Held in collaboration with the Agitos Foundation and ParaVolley South Africa at Stellenbosch University, the courses on offer are aimed at coaches, classifiers and referees.

Participants from Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa are among those in attendance, while Norway is also represented.  

Instructors have been sent from Great Britain, The Netherlands, Egypt, Uganda and Rwanda.

World ParaVolley sport director Denis Le Breuilly and ParaVolley South Africa’s Anton Raimondo put together the programme, which also includes a technical workshop for future sitting volleyball leaders.

They were supported and assisted by staff of the Agitos Foundation, which is conducting a project for World ParaVolley for the first time.

The International Paralympic Committee’s development arm awarded a grant for sitting volleyball development in Western Africa in late 2014, but the programme had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of Ebola in the region.

The courses in Cape Town are due to conclude on Monday (January 11).

Egypt, Morocco and Rwanda all competed in the men’s sitting volleyball competition at the London 2012 Paralympics with the former being the only African nation to make it beyond the group stage.

After finishing third in Group A, the Egyptians went on to suffer a quarter-final defeat at the hands of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who went on to beat Iran in the final.

Rwanda's women have qualified for Rio 2016, becoming the first African country to reach the Olympics.