Sebili Molefe is dedicated to #CloseTheVisibilityGap for younger ladies in sport. As a Lesedi FM sports activities presenter, she based and organises the ‘Sure Wena Woman’ netball and soccer match. This yr’s version is happening from 17-21 December in Qwaqwa, and hosts 280 individuals in its dedication to advancing ladies’s sport.
Molefe defined how she hopes the occasion will impart to the younger ladies collaborating.
“The match’s aim is to supply alternatives for ladies to realize recognition each domestically and nationally. While addressing social challenges comparable to teenage being pregnant, substance abuse, and restricted entry to sporting alternatives.”
Lesedi FM Presenter and ‘Sure Wena Woman’ Founder, Sebili Molefe
For the sports activities broadcaster, she hopes this match has a holistic affect on its individuals and that they can avoid social ills whereas with the ability to succeed as sportswomen.
“It’s a identified truth that girls’s sports activities should not have the assist as but to develop it immensely, whether or not you speak of finance or assets. As a seasoned broadcaster with huge expertise in sport, it has all the time been my want to play a task past the microphone in advocating for ladies’s sport by placing motion to the phrases. It’s all the time been a matter of when, and that is the correct time.
She added that the match is on the correct path because it fulfilled what it got down to do. One of many occasion’s individuals was scouted by former Mamelodi Sundowns Girls coach, Jerry Tshabalala.
“I additionally use my voice and affect in uplifting others via the ‘Sure Wena Woman’ match and had one among our ladies, Pulane Moloi, scouted from the match by former Mamelodi Sundowns Girls Coach, now Moroccan membership TS Sporting Casablanca coach Jerry Tshabalala final yr.”
“She went on to characterize South Africa on the CAF African Faculties Championship 2025, that have been held in Ghana. It is a true testomony that certainly that is the correct time.”
‘Sure Wena Woman’ is now in its second yr, and Molefe envisions the sports activities match can be in all 9 provinces in South Africa sooner or later.
“My dream is to see the match increase to each province within the nation, bringing completely different ladies from all walks of life to 1 stage nationally. In rural and concrete areas, and opening worldwide doorways for our ladies.”
Molefe explains that it’s necessary for the younger ladies to have the ability to spend their time in a constructive means through the vacation interval.
“This match is performed through the festive season to additionally help our ladies in preserving occupied and never turning into victims of social ills. Because of this we work along with the Native Soccer Associations and Netball Federations, while opening doorways for very restricted groups from the neighborhood to take part within the match.”
This helps in constructing and monitoring gamers’ progress, and permits the match to be run with the utmost order by additional instilling the principles of the sport, at a time when all video games are on a break.”
Her radio profession started when she began at Qwaqwa Neighborhood Radio in 2002. Just a few years later, in 2007, she joined Lesedi FM, and as they are saying, the remaining is historical past. Molefe has develop into a trusted supply of sports activities info and is now enjoying her half within the progress of girls’s sport. She says that as a sports activities consultant, it’s her duty to inform tales that may encourage the subsequent technology.
“To inform and doc our tales ensures that even future generations have the roadmap. It will subsequently guarantee generations to come back know the right way to overcome challenges, attain nice heights of success, and preserve that success past, and likewise create a way of gratitude.”
She went on to say that she is happy so many extra ladies are coming into the sports activities broadcasting sphere.
“It’s an exquisite time to see many ladies coming into sports activities broadcasting now. It’s one of many huge indicators that present ladies are greater than succesful, given an opportunity.”
Molefe hopes to “construct a long-standing profitable broadcasting model, while mentoring and giving again to completely different communities via the Sebili Molefe Basis.”
She additionally paid homage to gsport for his or her relentless work in #ClosingTheVisibilityGap.
“gsport has achieved exceptionally effectively in #ClosingTheVisibilityGap by being the power that evokes and pushes many to rise up and do it for themselves. A platform constructed and led by an inspirational girl, Kass Naidoo, a girl who encourages and celebrates others. gsport is without doubt one of the largest mirrors the nation has in showcasing the excellence of girls’s sport.”
Major Photograph Caption: Sebili Molefe is dedicated to #CloseTheVisibilityGap for younger ladies in sport. As a Lesedi FM sports activities presenter, she based and organises the ‘Sure Wena Woman’ netball and soccer match happening from 17-21 December in Qwaqwa and can host 280 individuals and is devoted to advancing ladies’s sport. All Pictures: Provided
Photograph 2 Caption: Molefe explains that it’s necessary for the younger ladies to have the ability to spend their time in a constructive means through the vacation interval.
