Wheelchair Basketball Western Cape (WBWC) hosted a tournament at Desmond Tutu Hall in Makhaza on Saturday 23 April to pave way to Terence De Bruyn Cup for Wheelchair Basketball South Africa later in the year.
Six teams battled it out in the two day tournament with everyone working hard to make it to the best two teams to represent the province at the national championship.
Even though with significant challenges such as transportation, wheelchairs; on the field of play sublime skills were aplenty.
Duggie Wessels, chair WBWC, said they were working hard on development of the sport through the province.
“Disabled people need to realise that these things are happening. I don’t think people are aware that there are these games,” he said.
He said, maybe with people not seeing such games taking place in their areas they may think they are non-existent.
“This is why we have taken these games to this area. It is very sad to see that we have only six teams in a province as big as this one,” said Wessels.
He said things were bad as sometimes they struggled to make those teams.
Wessels said it would be “great” if business could come on board and support local basketball. He said transportation was the “biggest problem” they face as there was still a lot that needs to be done on development. Teams that participated in the tournament came as far as George, Retreat, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha.
Conquerors B won the Provincial Club Competition League (PCCL) and Conquerors A came second. They both qualified for the Terence De Bruyn Cup. The Conquerors C qualified for the Jomo Khumalo Shield.