DEPARTMENT OF SPORT AND RECREATION
PRESENTATION OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN 2012 – 2016 AND
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN 2012/13 TO THE PORTFOLIO
COMMITTEE FOR SPORT AND RECREATION,
PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE MINISTER OF SPORT AND RECREATION, MR FIKILE
MBALULA, MP
13 MARCH 2012
“From Policy to Practice”
The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee
Members of Parliament
Ladies and Gentlemen
Today we have the extraordinary nobility of presenting the 2012 –
2016 Strategic Plan and the 2012/13 Annual Performance Plan of the
Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) to the
Portfolio Committee for Sport and Recreation of the Parliament of the
Republic of South Africa.
Chairperson, The Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) is hereby
presenting the Strategic Plan for the Fiscal Years 2012 to 2016 to the
people of the Republic of South Africa and the Parliament of the
Republic for consideration. The Strategic Plan is aimed at giving the
nation a clear picture of the planned programmes and activities of
SRSA for the next five years as well as budget allocations and
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estimates for such years.
This Strategic Plan is broken down into
Annual Plans and Activities that are aimed at realizing the stated
objectives of the 2012 – 2016 Strategic Plan. At the same time this
plan will on Annual Basis position itself to integrate the National Sport
and Recreation Plan (NSRP) 2030 as adopted by the National Sport
and Recreation Indaba (NSRI) in November 2011.
Concretely, the Strategic Plan takes into account all the relevant
policies, legislation and other mandates for which Sport and Recreation
South Africa is responsible.
It accurately reflects the strategic
outcome oriented goals and objectives which Sport and Recreation
South Africa will endeavour to achieve over the period 2012 - 2016.
The genesis of the documents presented to the Portfolio Committee
this morning emanates from the January 2011 Strategic Planning
Workshop of Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) together with
all the Members of Executive Councils (MEC’s) as well as the South
African
Sport
Confederation
and
Olympic
Committee
(SASCOC)
including Sport Federations held in Misty Hills, Gauteng Province was a
watershed moment for Sport and Recreation in the Republic of South
Africa.
This Strategic Planning Workshop provided the foundation for faster
change in sport and recreation in South Africa; and made a positive
impact on the quality of sport and recreation system in our country.
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As reported to this Parliament in 2011, the Strategic Planning
Workshop had extensive discussions and conclusions on issues related
to transformation, schools sport, facilities, funding and etc. Key to this
was the proposal to host the first ever National Sport and Recreation
Indaba in the Republic.
At the centre of the strategy to deal with the aforementioned
programmes was the matter of levelling the playing field in sport and
recreation in South Africa. In this regard, SRSA held a National Sport
and Recreation Indaba (NSRI) in November 2011, the first of its kind
under the theme “From Policy to Practice”; not Just Another Indaba!
Honourable Members, the NSRI was a ‘festival of ideas’. It provided a
platform for our people to establish a connection between the
developmental impact of sport and recreation, development in sport
and recreation as well as structural characteristics of the sport and
recreation architecture.
It looked at the internal organisation of the
Department
and
of
Sport
Recreation
and
its
relations
to
all
stakeholders in sport and recreation.
The significance of the Indaba is that South Africa’s sport and
recreation fraternity need to pay close attention to the institutional
design in SRSA and National Federations (NFs) and all the organisation
of sport and recreation that should underpin the South African
government
development
policy
and
programmes.
And
such
institutions have to be transformative, rather than constraining the
capacity of the developmental state.
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The National Sport and Recreation Indaba (NSRI) therefore affirmed
the need to intensify the transformation agenda in sport and
recreation using schools as incubators for development. It re-affirmed
the centrality of schools as ‘bedrock’ for sport development in our
country whilst at the same time confirming schools sport as the
important grassroots participation in ensuring that sport development
is achieved and fulfils the mission of SRSA.
The Sport Indaba stated without equivocation that there should be a
structured schools sport programme with dedicated schools sport
structures in line with schools’ sport leagues.
It is therefore our collective responsibility to embrace this and provide
leadership towards the realization of this dream.
Only through our
collective efforts we will achieve a qualitative and sound schools sport
system in South Africa.
In the same token the National Sport Indaba re-affirmed the strategic
importance of Sports Hubs and also affirmed that it is through the
collective wisdom of the people of South Africa as well as private
sector to build strong and functioning sports hubs across the country.
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It further recognized the importance of rewarding excellence through a
well organized South Africa Sports Awards; and committed the SRSA
to organize a bigger and better SA Awards for 2012.
It also recognized the steps taken to improve the performance of our
national teams and athletes through opening access, efforts for
greater integration and coordination of all sport structures and
systems.
It lastly acknowledged progress made since 1994; and called on all
stakeholders to redouble their efforts and commitments to address the
persistent disparities in sport and recreation in the Republic.
As we thrust ahead towards the eighteenth anniversary of the
existence of the Department of Sport and Recreation in 2013,
reflections on the long road traversed occupy our daily thoughts, it is
palpable that those vistas give way to lessons learned, and the long
road that still lies ahead of us in achieving a better life for all South
Africans.
Honourable Members, we have closed the year 2011 with the
completion of both the Country Report on the hosting of the 2010 FIFA
World Cup and the Hundred (100) Days Report of the Ministry of Sport
and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) in Office. We can however boast
that both the year 2010 and 2011 have been wonderful and happy
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periods in the history of sport and recreation and for the people of the
Republic of South Africa, Africa and the world.
Both these auspicious years witnessed a world soccer extravaganza
prepared and hosted by Africans themselves on the African soil; and
our participation in the Cricket and Rugby World Cups as well as the
World Netball Championships showing sport and athletic skills, our
hospitality and a caring spirit towards the peoples of the world during
the 2010 FIFA World Cup and Ekhaya Hospitality programmes we
hosting elsewhere in the world.
We have in the same token launched the Schools Sport programme for
South Africa in 2011 and will in 2012 rigorously roll-out schools sport
programmes based on the priority sport codes we have chosen. At the
same time SRSA stresses and reassert the importance of schools
sport; especially the matter of compulsory physical education and
activities in all schools of the Republic of South Africa.
This includes, but not limited to, local, regional, provincial and national
schools sport competitions which is now high on the agenda of SRSA
and the nation going forward.
This should also include our
relationships and partnerships with other government departments
e.g. the Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of
Education on Schools Sport and the Department of Health around
issues of nutrition in schools.
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In this context SASCOC is called upon to work closely with SRSA in the
delivery of our Schools Sport programme.
We want to use schools
sport as a platform to encourage social integration and integrated
social inclusion. We would like all stakeholders to put their valuable
time to support all our young athletes especially in schools and provide
assistance to our educators with the necessary support and skills in
areas such as coaching and officiating using the ‘Coaching Framework’
as well as sport administration and management, among other things.
Ladies and Gentlemen, progress has been made since 1994 in sport
and recreation, however, more still needs to be done to level the
playing field in sport.
We still witness an inaccessible and unequal
landscape in sport as well as lack of a fully funded sport development
and system in the Republic. Therefore, this sport administration has
been given a mandate to correct these imbalances of the past.
To concretely implement these strategic imperatives, the delegates at
the November 2011 Sports Indaba charged the government and the
civil
society
to
move
with
speed
in
improving
the
sporting
environment, access to facilities and sustained development.
In this context we would like to call upon all the developmental state,
private sector, labour and business as well as civil society to join
hands with us in the Schools Sport programme enchored on three
important components:
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
Physical Education

Top School Leagues, and

Youth Olympics.
SRSA regards schools sport as ‘foundation’ of sport development in
South Africa. We would like to build strategic alliances in the roll-out
of Schools Sport.
We want schools in South Africa to be incubators
and nurseries for sport development and talent identification.
We
want to use schools sport as a platform to encourage social integration
and integrated social inclusion.
As from this year 2012 onwards, we commit ourselves to maximize
access to sport, recreation and physical education in every school in
the Republic.
We have identified schools sport as a strategic opportunity for sport
development and talent identification.
In this regard we have
developed an Integrated School Sport Delivery Framework that is
being implemented in 2012 and beyond.
At the same time, SRSA and the DoBE are mobilizing schools and
society to register their schools’ teams to participate in the Leagues’
five competitions categories that will ultimately lead to the National
School Festivals for all the winning schools.
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For an example; schools will be required to participate in Intra-School
Competitions;
Inter-School
Level
competitions;
District
Level
Competitions; Provincial Competitions; and National Competition.
In this regard, through the SRSA partnership with the Department of
Basic Education (DoBE) and other key stakeholders, we agreed to
prioritize and magnify this programme.
We are launching the
Magnificent Wednesdays. This Wednesdays programme will be used as
a vehicle that will drive the School Sport Programme for the country
on a weekly basis. This is an ambitious yet achievable programme
where major business faculty is needed to inject more financial and
kind support for a better South Africa.
By doing this we believe that Investment in education and sport are
not parallel, they are dialectically intertwined; we suggest that
Corporate Social Investment (CSI) of business entities should be
channeled to priority areas, particularly In school sport programmes.
We would like to use every available platform to exchange ideas on
how we, together with society, can fast-track the implementation of
our national sports and recreation plan.
We hope to lobby everybody to discuss with us new modern ways of
developing modern sport clubs and teams.
We want to share
experiences with each and every person on how to use modern
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technology to advance sport development especially at the level of
schools, clubs and federations.
In the same token SRSA together with SAFA will utilize the FIFA World
Cup Legacy Trust Fund to roll-out the construction of artificial football
fields to be utilized to roll-out the implementation of Regional Sports
Hubs.
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These hubs will take the form of the construction of Multicentres, High Performance
Centres as well as Sports
Academies across the country especially in rural and neglected areas.
We would therefore like to continue and maximize our efforts in the
spirit of the Indaba and build on that foundation for a well rounded
and a sound sport system in our country.
We will do so determined to alter the balance of forces in sport and
recreation
landscape
towards
a
united,
non-racial,
non-sexist,
democratic and prosperous sport and recreation system in the
Republic; because we believe that seventeen years in our democratic
dispensation South African sport is still faced with a huge backlog in
terms of transformation, our national teams are still predominantly
unrepresentative, distribution of facilities is still skewed and access not
open to all.
As an ‘active and winning nation’, SRSA held first ever South African
Sports Awards in October 2012. The SA Sports Awards is a platform
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to celebrate excellence; rewarding achievement in sport and recreation
and well designed recognition of luminaries in and off the field of sport.
SRSA together with SABC and SASCOC organized a very successful SA
Sport Awards for our country. We therefore want to host a bigger and
better Awards in October 2012. To do this successfully, we are here to
also moblise partners towards this historic event.
We therefore urge everyone in South Africa to partner with us by
contributing towards the success of the SA Sport Awards or Adopt a
Sport as a token of appreciation of ‘a winning nation’; or/and Adopt a Hub as a
symbol of promoting ‘an active nation’.
Concretely and in essence the Ministry of Sport and Recreation will in
this
financial
year
appoint
the
National
Sport
and
Recreation
Transformation Commission that will among other things Monitor and
Evaluate the extent of the implementation of the Transformation
Charter as part of the NSRP with its stated Scorecards as the
Monitoring and Evaluation tool for Transformation in sport and
recreation. In this effect SRSA and SASCOC will take full responsibility
for overseeing transformation with SRSA being at the helm of the
process.
This will involve signing Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
with all the Federations and other stakeholders who are in sport and
recreation service delivery machinery.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, SRSA is formulating a Cabinet Memorandum in
order to table the NSRP to Cabinet for approval and request Cabinet to
prioritize sport and recreation by instructing the developmental state
to put more and sufficient funds the vigorous implementation of the
NSRP. We will, after the approval by Cabinet of the NSRP, go out on
rigorous ‘Road Shows’ country wide in all provinces and municipalities
to engage our communities on the NSRP.
This will include tailored
awareness and outreach programmes as well as Magnificent Fridays
programmes to inform our people about the NSRP and its envisaged
impact in the lives of ordinary South Africans especially sportspersons.
Chairperson, we will continue to turn around the operational mode on
how we conduct our business as a Department and portfolio of sport
and recreation, and realign our outputs to our strategic national
outcomes. This we do, fully aware that it would be a long, arduous
struggle which would require vision, determination and commitment.
It is incumbent upon us to work in unison, to construct a social
compact with all stakeholders that will harness our collective resolve,
underpinned by our shared values and common vision.
We will do this to establish links between the internal workings of
SRSA, Provincial Sport and Recreation Departments, SASCOC as well
as NFs and civil society at large which should result in functional,
seamless, coherent, and with cohesiveness and accountability resulting
in excellent performance of the sport and recreation sector.
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Honourable members, finally, I would like to thank the Deputy
Minister, Mr Gert Ootsthuizen, the Director General, Mr Moemi and all
those senior managers who ensure that the grinding mill produces the
staff members of the department. To the department, I say, we must
always remember our central drive on this year of “From Policy to
Practice”: ‘Not Just Another Year’: making SRSA work faster, harder
and smarter, with less.
I would also like to thank the Portfolio Committee on Sport and
Recreation under the leadership of Mr. Richard Mdakani, for his
leadership in the Portfolio Committee and we look forward to the
continued constructive oversight role of the Portfolio Committee in the
implementation of the National Sport and Recreation Plan (NSRP).
I thank the Staff in the Ministry for their commitment and support, and
going beyond the call of duty for the Ministry to stay ahead of the
game. sport and recreation system in 2011 and beyond.
Honourable Members, we therefore present to the Portfolio Committee
2012 – 2016 Strategic Plan and 2012/13 Annual Performance Plan of
the Department of Sport and Recreation South Africa.
Thank you.
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