SPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

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SPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

• Presentation to the portfolio committee on sport
  and recreation
• Cape Town - 28 August 2001

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AGENDA

• History
• Activities
• Sporting achievements
• Structures
• Programmes methodology (TID, HPP)
• Funding
• Challenges
• Our commitment
• Cooperation with the portfolio committee
• Conclusion

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History

• South African Paraplegic Games Association formed
  1960 - wheelchair only
• Expanded to include visually impaired, amputees
  and those with cerebral palsy in 1978
• NAPCOSA formed in 1994 which included Deaf and
  intellectually impaired
• DISSA formed in 2001 to incorporate all
  disabilities and programs

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Active Sports

• Alpine skiing
• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Boccia
• Bowls
• Cricket
• Cross-country
• Cycling
• Equestrian
• Golf
• Goalball
• Hokker

• Lawn Bowls
• Netball
• Powerlifting
• Rugby
• Sailing
• Shooting
• Soccer
• Swimming
• Table Tennis
• Volleyball
• Wheelchair dance
• Wheelchair rugby
• Wheelchair tennis
• Baseball

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Sporting achievements

• 1996 Atlanta Paralympics
• 5 world records
• 2 Paralympic records
• 10 gold (athletics, bowls, swimming)
• 8 silver (athletics, bowls, swimming)
• 10 bronze (athletics, bowls, shooting, swimming)
• 41 athletes competed in 5 sports
• 11 black, 28 women

• 2000 Sydney Paralympics
• 8 world records
• 13 gold (athletics swimming)
• 12 silver (athletics swimming)
• 13 bronze (athletics, cycling, powerlifting,
  swimming)
• 64 athletes competed in 9 sports
• 28 black, 28 women

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2001 Sporting Achievements

• Deaflympic Games 2001
• 2 Deaf world records
• 2 Deaflympic records
• 8 gold medals (athletics, swimming)
• 2 silver medals (athletics, swimming)
• 3 bronze medals (athletics, swimming)

• INAS-FID World Athletics Championships
• 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
• CP-ISRA Games
• 9 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze, 2 world records
• World Blind Bowls Championships
• 5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze team trophy

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Structures

• Seven different disability groups
• Amputee
• Cerebral palsy
• Deaf
• Intellectually Impaired
• Les autres
• Visually impaired
• Spinal cord injuries

• Current affiliates
• Physically disabled
• Intellectually Impaired
• Deaf
• Not affiliated (unity process underway)
• Special Olympics

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Status

• DISSA recognised as controlling body for
  sportspersons with disability by
• IPC
• ASCOD
• Ministry of Sport and Recreation
• Sport and Recreation South Africa
• South African Sports Commission
• National Olympic Committee of SA
• Supreme Council - Zone VI
• SA Commonwealth Games Association
• Office on the Status of Disabled Persons
• SA Federal Council on Disability

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Programmes

• Strategy
• Inclusion
• Use of able bodied sports structures
• Development in SCSA Zone VI
• Focus
• Effective grass roots structures
• Development of regular competition at local level
• Identification and nurturing of talent

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Methodology

• Coordinated approach on delivery (uniformity
  through inclusion)
• Development of a comprehensive database and
  informative website
• Establishment of unified DISSA provincial
  structures
• Presentation of Provincial and National
  Championships (on an inclusion basis where
  possible)
• Establishment of disability specific sports code
  bodies serving all disability groups
• Implementation of inclusion agreements with
  able-bodied federations

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Talent Identification and Development

• Local events
• National championships
• Interprovincial championships
• Zonal (local) competition
• SCSA Zone VI competition

• People development
• Coaches courses
• Technical officials courses
• Athlete development
• Classifiers courses
• Administrators courses
• Development projects
• Sports days

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High Performance Programme

• Effective programs focused on developing
  identified athletes, classifiers and officials
  with potential
• Selective attendance at international sports
  meetings for experience and qualification
• Support of regional competition within Africa to
  provide additional competition opportunities
• Focus on sports that have the capability of
  reaching gold balanced against representivity
  (disability, gender, rural and disadvantage) and
  individual vs team sports
• Cooperation with the Sports Information and
  Science Agency and CSIR

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Funding

• Acceptance that we have to develop our own
  funding sources
• Current sources
• Government (less than 5)
• Sponsorship (limited to major events and
  programmes)
• Mainstream sports federations (through inclusion
  programmes)
• Current budget 2001-4 R22 million for
  Paralympic sport

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Challenges faced

• Costs equipment
• Accessible facilities
• Transportation parking
• Inclusion and the education system (different
  definitions, training of educators)
• Attitudes
• The media and access (improving)
• Confusion between the roles of SRSA and the
  Sports Commission

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Our commitment

• To facilitate inclusion at all levels while not
  compromising service delivery to our constituents
• To work with all disability groups
• To work with all able-bodied federations
• To promote sport for the disabled in Zone VI
  the African Decade on Disability
• To promote equity issues within our structures
  gender, disability, rural, black, HIV/AIDS status
• To ensure that every person with a disability can
  reach their full sporting potential

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Partnership with the portfolio committee

• Encourage inter-governmental department
  coordination (health, welfare, sport
  recreation, education)
• Address disability grants
• Address problems with transport
• Address facility coordination and accessibility
  built, to be built, hire costs
• Encourage physical education in schools with
  educators trained
• Coordinated national programme vs provincial (and
  municipal) competence
• Issue to be top of mind for constituency work

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Conclusion

• Eliminate duplication
• Cooperate with other sports bodies
• Close cooperation with Government at all levels
• Dedicated and hard working people
• staff
• volunteers