penalty shootout decider after 1-1 draw)

22nd June played tournament last 2 games and lost from Chintsa Achievers by 5-6 from penalty shootout decider after 0-0 draw, and finally lost again from Mooiplaas Legends by 3-4 from penalty shootout decider after 1-1 draw)

30th June played at Kei Mouth friendly games.

Won against All Stars 5-4 from penalty shootout decider after 0-0 draw

07th July playing at Kei Mouth still friendly matches.’

To keep following Manager Thembalani’s updates on Facebook, follow this link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/387947537240266/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT

Netball News

Our Pres Milan Netball Team and their Coach Thandi Dywashu, have been practicing regularly ahead of friendly matches to be played against various teams, getting them ready to join in the Netball Leagues in due course. Watch this space for updates.

Scroll down to take a look at our Morgan Bay Igxarha music video made by our community to inspire you to donate to this wonderful initiative!

Donations

There is a PAY portal for donations to the Sports Fund which is managed by Morgan Bay Ratepayers Association and payments can be made as follows.

Name: Morgan Bay Ratepayers Association
Bank: Standard Bank
Account no: 036393800 (Savings)
Reference: Sports Fund / Sport Fund Song

(to donate exclusively to sport reference Sports Fund, to include local musician support reference Sports Fund Song)

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April/May 2024

Music and sport are powerfully unifying. This has been demonstrated by our Morgan Bay Igxarha Song project, which was initiated by the Morgan Bay Dynamos and Morgan Bay Ratepayers Committee and produced by a committed team of local creatives in our community (all credits at end of video)

The purpose of our song is to promote our wonderful area and for the upliftment of our local sport and music, as the proceeds derived from the song will be used in our Morgan Bay Sport Fund.

The Morgan Bay Igxarha song was co-written and produced by Kathy Raven, Unathi Gwebani and Myrna Brunette. Then the help of Thembelani Xolo, Pres Milan Manager, who was enlisted, and wrote some beautiful keyboard parts, and joined the crew.

Pres Milan Netball Team and their Coach Thandi Dywashu started practicing a dance to accompany our song. This was workshopped at Igxarha Crèche with our creative team – much fun and excitement ensued. In exchange, the netball team received netball kit sponsored by our ratepayers. The idea of incorporating our netball team as dancers in the music video was inspired by work done in our community, in sport, by the late Donald Moore, Fioni Murray, Themebelani Xolo, Graham Noonan, Rob Jackson, and Yellowwood Forest’s Virtuous Circle Forest Restoration Project, among others, where our soccer and rugby teams have worked on various community initiatives, in exchange for their new kit and travel costs.
The final live recording was done at Art Studio 156 Morgan Bay, during a crazy week in early March, when a mini hurricane hit town and downed the electricity for seven days. It was pieced together with Wayne Naylor from Wild Coast fm as co-producer, who had the genius stroke to bring a gennie and a UPS.

We then filmed a Morgan Bay Igxarha music video to share with the public and promote our beautiful natural heritage!

Our hope is also to inspire other creatives around South African towns to do similar projects to our #smalltownsongproject. So we are passing along the baton for #bettertogether #smalltownsongproject #proudlysouthafrican

Donations

There is a PAY portal for donations to the sports fund which will be managed by Morgan Bay Ratepayers Association and payments can be made as follows.

Name: Morgan Bay Ratepayers Association
Bank: Standard Bank
Account no: 036393800
Reference: Sports Fund / Sport Fund Song

Type: Savings

(to donate exclusively to sport reference Sports Fund, to include local musician support reference Sports Fund Song)

Please contact Kathy on 084 965 3949 for any further info regarding this project.