Embracing Ability
IsAbility Sports Club Limpopo is an offshoot of its ‘Mother Club’, IsAbility Sports Club Gauteng which was launched in 2011 out of Icexpress Progressive Prosthetics (founded in 2007).
What We Do
PROMOTE
Promote access to various sporting disciplines for athletes who are able-bodied as well as those who are physically challenged, specifically in Limpopo Province.
BOOST
Boost public awareness about and support for parasport.
EQUIP
Equip both able-bodied and physically challenged athletes to embrace and develop their abilities, and thus to experience the benefits of participation and achievement in the sports arena.
Our History
Our Isability journey starts back in 2018 when Sheryl James was invited to attend a Mass Participation event hosted by IsAbility Sports Club Gauteng. There, she participated in Para athletics for the first time and blew everyone away with her running.
Based on her performance, Sheryl – who is a born and bred Vhembe, Louis Trichardt native living with hemiplegia – was encouraged by Icexpress Progressive Prosthetics’ Johan Snyders to compete at the highest level.
Her decision to ‘go for it’ opened the door to the launch of Isability Sports Club Limpopo with the vision to help identify and develop the Limpopo’s athletic talents by following our Gauteng ‘satellite’ Club’s model and guidance.
By 2025 Sheryl had already represented South Africa on the global stage many times and won 400m bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics and the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships. Her passion for community development through sport drives many of our Fit-to-Fly campaigns.
She is a Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund charity ambassador and role model to the charity’s beneficiaries in the Limpopo including local beneficiary, Vhuthuhawe Nemutandani.
One of our local beneficiaries
Vhuthuhawe Nemutandani
On 8 September 2018, Isability Sports Club Limpopo held its first Mass Participation Athletics event in Louis Trichardt. At this event, Vhuthuhawe Nemutandani, a young double amputee from the Tshilidzini Special School in Vhembe, received a prosthetic limb courtesy of a local sponsor and the Jumping Kids initiative.
On 10 November 2018, courtesy of IsAbility Sport Club Limpopo, Vhuthuhawe Nemutandani began his journey of classification as a para-athlete. This has enabled him to participate and compete on a provincial and national level. His journey is ongoing.
In 2026 Vhuthuhawe produced an excellent performance at the Toyota SASAPD National Championships achieving 100m track chair race – gold; Discus – gold; and Javelin – gold for Limpopo in his Para athletics division.