RAJA Xmas tournament celebrates 20 years

X- mas joy: Festive season tournaments are popular in villages
X- mas joy: Festive season tournaments are popular in villages

As the year comes to an end, various villages come to life with festive season social soccer tournaments.

One such competition is the RAJA tournament, which has been running for the last two decades.  RAJA is an acronym for Ramokgwebana and Jackalas 1 villages. The tournament spokesperson, Modesto Madzambi said RAJA will be celebrating its 20th anniversary over the festive season.

He said the tournament was established as a sports body, although not formally registered in 1997. “Our objective is to host an annual soccer tournament comprising social football clubs from the villages of Ramokgwebana and Jackalas 1.

Editor's Comment
Congratulations Anicia Gaothuse!

The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...

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