Higher Education throws weight behind Pitso Mosimane Youth Football & TVET Colleges initiative

Mosimane, who has been focused on the work of the Pitso Mosimane Youth Football (PMYF) programmes, says TVET Colleges have a big role to play in the country, not only in football but academically. Whilst more focus has been on tournaments like the Varsity Cup from universities, which enjoy larger budgets than Colleges, Mosimane sees something important at this level.

"Then we have the Pitso Mosimane Coach Education, which they will tell you more about later. TVET, we will be part of it, I will tell you about it, but what we're doing today is to make sure that we help TVET get started. They've launched the College Cup,  which is like your varsity cup, this is the first one," said Mosimane

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"We came in to assist with the technical support for TVET, because we cannot expect them to be doing everything. They did the organisation and brought the colleges together, all from all nine provinces. We were helping them with the techncial part."

"The most important part we were doing today is to make talent identification – selecting the best 11 players from the tournament, that's what we do, and we have handed them over, so they have a vision behind, I don't want to jump the gun – they will tell you what they do with that first 11."

The Minister of the Department of Higher Education, Buti Manamela, was also present at this tournament this past weekend, and he’s always believed that colleges around the country have a big role to play in sport, especially football. The Deputy Director General for TVET College at the Department of Higher Education and Training, Sam Zungu, says with Mosimane, they have an ally who will help them to produce top-class sports projects.

Mosimane, whose next coaching target is to work with a national team, also says their involvement with the TVET Colleges will see them engaged on the academic side of their sports programmes.

At the universities, there are sports management and sports science courses, Mosimane says this is where they are coming in at the TVET Colleges through the PMYF.

With Mosimane well-travelled around the world, both as a player and coach, the President of College Sports, Arts And Culture South Africa (COSACSA), Aubrey Mpusula, says it was a no-brainer to rope him in for this project, to help them transform their sports programmes.