Hon Deputy Speaker, I hereby move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that Sport and Recreation SA, German Technical Cooperation, commonly known as GTZ, and the German Development Bank, signed an implementation agreement on the Youth Development through Football (YDF) programme and that the German government has provided E7.5 million for this initiative;
2) recognises that through the delegated agreement, the European Union (EU) will provide funding to the amount of E 6 million to the YDF and that this amount will be utilised for projects in South Africa and ten Sub-Saharan African countries;
3) further recognises that the implementation plans for the project include the training of youth in all nine provinces in development through sport methodologies, capacity building covering nine Mass Participation Programme (MPP) hubs of activity and two non- governmental organisations per province, as well as the implementation of the Africa Legacy Programme in Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya; and
4) welcomes this initiative as it will take sport to poor disadvantaged communities across South Africa and also contribute positively towards the improvement of school sport by grooming young talent from an early age.
Agreed to.