KaziPlay is a sub-component of the KaziBantu Project, (www.kazibantu.org) a specially tailored school-based intervention, and aims to consolidate the practice of physical education and to ensure the physical literacy and healthy active living of school children and teachers in South Africa.
KaziPlay is a playground and sanitation intervention to enhance playground and ablution facilities at schools situated in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Gqeberha.
“School playgrounds are important features to encourage physical activity and allow children to explore and have fun,” says project leader and Associate Professor in Human Movement Sciences’ Prof Cheryl Walter.
The KaziPlay project includes an exciting playground design, using recycled material, and integrating elements that promote basic motor competencies such as balance, rolling, jumping, running, crawling, hanging, stretching, and climbing.
Renovations of the ablution facilities based upon the needs and requirements of the respective schools were also undertaken.
The KaziPlay project has been completed at Machiu Primary and Mzimhlophe Public Primary schools in Gqeberha and was funded by the Department of Sport Exercise and Health of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
