DATE: 8 April 2006 Babalwa Ndleleni- Ramatlapo Acknowledgement of Commonwealth Games Achievement The Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport acknowledge with great pride your outstanding sporting accomplishment at the recent Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, Australia. The bronze medal that you achieved in weight lifting, thereby becoming the first African women ever to win a Commonwealth medal in this sport makes this even more special. Through this achievement you brought much pride to the people of Gugulethu, Nyanga, Crossroads, Langa, the Cape Flats, the Western Cape, South Africa and the rest of Africa. Your achievement is even more special given the fact that you did not have access to the best facilities and resources available to prepare you for this great achievement. To ensure that you will be even better prepared and able to achieve even more medals at the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing it gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Department through the Western Cape Sports Academy will offer you an individual scholarship programme for a year. This programme will entail:
I hope that this intervention will make a contribution to your further development and that you will be able to bring back a gold medal from the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Everything of the best for the future. Yours truly, W Jacobs |
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