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SACSSA Regional Athletics Day 2026 – Cape Town

Registration for SACSSA’s regional athletics day in Cape Town is open!

Dates: 21 February 2026
Venue: Laerskool Mikro, Kuilsriver (https://maps.app.goo.gl/aPNoVZqjwtezDDUW9)
Time: 08h00 – 16h30
Costs: R215 per athlete (R225 for entries after 10 February, no entry after 12 February)
Entries close: 12 February 2026 (No late entries will be accepted, proof of payment need to reach us no later than 12 February 2026)
Dress code: Plain white T-shirt with dark blue or black short/skort.

– if you’d like to volunteer as an official please let me know

Children born in 2007-2020 may enter.

Please complete the online registration at https://forms.gle/DDCBzK6UFNsU7wqK9

You need to send proof of payment to athletics.che@gmail.com within 24 hours to complete your registration.

EFT payments can be made to:
Bank: ABSA
Account name: Cape Home Educators
Account number: 4089098115
Type of account: Cheque account
Branch code: 632005
Reference: your email address

Entries close: 12 February 2026. Proof of payment needs to reach us no later than 12 February 2026.
No late entries will be accepted!!!!

General info:
1. Please ensure that you are at the venue 30 minutes before your child’s first event.
2. Athletes only compete once (no finals are run at the regional meet)
3. No medals are awarded at the Regional Meet as this is only a qualifier for the Provincial meet on 21 March 2026 at Laerskool Mikro, Kuilsriver.

Dress code and stickers
– White shirt with dark blue or black shorts (we will provide a CHE sticker for their shirt)
– Event stickers. Please note you need to provide your own event stickers. A separate sticker is needed for each event as the officials take these at the end of the event to determine placings.
Parents please ensure that athletes have their stickers on when they report for their events. Book name label stickers work well.

Please remember to bring a sticker/label for each event your child(ren) will be taking part in.

Please note the stickers for each child also needs to show their school (in our case Cape Home Educators). Example:
John Doe 10 years
Cape Home Educators
Long jump

Age is their age on 31 December 2026 eg for children born in 2016 it will be 10. If the student is 9 turning 10 this year, he/she is 10 years old! AGE GROUP 15 ARE ENTERED AS u/16, AGE GROUP 16 AND 17 ARE ENTERED AS u/18. AGE GROUP 18 AND 19 ARE ENTERED AS u/20.

Officials
We need to provide an official for every 6 athletes entered. We have added a R50 officials fee to the entry fee to rent officials. Please help us by volunteering as an official (you will then be paid for the day’s work).

Officials please wear a white shirt and white/navy/black pants.

By Lizelle R, ago

SACSSA Regional Athletics Day 2026 – Mossel Bay

Registration for SACSSA’s regional athletics day in Mossel Bay is open!

Dates:7 February 2026
Venue:  Van Riebeeck Sport Grounds, Mossel bay (https://maps.app.goo.gl/tH9U2nVSh3coKNq88)
Time: 08h00 – 16h30
Costs: R205 per athlete (R215 for entries after 28 January, no entry after 29 January)
Entries close: 29 January 2026 (No late entries will be accepted, proof of payment need to reach us no later than 29 January 2026)
Dress code: Plain white T-shirt with dark blue or black short/skort.
List of events per age group are available at https://www.capehomeed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ATHLETICS-EVENTS-LIST-2026.pdf
Program: https://www.capehomeed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SACSSA-REGIONALS-Mossel-Bay-FINAL-PROGRAM.pdf

– if you’d like to volunteer as an official please let me know

Children born in 2007-2020 may enter.

Please complete the online registration at https://forms.gle/P6ppe3xqwywwyhXw7
You need to send proof of payment to athletics.che@gmail.com within 24 hours to complete your registration.

EFT payments can be made to:
Bank: ABSA
Account name: Cape Home Educators
Account number: 4089098115
Type of account: Cheque account
Branch code: 632005
Reference: your email address

Entries close: 29 January 2026. Proof of payment needs to reach us no later than 29 January 2026.
No late entries will be accepted!!!!

General info:
1. Please ensure that you are at the venue 30 minutes before your child’s first event.
2. Athletes only compete once (no finals are run at the regional meet)
3. No medals are awarded at the Regional Meet as this is only a qualifier for the Provincial meet on 21 March 2026 at Laerskool Mikro, Kuilsriver.

Dress code and stickers
– White shirt with dark blue or black shorts
– Event stickers. Please note you need to provide your own event stickers. A separate sticker is needed for each event as the officials take these at the end of the event to determine placings.
Parents please ensure that athletes have their stickers on when they report for their events. Book name label stickers work well.

Please remember to bring a sticker/label for each event your child(ren) will be taking part in.

Please note the stickers for each child also needs to show their school (in our case Cape Home Educators). Example:
John Doe 10 years
Cape Home Educators
Long jump

Age is their age on 31 December 2026 eg for children born in 2016 it will be 10. If the student is 9 turning 10 this year, he/she is 10 years old! AGE GROUP 15 ARE ENTERED AS u/16, AGE GROUP 16 AND 17 ARE ENTERED AS u/18. AGE GROUP 18 AND 19 ARE ENTERED AS u/20.

Officials
We need to provide an official for every 6 athletes entered. We have added a R50 officials fee to the entry fee to rent officials. Please help us by volunteering as an official (you will then be paid for the day’s work).

Officials please wear a white shirt and white/navy/black pants.

By Lizelle R, ago

SACSSA Regional Athletics Day 2025 – Cape Town


Registration for SACSSA’s regional athletics day in Cape Town is open!

Dates: 8 February 2025
Venue:  Laerskool Mikro
Time: 08h00 – 16h30
Costs: R205 per athlete (R215 for entries after 28 January, no entry after 30 January)
Entries close: 30 January 2025
Dress code: Plain white T-shirt with dark blue or black shorts. CHE will provide a CHE sticker for your t-shirt.
List of events per age group are available at https://www.capehomeed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ATHLETICS-EVENTS-LIST-2025.pdf
Program: https://www.capehomeed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SACSSA-regionals-LS-MIKRO-program.pdf

– if you’d like to volunteer as an official please let me know

Children born in 2006-2019 may enter.

Please complete the online registration at https://forms.gle/kZ6P9aMEfJvnMAeN6
You need to send proof of payment to athletics.che@gmail.com within 24 hours to complete your registration.

EFT payments can be made to:
Bank: ABSA
Account name: Cape Home Educators
Account number: 4089098115
Type of account: Cheque account
Branch code: 632005
Reference: your email address

Entries close: 30 January 2025. Proof of payment needs to reach us no later than 31 January 2025.
No late entries will be accepted!!!!

General info:
1. Please ensure that you are at the venue 30 minutes before your child’s first event as you need to get the CHE sticker and the children need to be lined-up before being taken onto the field.
2. The CHE will have an area to all sit together. Look out for our CHE gazebos
3. Athletes only compete once (no finals are run at the regional meet)
4. The top 6 athletes from each event progress to the Provincial Meet in Mossel Bay on 9 August 2025. You need to enter and pay for this separately. We will send out results once it is available.
5. No medals are awarded at the Regional Meet as this is only a qualifier for the Provincial meet.

Dress code and stickers
– White shirt with dark blue or black shorts
– CHE sticker on left of chest (please collect your sticker at the CHE gazebos)
– Event stickers. Please note you need to provide your own event stickers. A separate sticker is needed for each event as the officials take these at the end of the event to determine placings.
Parents please ensure that athletes have their stickers on when they report for their events. Book name label stickers work well.

Please remember to bring a sticker/label for each event your child(ren) will be taking part in. If you forget we will be selling stickers/labels at R5 each.

Please note the stickers for each child also needs to show their school (in our case Cape Home Educators). Example:
John Doe 10 years
Cape Home Educators
Long jump

Age is their age on 31 December 2025 eg for children born in 2015 it will be 10. If the student is 9 turning 10 this year, he/she is 10 years old! AGE GROUP 16 AND 17 ARE ENTERED AS 17 (Youth). AGE GROUP 18 AND 19 ARE ENTERED AS 19 (Junior).

Officials
We need to provide an official for every 6 athletes entered. We have added a R50 officials fee to the entry fee to rent officials. Please help us by volunteering as an official (you will then be paid for the day’s work).

Officials please wear a white shirt and white/navy/black pants.

Mossel Bay Regional Athletics
18 January 2025
Contact jannie-nel@hotmail.com to enter
By Lizelle R, ago

CHE athletes excel

Only 8 of our CHE athletes competed at the SACSSA National Athletics Meeting from 20-21 September 2024 where athletes for SA, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe competed. They however preformed exceptionally well and brought home 5 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze medals! And a further two 4th, one 5th, one 6th, two 9th and two 11th positions!

Caroli Pitout was named the junior Victrix Lodorum and Joshua Bernardo the senior Victor Lodorum and best overall performance.

We also had athletes competing in the AVT Challenge on 26 October 2024 in Sasolburg, Bredasdorp Top 10 (18-19 October) and Kwagga Top 10 (11-12 October). We would like to thank WPCSSA for creating these opportunities for our athletes.

We are looking forward to the new athletics season which kicks off with regional athletics in Mossel Bay on 18 January 2025 and in Cape Town on 8 February 2025.

Ethan Bernardo (1st Discus, 2nd Javelin u/14 and 3rd Hammer Throw u/15 at SACSSA Nationals. 1st Discus and 2nd Javelin u/16 at AVT AVT SACSSA Challenge)
Joshua Bernardo (Trophy as Senior Male Victor Ludorum and for best overall performance at SACSSA Nationals with 1st Hammer Throw,  2nd Javelin and 3rd Shot put u/15. At AVT SACSSA Challenge 2nd in Hammer Throw and Shot Put u/16. 
Eduan van den Berg (2nd Shotput and 3rd Javelin u/17 at the SACSSA Nationals)
By Lizelle R, ago

SACSSA Regional Athletics Day – Cape Town

Registration for SACSSA’s regional athletics day in Cape Town is open!
A new event on the program is 100m relay for ages 12 and up. We need 4 athletes per age group to be able to enter a team. If we do not have sufficient entries in an age group we will unfortunately not be able to enter a team for that age group.
Dates: 10 February 2024
Venue: Curro Durbanville High School
Time: 08h00 – 16h30
Costs: R200 per athlete (R210 for entries after 30 January, no entry after 1 February)
Entries close: 1 February 2024
Dress code: Plain white T-shirt with dark blue or black shorts. CHE will provide a CHE sticker for your t-shirt.
List of events per age group are available at https://www.capehomeed.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ATHLETICS-EVENTS-LIST-2024-CT.pdf
Program: SACSSA-regionals-Durbanville-program
– if you’d like to volunteer as an official please let me know
Children born in 2005-2018 may enter.
Please complete the online registration at https://forms.gle/h339sY5NsyeKNRa56
You need to send proof of payment to athletics.che@gmail.com within 24 hours to complete your registration.

EFT payments can be made to:

• Bank: ABSA
• Account name: Cape Home Educators
• Account number: 4089098115
• Type of account: Cheque account
• Branch code: 632005
• Reference: your email address
Entries close: 1 February 2024. Proof of payment needs to reach us no later than 2 February 2024.
No late entries will be accepted!!!!
General info:
1. Please ensure that you are at the venue 30 minutes before your child’s first event as you need to get the CHE sticker and the children need to be lined-up before being taken onto the field.
2. The CHE will have an area to all sit together. Look out for our CHE gazebos
3. Athletes only compete once (no finals are run at the regional meet)
4. The top 6 athletes from each event progress to the Provincial Meet (on 9 March 2024 at Curro Durbanvill High School). You need to enter and pay for this separately. We will send out results once it is available.
5. No medals are awarded at the Regional Meet as this is only a qualifier for the Provincial meet.
Dress code and stickers
– White shirt with dark blue or black shorts
– CHE sticker on left of chest (please collect your sticker at the CHE gazebos)
– Event stickers. Please note you need to provide your own event stickers. A separate sticker is needed for each event as the officials take these at the end of the event to determine placings.
Parents please ensure that athletes have their stickers on when they report for their events. Book name label stickers work well.

Please remember to bring a sticker/label for each event your child(ren) will be taking part in. If you forget we will be selling stickers/labels at R5 each.
Please note the stickers for each child also needs to show their school (in our case Cape Home Educators). Example:
John Doe 10 years
Cape Home Educators
Long jump
Age is their age on 31 December 2024 eg for children born in 2014 it will be 10. If the student is 9 turning 10 this year, he/she is 10 years old! AGE GROUP 16 AND 17 ARE ENTERED AS 17 (Youth). AGE GROUP 18 AND 19 ARE ENTERED AS 19 (Junior).
Officials
We need to provide an official for every 6 athletes entered. We have added a R50 officials fee to the entry fee to rent officials. Please help us by volunteering as an official (you will then be paid for the day’s work).
Officials please wear a white shirt and white/navy/black pants.
By Lizelle R, ago

AGM Invitation to Members

Dear CHE Members

Notice of AGM for members of Cape Home Educators

You are invited to CHE’s Annual General Meeting to be held on:
16 September 2023
10:00
Digteby Estate Clubhouse, Vlottenburg Road, Stellenbosch
RSVP by 9 September 2023 to capehomeed@gmail.com

Please note that we will meet in person and that you must please RSVP If you are going to attend, we need the numbers to make arrangements for catering.

CHE is experiencing problems with sending out newsletters via our website. While trying to find a solution for this, please help us by sharing this invitation to Western Cape based home education groups and friends.

CHE members are welcome to come to the AGM.

Upon receiving your RSVP to join the AGM, you will receive confirmation of attendance and the agenda for the meeting.

Looking forward to seeing you at the AGM!
Marietjie Ueckermann
Chairperson
Cape Home Educators

By Lizelle R, ago