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Alumni Golf Day
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event which included both UPE and PE Technikon alumni
was a wonderful networking opportunity for old friends and
peers. The funds raised on the day will be used to attract
top sportsmen and women to study at our university.
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Shafiek Abrahams - South African Cricket
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National Selector for the
South African Cricket team, former Protea’s spin bowler,
and head coach of the NMMU Cricket Academy, Cricket South
Africa’s National Spin Bowling Coordinator and youth
cricket developer, Shafiek Abrahams is well immersed in the
South African sport he loves so much.
The NMMU Trust has sponsored Shafiek’s role at the NMMU
for the past two years and hopes to continue to do
so in the years to come.
Absa NMMU cricketer Chad Baxter, who was trained by Abrahams,
was voted the Sassu Student Cricketer of the Year at the Mutual
and Federal Cricket Awards banquet held in June 2008. Educated
at St Andrews College in Grahamstown, Baxter had an outstanding
2008 season and was one of a group of talented cricketers in
Shafiek’s powerful Absa NMMU Varsity side. He scored two centuries
in three games played at the Sassu tournament in Pietermaritzburg in
2007. He also scored well during the MCCU tour in Cape Town with an
average of 54 in the one-day version and 56 in the three-day
version of the game. He also took four wickets for 40 runs in 16 overs.
Shafiek Abrahams:
"Developing cricket in the Eastern Cape, finding the right talent
early on and nurturing it, is essential for the success of the
region and the National side. Cricket is a great South African
sport, much loved and followed by all. The sport's ability to bond
South Africans in mutual enjoyment of the game is a key motivator,
it is one of the reason's I am still involved in the game, both on a
national and provincial level"
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EP Hockey Supporters Club - It all adds up
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The Eastern Province Hockey
Supporters Club made an annual bursary available for NMMU's
best hockey student. The funds were gatheredfrom collections
taken at Club meetings over the years, which eventually added
up to a substantial amount of money. EP Hockey Club
member Roy Sutcliff handed the money over to the Trust so that a
bursary could be set up with the proceeds.
Apart from South Africa's mainstream sports - rugby, soccer, and
cricket - some of the sports offered at NMMU include Archery,
Netball, Waterpolo, basket, cycling, Judo, table tennis, squash,
underwater hockey and volleyball.
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Big cricketing names confirmed for NMMU cricketing event
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The NMMU Cricket Reunion, planned for 2010, has been attracting interest from alumni all around the world. International cricketing greats who started their careers at the University, such as David Richardson , Kepler Wessels, Shafiek Abrahams, Tim Shaw, Mark Rushmere, Brett Schultz, Dave Callaghan, Pieter Strydom (all ex Protea players) and Neil Johnson (ex Zimbabwe), have already confirmed their attendance.
The sporting reunion is to be held at the NMMU in Mandela Bay in May 2010. NMMU alumni who played cricket between 1965 and 1995, are eligible to play in the reunion and the tournament will be open to spectators. Well known cricket commentator and executive head of the NMMU Trust Professor Kotie Grove is organising the reunion, along with long-time friend Flip Potgieter, the former Eastern Province Cricket Board president.
“This reunion is essentially a celebration of the first 30 years of NMMU Cricket (then known as UPE and PE Tech). The weekend tournament will be played on the Saturday with eight 20/20 matches at NMMU, divided into age groups.
"This reunion is for everyone who played cricket during these years and this is a personal invite from me to anyone who played to attend this event. It promises to be a great party, and it's perfect timing as those who live in foreign countries can then extend their stay and watch the FIFA World Cup Soccer the following month," adds Prof Grove.
NMMU Cricket team victorious at National Club Cricket Champs
Toshiba NMMU won their second National Club Cricket Championship, after beating Berea Rovers by seven wickets at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) on Sunday September 27th. The Port Elizabeth team last won the championship 17 years ago, in 1992. The current coach of Toshiba NMMU, Shafiek Abrahams, took four wickets in the 1992 game, and is now victorious again as the coach of the side.
“I feel I have now come full circle, at first playing in the side that were victorious in this event almost two decades ago and now being the coach of the victorious side,” Abrahams said.
Abrahams was brought to NMMU to coach first team cricket in the coastal city by the NMMU Trust.
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Shafiek and Kotie –Shafiek Abrahams and Kotie Grove celebrate winning the National Cricket Club Championships |
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