SCHOOL SPORT:

1. SCHOOL SPORT: JOINT PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE FOR SPORT AND RECREATION

2. DUAL PROCESSES MTT SASCOC SCHOOL SPORT DoE/ SRSA DoE/ SRSA

3. MTT PROCESS • Ministerial Task Team (MTT) met and consulted for more than 1 year • REPORTED TO MINISTER • MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS: • Only 2 Macro Structures at national level: Government Department & a NGO • Will be formed from NOCSA, SACGA, DISSA, SASC, SRSA, SASSU & USSASA

4. MTT PROCESS • MTT RECOMMENDATIONS (Cont): • Need to prioritize sport that government fund • Need to establish a National Academy • CABINET • Cabinet endorsed the MTT report and recommendations • ALL PARTIES, INCLUDING USSASA, SIGNED AGREEMENT TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS

5. STEERING COMMITTEE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Government: Mass Participation • SASCOC: High Performance Sport

6. GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES • MASS PARTICIPATION INCLUDES: • All school sport except multi-coded national teams to ISF & COSASSA events • Community Mass Participation Programmes • Social Leagues • Indigenous Games • Student intra-campus sport • Recreation • Talent ID and further development (teachers, educators, etc)

7. SASCOC RESPONSIBILITIES • HIGH PERFORMANCE SPORT: • Team SA presentation and preparation for Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth, All Africa, World Games, (multi-coded games) • Academy System, • Education & Training • Bidding and hosting • National Colours

8. RATIONALISATION PROCESS • ONLY TWO MACRO-STRUCTURES AT NATIONAL LEVEL • SASCOC • GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS – SRSA & DoE • NOCSA, DISSA, SASC, SACGA, USSASA & SASSU EXPECTED TO WIND DOWN AND CLOSE BY DECEMBER 2005 • ALL STRUCTURES HAVE BEGUN TO WIND DOWN, EXCEPT USSASA

9. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONSPORT & RECREATION SA PROCESS

10. DoE/SRSA PROCESS • 1998 DSR / DoE AGREEMENT • 2001 CEPD REPORT • CEPD MODEL • Roles for SRSA/DoE/Prov DSR & DoE • Acknowledgement of the Role of USSASA in School Sport • SRSA / DoE FRAMEWORK • Governance structure within SASC • MTT REPORT • Agreed on minimum programme for 2004

11. DoE/SRSA PROCESS (2) • SRSA expected to deliver – Portfolio Committee • SRSA too dependent on Federations • National Treasury – Remove “facilitate”, “coordinate” and “ensure” – Move into delivery phase

12. DoE/SRSA PROCESS (3) • Govt has to take the lead role in delivering school sport programmes • Collaboration between Sport and Education departments • Integrate all school sport programmes

13. DoE/SRSA PROCESS (4) • FRAMEWORK FOR COLLABORATION SIGNED: • Minister Stofile • Minister Pandor • 17 March 2005

14. THE FRAMEWORK • Transformation of school sport embedded in the transformation of sport in SA • Acknowledges the impediments: • Limitations on participation • Backlogs in facilities and equipment • Lack of participation by Educators & Learners, especially in school located in nodal areas • Lack of capacity and financial resources

15. THE FRAMEWORK (2) • Accepts that Government must play a central and interventionist role in the transformation of sport and recreation • SRSA and DoE are best placed to provide the leadership required to achieve the vision of equity, access, quality and mass participation, curricular and extracurricular activities, including Physical Education programmes

16. OBJECTIVES OF THE FRAMEWORK • To formalise Government’s responsibility for PE and School Sport • To foster a sense of pride and patriotism through properly managed school sport programmes • To ensure and increase access to facilities, school sport and PE • To ensure that Human Movement / PE is provided incrementally

17. OBJECTIVES OF THE FRAMEWORK (2) • To facilitate the integration of PE courses as part of professional teacher development • To develop the capacity of learners to participate en masse • To organise inclusive and integrated school sport programmes • To strategically link school sport programmes to national interventions e.g. substance abuse, HIV & AIDS, crime, etc.

18. MODEL FOR THE LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY & TARGET GROUPS

19. COORDINATION AND MANAGEMENT S&R MINISTRY EDUCATION MINISTRY SRSA DoE NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE (NACOC)

20. COMPOSITION OF NACOC • SRSA, DOE • TEACHER UNIONS (4) • NATIONAL SCHOOLS GOVERNING BODIES (2) • 9 REPS - PROVINCIAL DoE • 9 REPS – PROVINCIAL DSR • SASCOC

21. RESPONSIBILITIES OF NACOC • Sanctioning, coordination, management and monitoring of all national school sport programmes • Ensuring access and mass participation in school sport programmes • Ensuring racial integration, gender equity, rural inclusion, etc. • Synergizing annual planning • Mediating contractual arrangements with sponsors

22. RESPONSIBILITIES OF NACOC (2) • Reports to DoE, SRSA, donors and sponsors • Monitoring the provision and development of infrastructure • Advising the departments on policy and legislative issues • Sharing best practices

23. PROGRESS WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NACOC • Framework document tabled at the Council of Education Ministers (CEM), S&R MinMEC, Heads of Education Departments Committee (HEDCOM), S&R TIC; and circulated among strategic partners, including teacher unions, national associations of SGBs • Stakeholders have been invited to nominate representatives • Nominations received from most stakeholders, including • Provincial Sport & Recreation and Education Departments; • Teacher unions, National SGB associations • Code-specific NACOC subcommittees will be established by December 2005

24. PROGRESS WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NACOC • NACOC HAD FIRST WORKING MEETING ON 29 & 30 JULY • UNIONS, SCHOOL GOVERNING BODIES AND PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENTS WELCOMED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NACOC • SET OUT A TIME TABLE FOR THE ROLLING OUT OF STRUCTURES • PROVINCES EXPRESSED THEIR STATE OF READINESS • PROPOSE THAT NACOC BE LAUNCHED DEC ’05 DURING THE SUMMER GAMES IN PE.

25. PROVINCIAL ROLES • PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENTS TO SIGN AGREEMENTS • REPLICATE NACOC AT PROVINCIAL LEVEL (PROCOCS) • SET UP STRUCTURES AT REGIONAL AND DISTRICT LEVEL • RELAUNCH CODE STRUCTURES FROM SCHOOL TO PROVINCIAL LEVEL

26. PROGRAMMES FOR 2005/06 • NATIONAL ATHLETICS: Primary School in Rustenburg on 18-19 March; & Secondary Schools in Cape Town on 20-21 March • WINTER GAMES: DURBAN, 27-30 June • Approx 3 732 learners and educators • Netball, soccer, volleyball, rugby, chess, basketball, Table tennis & hockey • Government covered all costs • GIRLS GAMES: 05-08 August (Johannesburg) • CROSS COUNTRY, KIMBERLEY, 30 September • RURAL & FARM SCHOOL PROJECT, JHB, 19-21 August (Supported by Transnet) • NODAL SCHOOLS SPORT DEVELOPMENT: JBN, 08-09 December (funded by Transnet) • INDIGENOUS GAMES: NELSPRUIT, 23-26 September • SUMMER GAMES: PORT ELIZABETH, 2 - 6 December

27. PROGRAMMES FOR 2005/06 (2) • NATIONAL ATHLETICS CHAMPS • Secondary schools: Durban in March/April 2006 • Primary schools: Bloemfontein in March/April 2006 • CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMMES

28. DELIVERY OF THE 2005/06 PROGRAMME • DOE & SRSA WILL REQUEST USSASA’S SUPPORT FOR THE 2005 PROGRAMMES • THE DEPARTMENTS (NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL) WILL FUND THE PROGRAMMES • NO LEARNER WILL BE EXPECTED TO PAY

29. MEETING WITH USSASA • DEPUTY MINISTER MET WITH USSASA • INFORMED THEM OF GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO ORGANISE SCHOOL SPORT • REMINDED THEM TO WIND DOWN BY 15 DECEMBER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MTT PROCESS • REQUESTED USSASA TO ASSIST WITH A SMOOTH TRANSITION

30. MINISTER STOFILE’S VIEWS • THE NEED FOR A STRUCTURE LIKE USSASA HAS EXPIRED • GOVERNMENT WILL NOW TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SCHOOL SPORT WITH THE EDUCATORS PLAYING A PIVOTAL ROLE • EXPECT USSASA TO WIND DOWN AS AGREED • CANNOT FORCE USSASA TO CLOSE BUT GOVERNMENT WILL IMPLEMENT ITS PLANS FOR SCHOOL SPORT