This letter serves to inform that Rasthoem Simons is well-known to me as the owner of Simsport International (Globesport). He has provided football service to Rondebosch Boys’ High School since 2015.
Rondebosch Boys’ High School (RBHS) is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is a boys-only school. Rondebosch started off as a football playing school. A few years after its founding in 1897 the drill instructor started organizing practices, and arranged a few football matches which were played on the nearby Rondebosch Common.
When Mr. Mason assumed the Headmastership in 1904, one senior and one junior team were playing in the officially established football competitions. By this time rugby was also being played at the School on an unofficial basis. Rugby grew rapidly in popularity among the boys and it soon became clear that that the winter game of the school would be rugby rather than football. The decision was taken officially at the start of the 1906 season to make rugby the School’s main winter sport. The probable reasons for this were that the boys showed little interest in football; there were few suitable teams to play against; and more pointedly, the School was situated in a rugby playing stronghold, being next to Diocesan College (where rugby was first played in South Africa) and within walking distance of Newlands, the headquarters of Western Province Rugby Football Union.
The Rondebosch athletics teams of the earlier part of the 20th century included top hurdlers such as Godfrey Keyes, who later became the School’s first football Springbok.
Under the Headmastership of Mr. Reeler, football made a return to Rondebosch playing fields in 1977. Football games began on a friendly basis, necessarily sandwiched in between players’ other sporting commitments. This resulted in the emergence of talent such as that of Gary Bailey, former goalkeeper of Manchester United who made nearly 300 appearances in the English Football League and was also capped twice for England.
Apart from academic excellence, RBHS has for many years enjoyed a tradition of sporting excellence at all levels and across all sporting disciplines. We are well known for our sporting abilities and it’s a central part of a boy’s life at the school apart from academics and culture.
Football had enjoyed phases of popularity in the school’s history and now has become relevant once more.
Mr Simons’ involvement in football at Rondebosch is the starting point of putting Rondebosch back on the football map. His company is internationally renowned and has added immense value to football at RBHS. RONDEBOSCH BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL.
Since taking over the coaching duties, we have seen a tremendous improvement in football at Rondebosch Boys’ High School. The services provided by Simsport International (Globesport) covers:
The above-mentioned services has allowed the sporting code to prosper as the school now boasts five football teams with the possibility of growing it to seven in 2019. In 2018 our U15 team won the Wynberg Boys’ High School Super Cup Tournament and ended the season unbeaten.
In my relationship with him, he is known to be an individual of great integrity and dedication. He shows great dedication to the goals and tasks set out to him. As a person, he is well-liked and highly respected by both players and parents.
We at Rondebosch Boys’ High School envisage a long-term relationship with Mr Rasthoem Simons. I therefore have no hesitation in recommending the company for the services mentioned above to any other school globally.
Yours faithfully
Bassier Ahmed Halday
Master-in-Charge of Football and Educator (Rondebosch Boys’ High School)