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SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS COMMISSION

• PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON SPORT
  AND RECREATION
• 1 APRIL 2003

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OVERVIEW

• This presentation sets out to provide an
• overview of the following
• Vision
• Mission
• Values
• Strategic Thrusts
• Flagship projects
• Services in support of flagship projects
• Budget
• Conclusion

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VISION OF THE SASC

• To lead South Africa to world-class sporting
  excellence.

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MISSION OF THE SASC

• In pursuance of the above vision the SA Sports
  Commission seeks to create a nation of
  world-class sportsmen and women by improving
  opportunities for all South Africans to
  participate in sport and recreation.
• We will work in partnership with our stakeholders
  by striving to meet their human resources and
  infrastructure needs.

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MISSION OF THE SASC (CONT)

• We will ensure that the management, promotion and
  co-ordination of our sport and recreation is
  administered with excellence.

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VALUES OF THE SASC

• Integrity
• Innovation
• Excellence
• Efficiency
• Teamwork

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STRATEGIC THRUST ONE

• 1.Manage, promote and co-ordinate the provision
  of sport and recreation.
• 1.1.Develop and implement a national sports plan
  and ensure that accessible facilities,
  participation, competition and club
  infrastructure exist and are professionally
  managed.
• 1.2.Improve the quality of national and
  international sports events that are hosted by
  South Africa.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST ONE

• Mass Participation
• 1.1. Indigenous Games
• To revive and promote Indigenous Games in South
  Africa and beyond.
• Publish a manual on Indigenous Games that
  addresses the standardized Indigenous Games,
  rules of the games and guidelines on how to play
  the games - 2003. One of the Indigenous Games,
  Ncuva, is being computerized.
• 230 Indigenous Games facilitators has been
  trained in all nine provinces. These facilitators
  has been empowered to provide further training in
  the provinces.
• Establish network on Indigenous Games with Zone
  VI countries and beyond.
• Host an Indigenous Games festival 4 6
  September 2003.
• Participate in TAFISA traditional games in
  Montreal July 2003.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST ONE (cont)

• Mass Participation
• 1.2. Recreation
• To promote recreation in South Africa and to
  ensure proper recreation delivery infrastructure.
• A first meeting took place with provinces on
  planning for a National Walk (Big Walk) August
  2003. Celebrities will be approached to join in
  this initiative.
• Continue and enhance links and cooperation with
  other government departments, public entities,
  etc e.g. Correctional Services.
• An memorandum of understanding will be signed in
  April 2003 between the SASC, DCS and NFs to
  introduce sport and recreation activities in
  correctional centers.
• Facilitate the participation of previously
  disadvantaged participants in World Gymnaestrada
  that will take place 2003.
• Aerobics instructors have been trained in three
  province (NW, EC and Gauteng). After training
  they will run aerobics classes for the community
  in the regions. When more funds become available
  this project will be extended to the other
  provinces.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST ONE (cont)

• Mass Participation
• 1.3. Junior Dipapadi
• To empower care givers, teachers, community
  leaders, federations and sport and recreation
  officers in the area of junior sport as well as
  to increase the talent identification pool.
• Junior Dipapadi workshops took place in all
  provinces where project coordinators were trained
  to implement programmes in the provinces. The
  SASC made examples of Junior Dipapadi equipment
  available to all provinces. The focus in the next
  financial year will be on introducing sporting
  activities to children in previously
  disadvantaged areas in close cooperation with
  provincial governments.
• Modified sports festivals took place in three
  provinces (Mpumalanga, KZN and WC). The sports
  that have been modified are volleyball, netball,
  cricket, rugby, soccer and handball. Because of
  the success of these festivals it will also be
  introduced in other provinces.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST ONE (cont)

• Mass Participation
• 1.4. Women and Sport
• To create opportunities for women and girls to be
  more prominent in sports participation and
  administration.
• A Commissioners Committee has been established to
  address transformation including Women and Sport.
• The terms of reference of this Committee has been
  finalized.
• A policy document on Women and Sport is in its
  final stages of development.
• The SASC hosted a successful Women and Sport
  Workshop on 24 and 25 March 2003 to address the
  structure and implementation of projects.

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STRATEGIC THRUST TWO

• 2.Ensure participation in international and major
  national events.
• 2.1.Identify talented athletes to ensure that
  South African teams are fully representative.
• 2.2.Provide access to scientific support,
  training, life skills development services,
  coaching as well as ensuring a supportive social
  environment in order to increase the number of
  medals and test matches won by South Africa.
• 2.3.Team delivery.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO

• High Performance Programme
• 1.1. Team Preparation
• To facilitate the implementation of scientific,
  medical and technological support services in
  order to enhance South Africas international
  sports performance. ( focus for 2003 is the AAG)
• Build on and improve partnerships and networks
  with new and established service providers. At
  present there are 16 accredited service provider
  institutions providing the following services
  sports medicine, sports psychology, sports
  nutrition, sports vision, sports technology,
  physiotherapy and physical. 36 NFs are being
  provided with these services and 250 athletes
  were assisted in 2002/ 2003. An amount of R 200
  000 has been allocated for 2003/ 2004 which is
  only sufficient to assist approximately 25
  athletes despite applications from NFs for more
  than 1000 athletes.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• High Performance Programme
• 1.1. Team Preparation
• Re-structure the services and financial
  allocations to elite athletes.
• Monitor the services rendered by service
  providers to athletes and NFs.
• Direct and evaluate implementation of the HPP.
• Establish a life skills infrastructure to address
  the general welfare of SA elite athletes and
  their support team. Facilitators trained by the
  SASC will implement this project in the
  Provincial Academies of Sport. The modules for
  this project will be developed by the SASC and
  will amongst other cover financial skills, HIV/
  AIDS, touring skills, legal contracts and
  conflict resolution.
• Finalize, update and maintain high performance
  programme database.
• Revise and update HPP web page.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• High Performance Programme
• 1.1. Team Preparation
• Empower SA athletes with leading edge sports
  technology.
• Establish a multi-coded national coaches
  association to be in place April 2004.
• Establish a multi-coded athletes association to
  be in place April 2004.
• Improve the performance of elite athletes through
  the application of relevant research.
• Assist SASSU with the scientific preparation of
  athletes who will be competing in the World
  Student Games taking place in August 2003 in
  Korea.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• High Performance Programme
• 1.2. Sports Academies
• To establish, monitor and mentor a sports academy
  infrastructure that is resourced to identify and
  support athletes in an effort to improve their
  sporting performance.
• Establish, monitor and mentor a sports academy
  infrastructure.
• 8 of the 9 Academy Managers already appointed.
• Office and administration infrastructure in
  place.
• Academy of Sport Blue Print finalized.
• Voluntary association constitution in place.
• Initial allocation received from National
  Lotteries Board (Sport and Recreation
  Distribution Agency.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• High Performance Programme
• 1.2. Sports Academies
• Challenges for 2003
• Project implementation.
• Forge clearer working relationships with
  stakeholders (SASC, Prov Depts, and NLB).
• Play supporting role to SA Games.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• 2. All Africa Games
• 2.1. Team Presentation
• To deliver Team South Africa to major multi-coded
  event, All Africa Games, ensuring a high level of
  performance by SA athletes.
• Co-ordinate, manage and provide effective systems
  ensuring efficient delivery of Team SA to the All
  Africa Games 2003.
• October 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria.
• 22 Sporting codes.
• More than 450 athletes and managers from SA.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• 3. Zone VI Games
• 3.1. Team Presentation
• To deliver Team South Africa to major multi-coded
  event, Zone VI Games, ensuring a high level of
  performance by SA athletes.
• Co-ordinate, manage and provide effective systems
  ensuring efficient delivery of Team SA to the
  Zone VI Games 2003.
• The 2003 Zone VI Games have been cancelled by
  Malawi, the host due to financial constraints. We
  are awaiting decision by either Botswana or
  Mozambique to host the Games in 2005.

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FLAGSHIP PROJECTS UNDER THRUST TWO (cont)

• 4. SA Games
• 4.1. Talent identification and development
• To increase SA youth sporting excellence and
  promote national unity through a multi-sport
  event.
• Co-ordinate, facilitate and monitor preparations
  for the 2004 SA Games.
• Next Games April 2004.
• Host Eastern Cape Province, Buffalo City
  Municipality.
• Approximately 4500 participants expected.
• Approximately 13 sporting codes including
  disabled sport.
• Closely linked to academies.
• These two programmes i.e. SA Games and Academies
  are our major transformation tools.

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STRATEGIC THRUST THREE

• 3.Ensure the provision of resources.
• 3. 1.To provide information, financial and
  logistical resources for the development of
  athletes (participants/ recreation
  practitioners).

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STRATEGIC THRUST FOUR

• 4.Policy development and implementation.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS

• Client Services
• 1.1. Monitoring of Federations
• To facilitate the establishment and maintenance
  of structures that enhance the development,
  capacity building and efficient management of
  sport at all levels.
• Provide policy documents for the regulation of
  sports (awarding of national colours, recognition
  criteria, procedures for dispute resolution,
  etc.).
• Monitor NFs on structural (clubs, composition of
  EXCO/ technical officials/ players,
  transformation and unity) and organizational
  issues (good governance, development plans,
  business plans, strategic plans and programmes/
  projects).
• Award national colours to deserving athletes and
  managers.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• Client Services
• 1.2. Sports Management and Liaison
• To assist NFs with development, strategic
  planning and financial management.
• Assist NFs with development plans.
• Develop a guide for strategic planning for use by
  NFs.
• Present nine provincial workshops on strategic
  planning and development plans.
• Present two financial management workshops.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 2. Organized Participation
• 2.1. Bidding and Hosting
• To assist clients in effectively bidding for and
  hosting of national and international events of
  major importance.
• Facilitate and develop an integrated national
  strategy for bidding and hosting of national and
  international events of major importance.
• Develop and monitor the implementation of
  policies that guide and control the bidding and
  hosting of both national and international
  events.
• Assist those federations and organizations that
  have been granted permission to host events of
  major national importance in co-coordinating/
  managing the event.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 3. Education and Training
• 3.1. Sport and Recreation Administration and
  Management
• To empower administrators and managers and to
  improve the standard of sport and recreation
  administration and management in SA.
• Complete education and training programmes and
  modules to enhance basic and advanced SR
  administration and management in compliance with
  the NQF (level 4 and 5).
• Facilitate the development of facilitators packs
  for basic and advanced team management.
• Facilitate the development of training programmes
  for Events Management.
• Facilitate the development of a database on
  trainers, administrators and managers trained.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 3. Education and Training
• 3.1. Sport and Recreation Administration and
  Management
• To empower administrators and managers and to
  improve the standard of sport and recreation
  administration and management in SA.
• Facilitate the training of Team Managers of the
  SA team to the World Police and Fire Games that
  will take place in Barcelona during July and
  August 2003.
• Facilitate the training of SASSU Team Managers of
  the SA team to the World Students Games that will
  take place in Korea during August 2003.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 3. Education and Training
• 3.2. Facilities Management Skills Development
• To develop the human resources responsible for
  the management of sport and recreation
  facilities.
• Monitor and facilitate the capacity building of
  facility managers in the Advanced Facility
  Management training programme at NQF level 5.
• Develop a framework for a National Facilities
  Plan.
• Encourage and support provinces to deliver
  community-based approach workshops.
• Complete the translation of community-based
  approach to Facility Management booklets into
  other SA languages.
• Establish a database on trainers in Facility
  Management.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 3. Education and Training
• 3.3. Generic Coaching Skills and Technical
  Officiating Programmes
• To increase the number and uplift the standard of
  coaching and technical officiating in sport.
• Facilitate the development of a Generic Coaching
  Skills and Technical Officiating Programmes at
  NQF level 5.
• Facilitate the pilot training of Generic Coaching
  Skills.
• Facilitate the development of a facilitators pack
  for Generic Coaching Skills and Technical
  Officiating.
• Facilitate the accreditation of course material
  in conjunction with THETA.
• Facilitate the layout, illustration and printing
  of the Generic Coaching Skills and Technical
  Officiating Programmes.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 3. Education and Training
• 3.4. Course Presentation and Facilitation Skills
  in Sport and Recreation
• To empower sport and recreation officials to
  become presenters and facilitators.
• Facilitate the completion of the development of
  the S R Facilitation Skills Programme for
  presenters and facilitators to comply with NQF
  level 5.
• Facilitate the pilot training of Facilitation
  Skills in S R.
• Facilitate the development of a facilitators pack
  for Facilitation Skills for S R.
• Facilitate the layout, illustration and printing
  of the Facilitation Skills in S R training
  programme.
• Facilitate the accreditation of the course
  material in conjunction with THETA.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 4. Provision of Resources
• 4.1.Information and Research
• To acquire, manage and disseminate sports and
  recreation information to create a knowledge
  base.
• Maintenance, hosting and expansion of the
  Commissions website .
• Finalizing and selling mega-event website product
  (with specific reference to AAG 2003). Providing
  website for AAG.
• Construction and support of in-house databases
  including contact, events, volunteers, as well as
  ongoing developments of mega-events management
  database.
• Collection, collation and storage of unique sport
  information publications for public use.
• Publication and distribution of YOUR SPORT
  magazine, including mailing list and postage.
• Production and distribution of Sport Management
  Toolkit CD.
• Obtain and disseminate information on statistical
  data that will enable the sporting community to
  plan better for sport.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 4. Provision of Resources
• 4.2. Funding and Resourcing
• To provide financial and logistical support for
  the Commission and its clients.
• Procure and establish a pool of resources which
  will be used for programmes of the SASC and its
  clients e.g. donors, business, lottery, etc.
• Provide systematic support to NFs which have a
  growth potential, but lack the infrastructure.
• Assist NFs in benefiting from drawing the
  expertise of their counterparts internationally.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 4. Provision of Resources
• 4.3. Sports Museum
• To unify the nation and build national pride
  through the revival of our national sporting
  heritage.
• Implement the findings of a feasibility study for
  a Sports Museum.
• Coordinate partnerships and resource support for
  the establishment of the Sports Museum.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 5. Legal and Policy
• 5.1. Legislative Drafting
• To use statutory powers to regulate sport and
  recreation in terms of the Acts.
• Advice on the draft and amending of.
• Drafting of regulations as envisaged by Act 109
  and 110 of 1989 as amended.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 5. Legal and Policy
• 5.2. Contract Drafting and Advice
• To ensure that all transactions entered into by
  the SASC are legally valid and the protection of
  the interest of the SASC.
• Draft contracts and advise management about the
  legal implications of transactions.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 5. Legal and Policy
• 5.3. Intellectual Property Management
• To register and protect SASC intellectual
  property and monitor licensing programmes.
• Ensure acquisition and protection of intellectual
  property.

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SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF FLAGSHIP PROJECTS (cont)

• 5. Legal and Policy
• 5.4. Recognition criteria development
• To ensure a regulatory framework that guides the
  recognition of SASC clients.
• Develop a national colours framework and a
  monitoring mechanism for the use of those
  colours.
• Manage the commercialization of national symbols/
  emblems such as the King Protea and Springbok by
  NFs.

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SOUTH AFRICAN SPORTS COMMISSION

• CONCLUSION