Morgan Bay Igxarha Sport Fund & Song Project

Lots has been happening in Sport in Morgan Bay Igxarha!

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

This Sport Fund initiative is run on funds being raised by various parties specifically for local sport upliftment, for more info on how this funding is raised and spent, please call Graham Noonon who has kindly offered to chat to the public about his awesome fund raising efforts, call him on +27 72 031 5584.

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

Soccer News

To keep informed of local soccer news, follow Pres Milan Manager Thembalani’s updates on Facebook, on this link

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

Netball News

Our Igxarha 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. Call Kathy on 084 965 3949 for more info on our teams progress.

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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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.

Igxarha 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 2024, 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.

Also in exciting local Sports news, see pictured below members of the Pres Milan football team, with their leaders, who have helped at Yellowwood Forest to make a very visible difference to areas affected by invasive alien plants. With funds raised from the Forest Fund book table, Yellowwood Forest was honoured to be able to sponsor a set of soccer kit for the U17 Pres Milan football team, which were used for the first time on Heritage Day 2024. For more info about this ongoing initiative please call Elizabeth on +27 83 235 1233

Our newly named Igxarha Netball Team, who were the fantastic crew dancing on our Morgan Bay Igxarha Song project, finally got their Netball Footgear in July 2024 at a handing over gathering at Igxarha Créche as part payment for their appearance in our Morgan Bay Igxarha music video (see link above) This is the final step to the project initiated and supported by the Dynamo Group and Morgan Bay Ratepayers Association.

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