E - Sports

The Wits E - Sports promotes mind sports and electronic sports at the university. The club is affiliated to Mind Sports South Africa. E - Sports, under the guidance of Wits Sport, offers opportunities to students with skill and aptitude in a number of sporting codes such as Morabaraba (traditional African board game), draught, Computer games (FIFA, Call of Duty, Counter Strike etc) and historical figure games.

Furthermore, the club competes in intervarsity tournaments, University Sports South Africa (USSA) E - Sports tournaments, and the FISU eSports Challenge.

The School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the server (Dell PowerEdge SC1420) enables the club to pursue many sports initiatives for the future. The server with a 1Gbps national connection, and 32Mbps international connection, hosted within the Central Networking Services (CNS) University server room, allows club members to host games, ensuring delay-free gaming and providing a service to all students.

E- Sport Sports Officer

Tebogo Rabothata

Office: 011 717 9404

E-mail: tebogo.rabothata@wits.ac.za

E- Sport Chairperson

Sibusiso Khumalo 

E-mail: 1732968@students.wits.ac.za