Hard line taken on "white" sport

[Riprap]

Really now, is this what we want for our sport/recreational fishing in the future!?
No wonder there has been consistent interferences and consulting from SASACC at organized angling level recently, being the link with SASCOC.
The reciprocal could also be true whereby you have to actually have talent to become a politician or you are just another quota allocation.......

Hard line taken on 'white' sport

Failure to field 60% black players will lead to the Proteas, the Springboks and Bafana Bafana being banned from representing South Africa at international events.

This is according to resolutions taken by the Department of Sport following a meeting between Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula and the provincial MECs for sport on Saturday. They discussed a report, released last week, on the status of transformation in the most popular sports , rugby, cricket, netball, athletics and football.

Mbalula said the group decided to increase the 50/50 quota system to 60% representation after noting a "lack of willingness in implementing transformation, especially the enforcement of quotas".

Failure to implement the new quotas would result in withdrawal of any form of funding and support to federations and sport bodies, he said.

"[We will] withdraw the national colours of any federation that is hell-bent on the current set-up and status quo."

Mbalula said his department would block sponsorship of any sports association that was hostile to transformation. Bidding for and hosting sports events would become illegal without government approval.

The 60% requirement would come into effect immediately.

"The Minmec [ministers and MECs] recommended that it must happen right away. We are going to engage and inform rugby and all the other sporting codes that this is something that has to happen.

"[We will be demanding] development plans from the South African Rugby Union, South African Football Association, Cricket South Africa, Athletics South Africa and Netball South Africa as a matter of urgency and with immediate effect."

All the resolutions of the meeting had to be implemented before the new government administration took office after the May 7 general elections, Mbalula said.

Asked about possible resistance from sponsors, he said he had not heard "anybody" argue against the new quota, but he "would cross that bridge when I get there".

"Transformation is not going to be easy so we have to talk to them. I have instructed my people to engage the private sector equally because they are the biggest investors in sports transformation and sports in general," he said.

Saru spokesman Andy Colquhoun, who could not reach the union's CEO Jurie Roux for comment, asked: "Is the minister asking us to implement a quota of 13 black players in Super rugby teams from next Saturday and the Boks from June, for instance? There is a lot that needs to be understood ."

CSA spokesman Altaaf Kazi said it was still waiting for a meeting with Mbalula about the report on the pilot study on transformation.

"We are not in a position to comment on the statement as the minister might want to explain what he meant when he finally meets us," he said.

Sascoc president Gideon Sam agreed that many federations were failing in terms of development.

"We are seeing it for the Anoca Games ['African Olympic Games for youth] in Botswana later this year. Some federations cannot submit teams," he said, singling out shooting and archery.

"Shooting says the problem is that they've been banned from schools [as a sport]," said Sam.

Lions cricket coach Geoff Toyana said: "We are going in the right direction at CSA, but if there is a quota it could help. We have been through the days of black batsmen coming in at Nos 8, 9, 10 and 11, and black bowlers who bat at No9 and don't bowl.

"That doesn't make sense. Transformation is about giving players quality opportunities. We've done that at the Lions and the players haven't disgraced themselves. I'll be happy if something like this happens. I would support it."

Aphiwe Deklerk, David Isaacson, Liam del Carme and Telford Vice | 07 April, 2014 00:00

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[Riprap]

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF THE MINISTER OF SPORT AND RECREATION, MR FIKILE MBALULA, MP, ON THE OCCASION OF THE RELEASE OF THE EMINENT PERSONS GROUP (EPG) ON SPORT TRANSFORMATION PILOT STUDY TO EVALUATE PRELIMINARY TRANSFORMATION STATUS AND THE PRACTICALITY OF TRANSFORMATION CHARTER IMPLEMENTATION: 25th MARCH 2014. JOHANNESBURG.

The Programme Director
The Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation South Africa; Mr Gert Oosthuizen
MECs for Sport and Recreation here present
The Director-General of Sport and Recreation South Africa; Mr Alec Moemi
The President of SASCOC; Mr Gideon Sam
The SASCOC Board Members and CE0; Mr Tubby Reddy
Representatives of National Federations
The Chairperson of the EPG; Dr Somadoda Fikeni
The EPG Members
Honoured Guests
Ladies and Gentleman of the Media

The people of South Africa and sport activists across the globe are well informed of the resistance and protestation against the apartheid policies and practices as they impacted on sport and recreation. Structures such as the National Sport Councils pronounced and fiercely campaigned for Transformation, Unity and Development! The questions that beacons are:
• have we achieved any of the aforementioned noble ideals?
• Do we have a common understanding of what these ideals mean?
Our assertion is that we have not and it is our urgent task to find the diagnosis before we set up the remedy. The perennial challenges will not be resolved by a numbers game called the quotas system. We have stated in the past that the quotas system is unsustainable and counter-productive. However, the National Sport and Recreation Indaba has agreed to continue to implement the quota system in the interim but to put systems in place to face out the quota system in the long run. Beyond, quotas we need a long term and sustainable system from grassroots level based on the massification of the sector from developmental phase to high performance level.

South Africa as a country and her people has come full circle in the political and economic metamorphosis. Sport has always been at the heart of changes that South Africa has undergone over decades of disunity and search for non-racial sport. South Africans have gone through decades of a divided sporting landscape, international isolation, protests underpinned by the call for no normal sport in an abnormal society.

In 1994 the dawn of democracy heralded the beginning of integration, hope and drive to transform the sporting landscape. A plethora of progressive legislation and policies followed the birth of a new Ministry of Sport and Recreation in South Africa. This momentum was given further impetus by the nation building and reconciliation drives manifest in the all-round and popular support for the Springbok Team during the 1995 International Rugby Board Championship and the support for Bafana Bafana during the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations Championship. People from all walks of life, across the racial and age divide threw their weight behind our Teams during this period.

It is now 20 years since the advent of our democracy and our country is still grappling with a skewed, inequitable, unequal and lopsided sporting and recreation landscape. We have recognized this historical injustice much earlier in our engagements in the sector and have already resolved to take practical and concrete steps to deal with this challenge.

In January 2011 the sport fraternity gathered at Misty Hills to chart a new course of action for the development and total transformation of sport and recreation in South Africa. We emerged from that epoch changing Strategic Planning Session with a groundbreaking Road Map to Optimal Performance and Functional Excellence. A road map that characterizes the school sport programme as the bedrock of our sport development and places it at the centre of our transformation trajectory. We agreed in unison that key to attainment of an active and winning nation is the urgent need to build a solid sport infrastructure, to build and revamp existing facilities, to rejuvenate our coaching and training framework, to inculcate a strong club and league system, to promote a strong culture of Olympism.

We are cognizant of the fact that the lack of grassroots structures at schools and club levels is our archile’s heel. Until we get the basics right the dream of an inclusive and integrated sports system will forever be deferred. Women and persons with disability will continue to be unfairly maginalised from participation in sport and reaching their full potential.

As a result we convened in November 2011 a National Sport and Recreation Indaba that produced our first ever National Sport and Recreation Plan. The National Sport and Recreation Plan espouses a vision 2030 which is due for review in 2020. The Plan is a fulcrum around which all our programmes and interventions in sport revolve. One of the landmark resolutions and consequentials of the National Sport and Recreation Indaba is the establishment of a transformation commission to drive the implementation of the transformation charter and its attendant score-card. We have in May 2012 given effect to this resolution by appointing the Eminent Person Group (EPG) on Transformation in Sport. As you have heard from the Chairperson of the EPG, Dr Somadoda Fikeni that the Group is hard at work to bring about the actualization of this National Project.

Given the complexity of the task at hand and the need for the sporting sector to plan for success, the EPG resolved to undertake an independent ‘pilot study to evaluate preliminary transformation status and the practicality of Transformation Charter implementation’. In doing so the Group identified the following sporting codes for the initial pilot evaluation:
• Athletics
• Cricket
• Football
• Netball
• Rugby
It is important to underscore and emphasize the point that the methodology adopted in the production of the report is based on empirical evidence and scientific data analysis process. For the first time in the history of the evolution of sport in our country, we have a pilot performance evaluation system with a summary of the dashboard enabling us to gauge transformation status and indicators. The project will be expanded in 2014 to include 11 additional codes.

The dimensions and variables employed provide us with a tool to gain a thorough exposition of transformation dynamics. In addition the report ventures into specific observations and recommendations which we will on our part implement. Issues of representativity from a race perspective, women and rural dimension, governance, administration, preferential procurement, gender, equity are all well canvassed in the report.

We have fully grasped the nature of the animal we are dealing with at local, provincial and national spheres of government. The report reveals and confirms our observation that we are dealing with an uncoordinated and non-aligned system in the delivery of sport. This issue requires our urgent attention and will form part of ongoing engagements together with SASCOC and the MECs. The report confirmed that we need one sporting system for the entire country that is vertically, horizontally integrated and aligned.

The big question is where to South Africa from here?
The constraints placed by the lack of facilities in our communities pose a real threat and is inhibiting our dream of universal access to sport facilities. As the report points out – without facilities children cannot play, without play there will be no teams and no clubs. To this end, we accept the recommendation of the urgent need to accelerate the finalization of the sport facility status survey and strategy to deal with this major strategic constraint.

The current responsibility for SRSA on MIG is to monitor and support the development of a number of additional sport and recreation facilities servicing poor communities. Following the mandate given to SRSA at the sports Indaba and also at our joint conference with the local municipalities to look into the possibility of transferring and ring fencing the 15% allocation to municipalities. SRSA engaged with National Treasury, and submitted the first and second application towards the transfer of the ring-fenced grant from MIG to the budget of SRSA. The process was put on hold by national treasury and will be reviewed in the 2015/16 financial allocation.

The allocation would enable SRSA to build an adequate facility infrastructure for poorest of the poor municipalities and plan better for affluent municipalities that already have decent facilities and are not utilizing the funds as mandated.

SRSA completed the classification framework, norms and standards revised, sustainability plan and facilities framework. These documents will assist in finalizing the facilities audit that the department is currently working on. The department of science and technology has been consulted to assist in the methodology of the audit.

As we receive the report, we invite Legislatures, Local, Provincial and National spheres of government to frankly interact with the report and join hands in the implementation of the recommendations.

To our federations and sports bodies we are calling upon you to embrace the challenges posed by untransformed codes and clubs. We implore you to demonstrate leadership as everything will stand and fall on leadership.
The great African novelist, Chinua Achebe, once said of his homeland, Nigeria:
“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the land or climate or water or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmark of true leadership”
I therefore implore our federations and sports bodies to take a leaf from Chinua Achebe’s book by leading the transformation discourse and implementing the transformation agenda. We will support you as we have been doing, however if you choose to neglect or undermine transformation we will withdraw our support. This is not a threat but stern a warning to any recalcitrant individuals and sport bodies.

We are for the first time in the course of transformation of sport in our country linking the Funding Framework of sport bodies to the multi-dimensional scorecard of the Transformation Charter. 10% of the funding will constitute the guaranteed component of the grant to be utilized for administration. 90% is the conditional grant component whose expenditure will be measured in accordance with the implementation of the Transformation Charter. Any federation or sport body will be benchmarked according to transformation priorities and failure to comply will result in the withdrawal or with-holding of this component of the grant. In future it will pay to be a transformed federation.

Federations that do not invest in development structures will not receive funding from SRSA until they play ball and put their houses in order.
The National Sport and Recreation Act enjoins the Minister to issue guidelines an requirements for the recognition and registration of federations and sport bodies. From now on going forward we are invoking these guidelines to deregister and not recognize untransformed and wayward sport bodies.
As indicated in the past that hosting and bidding for major events will no longer be allowed without a clear demonstration from the federation that such hosting and bidding will advance South Africa’s developmental agenda.
No Team(s) or individuals participating in major events here at home and abroad will receive Government support if such individuals and teams are not responsive to the transformation needs of their sector.

The national anthem, the national colours and national symbols can no longer be used to honour and decorate events of racist, sexist and divisive sport bodies. Symbols of nation building, of non-racial sport, of unity in sport and social cohesion must be reclaimed as sources of inspiration and triumph of the human spirit over evil.

We are also on record having stated that it is our intention and not a threat, but a clear intention to withdraw the national colours, the national symbols and deregister federations that are not implementing the score-card and thereby subverting transformation.

We have since our deployment to the Ministry of Sport and Recreation been engaged by the private sector raising pertinent matters. These include, among others
• the extent to which principles of good corporate governance are upheld and practiced within the sports sector,
• the level of transparence and utilization of the sponsored funds for sports development and in the interest of athletes, and
• the extent to which Government can ensure that all role-player in the sport sector derive value for money from the sponsorship.
We have been addressing this issue on a federation by federation basis and we have now reached a point of setting up a framework on a systemic way monitoring revenue streams for federations including the National Lottery Fund. We must be able to provide the private sector with useful inputs on where the real needs are in our sector.

We have been approached and we are currently conducting a dialogue with civil society organization to further give impetus to community sport and advance sport transformation more so in rural areas and townships. We need such engagements as there is great deal of generosity and of goodwill out there from sports veterans and ex-players who really want to join hands with us. Let us not shut them out, there is a place for all of us under the African skies and sun.

It is regrettable that in this day and age we are still receiving reports that there are sinister elements in our communities concocting plots of keeping certain sporting codes such as rugby, hockey, cricket and netball as the preserve of white privilege and bastion. We refuse to allow our country to slip into this dangerous path and will do everything to empower all communities especially the poor and neglected areas to take their rightful place in a free and democratic sporting landscape.

We will oversee the establishment of provincial and local transformation committees as recommended in the report. The EPG will further avail itself to sports bodies requiring assistance on achieving transformation targets.
Parliament, Provincial Legislature, Sport Councils, institutions of higher learning, further education and training are invited to join hands with us as we seek to put our sport on a developmental trajectory.

Given the strategic nature of the work of the EPG, I have directed the Director-General, Mr Alec Moemi to provide the requisite support and capacity for the EPG to conduct its business professionally and effectively.

I end by expressing a special word of thanks to the Chairperson of the EPG and all members of the EPG for producing this work of high standard and quality.

Thank you.

[Jim_From_Zim]

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[Bergie]

Brings tears to my eye's to read such a load of crap!!!!! :blue-evil: :blue-evil:

[Rory]

Very quickly turning into a sh1tstorm of note!

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AfriForum to submit complaints to international sports bodies against SA sports institutions implementing quotas

Civil rights organisation AfriForum has warned South African sports bodies that they will be reported to international sport authorities, should they yield to pressure from Government to implement racial quotas. This warning from AfriForum came shortly after the Minister of Sport, Fikile Mbalula, indicated that national sports teams should implement a 60-40 quota system in terms of which 60% of these teams should comprise black players.

According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the regulations issued by almost every international sporting body prohibit any form of racial discrimination and government interference in sport. Kriel pointed out that this is explicitly stated in the Olympic Manifesto of the International Olympic Committee, which is applicable to most sports, as well as the regulations issued by the International Rugby Board, the International Cricket Council and the International Netball Federation.

"AfriForum will not remain passive while the dreams and sporting careers of young people are destroyed by racist politicians and sports administrators. We will not spare any trouble or cost to take up the fight with every international sporting body against blatant discrimination in South African sports," Kriel added.

Kriel pointed out that AfriForum does support the development of sport, which will afford all South Africans an equal opportunity to participate. A race-based quota system does not, however, contribute to the development of new players and merely disadvantages talented sport stars. "Talented black players are disadvantaged by quotas because the validity of their inclusion into teams is always questioned, and young white players are excluded from teams because they happen to be of the wrong race," Kriel added.

Kriel said AfriForum is planning a campaign against racial quotas in SA sports, and the legal team for the organisation is already working on official complaints that will be submitted against sports bodies currently using quotas.

Statement issued by Kallie Kriel, CEO: AfriForum, April 7 2014

[Kassie]

Ja.
That lily-white Protea team that is going to Maguga for Zone 6 in September and then to Mechiko in November will have to be changed or else there will be no more awarding of national colours.
As for those who are listed in the "President's Test" well, lets not go there - imagine - We claim this trophy in the name of Nkandla! :blue-redface:

We need 7 darkies, 2 whities, 1 coloured oke, 1 hindian and 1 bushman as our official make-up of the teams.
Kindly organise that your club's development officer sets in progress the systems needed to meet these criteria.
Yours in bASS fishing - JZ.
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[Shamwari]

jarra Kassie! I laughed my behind off now, awesome email address...bwhaa haaa haa haaa haaa...

Let me wipe the coffee off my screen

[Riprap]

Our sport costs money so will be left to last but the point about national colours and international tests is very valid.......... :eusa_think:

To correct the wrongs of the past, the minister will take guidance from any organisation that supports quotas before talent whether it is logical or not. Once again a rob Peter to pay Paul scenario! Professional sport is a career nowadays, not a hobby Mr Minister!

[Riprap]

Hey Kassie, what would this then be.....sunburnt whities?

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[Kassie]

Are those from your garden Rip?

[Riprap]

If all these silly laws nowadays get passed then Ja, the garden of remembrance!

[Riprap]

What really gets my goat is it’s not that we are against all rules, regulations or legislations. It’s that there are too many outrageous, intrusive, rules to keep track of. Most times it’s very costly and simply not necessary. Some of these regulations are made up by people who have never been in a sports game for that matter and quite simply this almost amounts to harassment!

[Kassie]

Riprap's goat

[nutt]

Time to start a professional sports body embrace the Dollar and piss on patriotism in this country. After all who really cares about beating the Spanish, Japanese or the Aussies at bassfishing, is it not the holy grail of bass fishing "Bassmasters Classic" that turns us all on???

The Americans did this to their governments long time ago so did the pommies. The Chicago Cubs are not the Illinois state team, they are a privately owned franchise, there is a state team but no-one gives a cr@p about that. Manchester United one of the most famous football clubs in the world, a couple of years ago an american wanted to buy them and relocate them to the USA, the British government incentivised them for that not to happen for fear of it becoming a trend and destroying British football and a huge revenue generating industry as well.


Take it away from the arse wipes without a clue I say. We cant even call a blackout a blackout anymore as it isn't PC, its a Previously Lit area!

[Roy]

Ja.
That lily-white Protea team that is going to Maguga for Zone 6 in September and then to Mechiko in November will have to be changed or else there will be no more awarding of national colours.
As for those who are listed in the "President's Test" well, lets not go there - imagine - We claim this trophy in the name of Nkandla! :blue-redface:

We need 7 darkies, 2 whities, 1 coloured oke, 1 hindian and 1 bushman as our official make-up of the teams.
Kindly organise that your club's development officer sets in progress the systems needed to meet these criteria.
Yours in bASS fishing - JZ.
Please email any objections to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:hiidontgiveacrap@nkandla.getoutofmyfirepool.net">hiidontgiveacrap@nkandla.getoutofmyfirepool.net</a><!-- e -->

That is the funniest sh1t ever whahahahahaha!!!! :eusa_clap: