Eastern Cape Indigenous
Games Association President Nkosinathi Biko from Cradock has been re-elected as
the President of the Kho Kho Federation of South Africa at a national
conference in Margate, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Biko will serve his
second term until September 2026 after he was elected for the first time in
2018 at the South
African National Indigenous Games Festival that were held in Limpopo.
After hearing the news Komani-Karoo Express contacted Biko who
was over the moon.
He said this victory is
not for him but the whole province of the Eastern Cape.
“I am grateful for the
opportunity to lead the whole of South Africa again, but this victory is not for
Biko alone but the whole of Eastern Cape. We are promoting the Indigenous Games
and for the first time in the history of the Eastern Cape we were in the top 3
of South African
National Indigenous Games Festival and that shows the amount of work this
province did and I am a product of that,” said Biko.
The former SAFA Chris
Hani REC member who served in the constitutional and member’s affairs committee
will lead the South African Kho Kho team in the Kho Kho World Championships
Games in Delhi, India next month.
Kho Kho is one of the
South African Indigenous Games and it is believed to have evolved in the state
of Maharashtra, India where it was played on chariots called Rath. India was
the first country to formalize and professionalize the game.
In South Africa it is thought
to have its origins in the South African Indian community. The game was and
still is enthusiastically played by children of all communities across the
country.
In players of all ages,
Kho Kho builds physical strength and stamina and involves a lot of running,
feinting, ducking, and diving.
