I am compelled to start without the Minister. I heard the hon Holomisa posing very strong words that he was not happy with the situation, but it is hardly the Chairperson's fault. I was ready at 10:00.
Mr Chairman, on a point of order, Sir: It certainly is not your fault, and we understand and respect that, but it is incredibly disrespectful to this House and to Parliament in general that the hon Minister has not yet arrived, and we are about to start. I have never known this precedent in the past, sir, and I do sincerely hope that there will be some kind of sanction against the Minister from Parliament for his late arrival here today. Thank you.
Chair, if I may address the Chair: Whilst we respect the sentiments expressed by the hon Ellis, I just wish to place on record that circumstances can occur in traffic or wherever that may cause a delay to our hon Minister, and I really would request the Chair to discard the remarks made by the hon Ellis. Thank you.
Please, hon members ... [Interjections.]
Chair, that is absolutely unacceptable, Sir. You cannot disregard what I've said. The fact of the matter is the hon Minister ... [Interjections.]
Hon Ellis, could you take your seat, please?
... is late, sir, whereas the rest of us were here on time.
Can you take your seat, please? I didn't say that I was going to disregard what you said. What you said is already on record. I call upon the Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation.
Chairperson and hon members, since the appointment of Minister Mbalula, a liveliness has been experienced in the department, and this liveliness is to the benefit of every South African. This past weekend, another young man, whom many people may not have regarded as a factor to be reckoned with, excelled beyond all our expectations.
Mr Chairman, on a point of order, sir: I think the House needs to know whether the Deputy Minister is now reading the Minister's speech or whether this is his own speech, because normally one responds to what the Minister has said. Now, we need to understand, sir, exactly where we stand here.
Deputy Minister, are you able to answer that question?
Chair, yes, I may, if it doesn't eat into my time. Normally, the President appoints a Minister and a Deputy Minister, and we speak to the whole department.
No, the question is simple: Is the speech yours, because you are also on the speaker's list, or the Minister's?
Yes, it is my prepared speech, hon Chair. It forms part of a holistic approach we take in the Ministry and the department.
So, it is his speech. He can continue.
Mr Chairman, the point I would like to make is that when it comes to the opposition parties speaking, and particularly the spokespersons from parties, they want to respond to what the Minister has said. Now, I want to point out again that this is an embarrassment that the Minister is not here.
Hon Ellis, I understand that very well. We are trying to do the best we can with the given situation, and we have asked the Deputy Minister to speak.
Thank you, hon Chair. I was saying that this past weekend, another young man, whom many people may not have regarded as a factor to be reckoned with, excelled beyond all our expectations. This young golfer not only proudly flew the South African flag at the US Masters, but he has also proven to the world, once again, that South African sportspeople can be world beaters. As a department, we pay tribute to Charl Schwartzel for his magnificent performance at the US Masters.
Sport and recreation is a force to be reckoned with, a sector that can contribute to the achievement of many of the government priorities, ranging from social cohesion and nation-building to job creation and contributing significantly to our gross domestic product - evidence of which we are expecting soon in research that has been commissioned by the department.
This is the first Budget Vote from our department after we successfully hosted the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. As South Africans, we are proudly looking back at the legacy of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup that stretches beyond the obvious tangibles: the stadia, the roads, the airports, the infrastructure, and the new equipment acquired for the police, emergency medical services and other government service points. Never before had the country, with all its people, rallied together united in its support of the national football team as it did during the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. Never before were campaigns such as Football Friday and Fly the Flag so successful in uniting the entire nation in support of our national team and country. It truly was one team, one country.
Our department fulfilled its mandate by monitoring the construction of stadia to ensure that they complied with Fifa standards, and we also ensured that all the deadlines were met. We facilitated the training of volunteers and mobilised South African and African support.
Another key area of responsibility of our department was to oversee the delivery of the 17 guarantees signed by government departments with Fifa. This was done successfully, and all 24 projects emanating from the guarantees are now part of our proud legacy.
I am happy to report that South Africa, through the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, also made valuable contributions to international initiatives such as global warming. During the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, the Green Goal Programme, as an environmental management programme, was successfully launched in all nine provinces.
Looking back at 2010, there is no doubt that the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup has changed our country forever. In terms of nation-building, social cohesion and leaving a legacy, no other event has ever, or could ever, come close to this one. The challenge now is to take the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup experience forward, to invest in this experience for the future of our children and of our country. The tournament has ended, but the legacy must live on and inspire us in the way we work. I have no doubt we will also achieve this as a country, summa cum laude. Governments worldwide have become increasingly supportive of greater investment in sport as an industry. There is a new global drive to utilise the potential of tourism, sport and mega events to the benefit of countries and humankind worldwide. This drive resulted in the UN World Tourism Organisation and South Africa hosting an inaugural summit on tourism, sport and mega events in Johannesburg in February last year. The summit was a resounding success, with participation from 35 countries. Our department forged valuable networks and friendships with local and international role- players in the field of sports tourism. The wider perspective that this brings, combined with the new access to this knowledge network, will assist us to do what we do in a much smarter way.
We have a partnership with the Department of Tourism which is aimed at forging closer working relationships between the tourism and sports industries within South Africa. The aim is to maximise the tourism value for major sporting events. The first priority of this partnership is the formulation of a sports tourism strategy for the country, which will be finalised in 2011. In fact, it will form part of the legacy of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. As there is a need for an accurate register of major events, we are working with, and giving direction to, our national federations that are planning to bid for events that we see as strategically fit to host as a country.
This year, we will also see the partnership between our department, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Tourism. We will host the first of its kind Sports and Events Tourism Exchange in Cape Town during July. This "confex" will focus attention on the world-class standard of facilities and services that South Africa has to offer as a host. In short, it will be an exchange between sport tourism and the events industry. Running alongside the exhibition component of the exchange, we will be holding a comprehensive and informative international Sports and Events Tourism Exchange conference, also during July.
Chairperson, I want to focus attention on transformation. Many talk about this concept; some reduce it to colour and quotas, others correctly extend it to the mindset of those in charge. By and large, sports leaders are inward-looking. This is why it is so easy to run abroad to buy a ready-made player, official or coach, even when the country has the requisite skills. Together with the Department of Home Affairs, we are working on tightening the administration of our laws to protect the integrity of our country. We have said in the past and we repeat it today: transformation is non- negotiable.
However, we are also acutely aware, when we say this, of the role played by control over the economy in accessing opportunities. After all, apartheid was never just a political programme. It was an economic and class issue too. We are too knowledgeable to ride roughshod over this matter. Transformation needs scalpels, not assegais. To this end, we as a department will use our budget to intervene at the amateur levels of sport. We want to do that because market forces cannot help us here, because our experience is that they have no sympathy for the poor.
The governance of sport, in a different context, has been in the news in recent months. We are aware of the lack of good governance in some federations. Let me say that we know it is an issue that the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, Sascoc, is addressing. There are, however, inconsistencies in the way that federations address bad governance, similar to the way that different sanctions are handed down in terms of the World Anti-Doping Code for the same offence.
If we are to be able to confirm that we subscribe to the principles of good corporate governance, we need to take tough action. It should not matter that someone is our friend, is a volunteer or has done good work in the past. Bad governance hits at the heart of the organisation and betrays not only the athletes but also the supporters of the organisation. We have to act firmly to ensure that our sport federations are properly managed, are transparent and serve the best interests of our athletes.
Taking cognisance of the audit findings on the 2009-10 annual report, we have tightened our internal control systems to ensure optimum and impeccable accountability, underpinned by our commitment to good corporate governance. We shall not rest until we can present to you a report that is not only unqualified but also completely clean. As far as our personnel are concerned, we are looking into the internal capacity of the South African Department of Sport and Recreation to deliver on its mandate. We are in the process of filling critical positions, including that of our director- general, Mr Vernie Petersen, who sadly passed away this year.
This process is coupled with a review of the organisational structure to strengthen the department in line with the increased challenges that require a lean and enabled operational capacity. As we present this Budget Vote today, we are proud to intimate that this year we will be reporting expenditure in excess of 99% of our allocated budget.
A week ago, our hon Minister launched the National Sports Indaba. To this end, we have clearly identified our vision and strategic goals for sport and recreation in our country. We have developed a roadmap for the department and have ensured alignment with the key policy issues as captured in our updated White Paper.
As a next step, we have started the process of developing a national sport and recreation plan. This plan will manifest the implementation plans of the sport and recreation policy directives of our government. Underpinned by the White Paper, the national sport and recreation plan will contribute to addressing the key strategic issues that can take South African sport to the next level.
The draft national sport and recreation plan will be discussed at nine provincial indabas scheduled for July 2011. Together with inputs from the portfolio committee, the select committee, Sascoc, and the national federations of other stakeholders, we hope to finalise and approve the first-ever official national sport and recreation plan for our country at our National Sports Indaba in August 2011.
The envisaged theme of this indaba is "From Policy" - in other words the White Paper - "To Practice", the sport plan, and the tagline we are using is "More than just playing". The main objectives of the indaba are to clarify and put into action the policy directives emanating from the revised White Paper that also capture the strategic directions of our roadmap and, secondly, to facilitate the collective buy-in from all stakeholders into the national sport plan, to streamline implementation towards common objectives, to elevate public awareness of the national sport plan by means of an effective and targeted media campaign, and to finalise the transformation charter and scorecard for South African sport.
Chairperson, without a co-ordinated, integrated and aligned sport system within which all component parts are focused towards a common set of goals and objectives, the potential value of sport to the South African society cannot be fully realised. All sectors must buy in and commit to the strategic direction that would emerge from the National Sports Indaba. The responsibilities of all role-players are substantial. It is clear that they will never be adequately realised without formidable partnerships in place.
Furthermore, it is important to recognise that sport on its own cannot fulfil all the sport development needs in the country. To this end, under the leadership of Mr Mbalula, Sport and Recreation will liaise with other government departments and the private sector. The aim is to establish strategic alliances, ensuring the appropriate co-ordination and alignment of programmes, structures, strategies and funding. As a department, we are committed to work in a spirit of ubuntu in finalising the national sport and recreation plan.
Chair, let me say this: We know that the winning nation will then walk tall, and the respect we will have earned as competitors, as hosts, and as pioneers in sport will have further cemented the rainbow nation of Madiba. I thank you. [Applause.]
Thank you, hon Deputy Minister. I see that the Minister has arrived. I must say, hon Minister, that I know you may have had valid reasons for being late. In my view, your audience here - sport and recreation - is supposed to be a happy type of family, but we started with such acrimony and adversity that it disconcerted the entire House that you were late and not here when we started. I know that you have valid reasons for that, but I must say that you disconcerted the House for being late. Minister, are you ready? I now call upon the hon Minister of Sport and Recreation.
Chairperson, cabinet colleagues, former Minister Dr Ben Ngubane, Members of Parliament, ladies and gentlemen: I want to apologise for my late arrival because of reasons beyond our control. It was not intentional; I've always been on time for the Budget Vote on Police. Today, when we were coming here, we experienced mechanical problems with our car which held us up, as well as heavy traffic. As you can see, I'm optimal in terms of attending this session. With due respect to all members, there was no intention to undermine the House.
Today, we have the singular honour of presenting this Budget Vote No 20 of the Department of Sport and Recreation in the presence of sport administrators, coaches and the crown jewel of our country, the players themselves. We salute all and welcome the personalities and luminaries present here in the gallery for gracing this occasion with their presence.
Chairperson, allow me to pay tribute to the late Director-General of Sport and Recreation, Mr Vernie Petersen, whose untimely death robbed us of a dedicated, committed and experienced public servant. As we thrust ahead towards the centenary of the ANC in 2012, reflections on the long road traversed occupy our daily thoughts. It is palpable that those vistas give way to lessons learned and the long road that still lies ahead of us in achieving a better life for all, an inclusive economy and intersocial cohesion. Our zeal for common purpose, our zing for optimal excellence, and our zip for unity of purpose push us ahead and energise us to wake up every morning to do more for a better life for all our people.
Chairperson, allow me at this first Budget Vote after the successful hosting of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup to pay homage to the extraordinary willpower, fortitude and unity of purpose which was demonstrated by our people, united by the common desire to assail. It opened a window on South Africa and Africa that made the world see us with fresh eyes for the first time. They found in Africa and South Africa a peaceful people, a working infrastructure, spectacular natural scenery, world-class facilities, a vibrant culture, first-class accommodation and a soulful connection with humanity - a celebration of an outstanding African success story.
This excellence resonate the values and virtues of our renewed vision of the Department of Sport and Recreation. This fundamental shift in paradigm is anchored in our overarching strategy, our new road map for optimal performance. This road map, our vision which was developed together with the federations and provincial departments, seeks to reposition our functional efficiencies, accelerate service delivery, enhance organisational excellence, and inject new performance energy.
As you would notice, contrary to ordinary trends, what we present before you is a budget characterised by shrinkage from a staggering R1,225 billion in 2010-11 to R802 million in the 2011-12 financial year. On aggregate, in the 2007-08 financial year it stood at R5 billion, and today it stands at R802 million - an annualised decrease of about 40%.
Of course, the downswing can be attributed to the prior years' budget for the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. However, maintaining and managing the legacy created, which includes the repositioning of the department, demands in real terms increased expenditure, and not the opposite.
Our budget structure reflects absolute resonance with our strategic priorities in our strategic planning document, as presented to Parliament. The bulk of our budget still goes to mass participation, which seeks to unlock the value of school and community sport.
Our country is still witnessing a sporting environment where there is a skewed picture of sporting facilities and opportunities. It is the responsibility of this government fundamentally to change the status quo and to ensure that South Africa's national teams and amenities are a true reflection of South Africa's population. At the same time, we call upon Parliament and the people of the Republic of South Africa to join hands with us in our campaign to provide a fresh perspective and impetus on transformation, a perspective that posits equality, unity, access and excellence at the centre of our national discourse.
We want to achieve inclusivity and consensus on what each federation or club's contribution is or will be towards the realisation of the priorities of national objectives. In order to ensure that our actions are focused and directed, the department together with the stakeholders have started a process of drawing up a transformation charter which will apply to all sports organisations. The transformation charter will be a product of extensive and wide-ranging consultation and robust debate.
We are finalising a collaborating pact with the Department of Basic Education as our immediate task of reviving school sport, particularly in rural areas and townships. We believe the future of the South African youth lies in positioning schools as incubators and nurseries for talented and professional sportspersons.
One of our football luminaries, Dr Steve Mokone, known as "Kalamazoo", who is the first black professional football player in South Africa, modern England and the Netherlands, wrote to commend us on our programme to prioritise school sports codes. He writes, and I quote: Such an aggressive push is long overdue. Not only will such a development help in improving the standard of play in the different sports, it will also assist in promoting the health of our youth.
We are also grateful for the initiative of the Premier Soccer League, the PSL, and Supersport in the school sport programme. The PSL and Supersport together with Sport and Recreation South Africa, the SRSA, will be launching a tailored programme of twinning schools with PSL teams. The project will be launched in May to coincide with the launch of the school sport programme.
We are partnering with the SA Rugby Union to revive rugby on a national scale. We also want to take this opportunity to congratulate the University of Cape Town team for winning the Rugby Varsity Cup. Accordingly, we salute the Rugby Sevens as a strategic platform for development, and their sterling performance of winning no fewer than two World Cup series.
By the same token, we wish to congratulate Zanele Situ from Mthatha who won the gold medal in javelin in the Paralympics in Sydney as a disabled person in a wheelchair.
Our collaboration with the Congress of Traditional Leaders, Contralesa, is beginning to yield results. Together with Contralesa, we have identified rural communities where we will be directing our mass participation programme initiative on a national scale. The department will be launching one such programme in Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape over the Easter holidays.
Equally, we are working with Sascoc to carry out the responsibility of building a boxing multipurpose centre in Mdantsane, the mecca of boxing in South Africa.
The glaring absence of sport and recreation facilities in our schools and communities can no longer be tolerated, and 16 years into our democracy, we have to break this dreadful infrastructure backlog, particularly in disadvantaged communities. To address this anomaly, we are engaged with the Department of Human Settlements and the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs to ensure the seamless roll-out of school and community sport and recreation facilities.
Recreation remains an epicentre to cultural identity, community development and social integration. We will be lifting and escalating and raising the focus on this functional area. In the same vein, we will also be streamlining recreational associations and appointing a ministerial advisory committee to advise and assist in detailed conceptualisation of this field.
The advancement of sport and recreation development in our country does not only rely on public funding, but also on various stakeholders, including nongovernmental entities and foreign donor funding. Inspired by this reality, Sport and Recreation South Africa continues to maintain and strengthen its relations with the European Union and the German government.
As a result of these relations, during the next financial year, we will receive a total amount of more than E6,4 million, which will be allocated to three areas, as follows.
Firstly, a total amount of E1,6 million is allocated for youth development through football earmarked strictly for South Africa. Secondly, a total amount of E330 000 is allocated for youth development through football earmarked for the rest of Africa. Lastly, an amount of E1,5 million is allocated for Youth Development Against Violence through Sport.
We are escalating our campaign to mobilise more resources from the private sector and the international donor community to support our fledgling youth camps programme and talent development programmes.
Achieving and unlocking the value and potential of our mandate and priorities demand that the baseline allocation to the Department of Sport and Recreation be increased and augmented in the immediate future, and we will be engaging National Treasury in this regard. We view this proposition with the outmost importance.
In our brief time in office we have engaged with most of the federations, and we will continue these engagements with others we have not met.
We must state unambiguously that we are not going to allow the Ministry to be turned into a fire-fighting brigade by individuals within the federations who have no national interest or pride. We are guided by principles of transparency, fairness and good corporate governance. We will work, as we do, with any organisation or individual that stands by these principles. Federations must get their houses in order, and we will continue supporting them with every possible resource we have at our disposal.
Federations and individuals are cautioned to desist from binding themselves and committing to hosting major events before getting Sascoc and government approval. Procedures, guidelines and rules on bidding must be followed. Those who do not comply with these prescripts will have to face the consequences.
We owe it to all South Africans to ensure that the R800 million allocated by Fifa to the Fifa Legacy Trust is utilised for sport development, especially in rural areas and townships. We have appointed the most senior official from our department to ensure that we achieve this objective and that there is transparency and accountability to the nation and government on the disbursement and utilisation of the funds. We have just completed a report on the social cohesion and nation-building impact of the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. The findings indeed confirm that the World Cup notched up and had a significant positive impact on social cohesion and nationhood, social integration and sustainable livelihoods. We will be requesting the Speaker of the National Assembly to allow a debate on the lessons drawn from this report.
To this end, as we announced earlier on, we shall stage a football extravaganza between the world champions, Spain and Africa XI, in July 2011. This football extravaganza is organised in all humility to thank the people of Africa and all fellow patriots who were involved in this event of local and international significance.
Allow me once again to bring to us and the broader South African populace our collective memory of those who died at Ellis Park on 11 April 2001. Ten years on, we should bow our heads and remember those 43 people who came to watch a great game and were met with this unfortunate event. Let their memory never fade. Sport and Recreation South Africa has formulated guidelines on the safe hosting of these events, and the Safety at Sports and Recreational Events Act was promulgated in August 2010.
I am happy to announce that the updated White Paper on Sport and Recreation has been finalised. The purpose of this White Paper is to pronounce on government's policy regarding sport and recreation in South Africa.
As we all know, there is a significant need for a revised central and unified sport and recreation policy framework, encompassing new initiatives and co-operation within a wider network of role-players.
The year 2011 has been, and will be, another exciting year of international sporting events for Team South Africa. The national netball team will be travelling to Singapore to participate in the international championships in July. We must continue in the spirit of Magnificent Friday to support Amantombazana during their quest to lift the trophy and make us proud.
The mighty Springboks will travel to New Zealand to defend their 2007 World Cup title. With the good mix of new youthful talent and experience in the Springbok team, I am confident that if they stick to the structure that brought them success against England in 2007, they have all the potential to reach the semifinals and finals, and triumph.
Banyana banyana, the national women's football team, are two victories away from qualifying for the Olympic Games in London in 2012.
The All Africa Games will take place in September 2011 in Mozambique.
South Africa is on the road to the London Olympic Games in 2012 and we will triumph.
We will continue working with Sascoc for the successful hosting of the 123rd International Olympic Committee General Assembly Session in Durban from 1 to 9 July 2011. This event will also be an opportunity to put South Africa and our perspective on the world map in areas of sport development, and will be attended by several heads of state, royal families, sport personalities and administrators from around the world. This will further be an opportunity for the three cities bidding to host the 2018 Winter Games to present their bids to the International Olympic Committee, the IOC. The winning city will be announced via a live broadcast during the conference.
These major events contributed tremendously to the economic output of our country. Sport economy, as a matter of fact, contributes enormously to the country's gross domestic product, and continues to grow, with downstream employment creation, entrepreneurship and economic integration.
We will continue to turn around the operational mode on how we conduct our business as a department and portfolio of sport and recreation, and to realign our outputs to our strategic national outcomes. This we do, fully aware that it will be a long, arduous struggle which will require vision, determination and commitment. It is incumbent upon us to work in unison, to construct a social compact with all stakeholders that will harness our collective resolve, underpinned by our shared values and common vision. As the Japanese proverb goes, and I quote:
A vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Hon members, finally, I would like to thank the Deputy Minister, Mr Gert Oosthuizen, the acting Director-General, Ms Sumaya Khan, and all those senior managers who ensure that the grinding mill produces the products and supply. To the department I say: We must always remember our central drive of this year of action, making government work faster, harder and smarter, with less hindrance - and I am not quoting a bank slogan.
I thank the Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation and Mr Butana Komphela for his leadership in the portfolio committee, and we look forward to the committee's continued constructive oversight role. I thank the staff in the Ministry for their commitment and support and going beyond the call of duty for the Ministry to stay ahead of the game. Last but not least, I thank my beloved wife and my two daughters for their undying support and understanding of my ever busy schedule. We are combat-ready to join all South Africans in the battle trenches for a nonracial, nonsexist, democratic, accessible, integrated and united sport and recreation system in 2011 and beyond.
I also want to congratulate Mr Charl Schwartzel for winning the Masters Golf tournament in the United States of America. [Applause.]
Hon members, we therefore present to the House Budget Vote No 20, the Budget Vote of the Department of Sport and Recreation. I thank you very much and once more apologise for arriving late. [Applause.]
There is a slight change to our programme. I will call upon Mr Van der Linde.
Agb Voorsitter, agb Minister, agb Adjunkminister, agb lede, verskillende lede van die verskillende sportfederasies hier teenwoordig, dames en here, ons sport het die afgelope jaar gemengde welslae behaal.
Ons kan inderdaad begin deur hulde te bring aan die hele Suid-Afrika vir die aanbieding van die Fifa-sokkerwreldbekertoernooi wat voorwaar 'n reusesukses was. Vanuit 'n finansile oogpunt was dit ook vir Fifa een van die mees winsgewende toernooie. Vir ons in Suid-Afrika is daar seer sekerlik nog vrae wat onbeantwoord bly oor die groot bedrae geld van die departement wat aan basiskampe bestee is en waarvoor daar tot op hede geen ouditverslae gekry is nie.
Dat sport 'n samebindende faktor in Suid-Afrika is, is gewis. Suid- Afrikaners was verenig agter Bafana Bafana en, toe hulle uitval, ook agter Ghana. Dieselfde het ons ook gevind in die geval van die pas afgelope Krieketwreldbekertoernooi. Ongelukkig was ons in albei gevalle nie so suksesvol in ons strewe na die wreldkroon nie.
Ons wil ook hulde bring aan die sportsterre wat die afgelope jaar presteer het. Hier dink ons onwillekeurig aan Louis Oosthuizen se oorwinning in die Britse Ope-gholftoernooi; Lee-Anne Pace se talle oorwinnings in die Europese vrouegholfreeks, waar sy die eerste plek verwerf het; die uitmuntende vertoning van ons gestremde atlete wat altyd ons land se naam hoog hou; en die Suid-Afrikaanse vrouehokkiespan wat ook besig is om hul posisie in wreldhokkie te verbeter.
Alle eer gaan ook aan ons onlangse sportpresteerder Burry Stander met sy oorwinning, saam met sy Switserse spanmaat, in die ABSA Cape Epic fietswedren, wat 'n eerste vir Suid-Afrika was. Gelukwensing gaan ook aan Charl Schwartzel met sy oorwinning in die Amerikaanse Meesters- gholftoernooi - nie die "US Open" nie, Adjunkminister. Dit was werklik 'n indrukwekkende en spannende laaste rondte van 66 houe, en sodoende 'n oorwinning van twee houe om die groen baadjie te ontvang, 50 jaar n die legendariese Gary Player dit vir die eerste keer vir Suid-Afrika gewen het.(Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Mr J J VAN DER LINDE: Hon Chairperson, hon Minister, hon Deputy Minister, hon members, various members of the different sports federations here present, ladies and gentlemen, our sport has met with mixed success over the past year.
We may indeed start by paying tribute to the whole of South Africa for hosting the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup, which was indeed a huge success. From a financial point of view the tournament was also one of the most lucrative for Fifa. For us here in South Africa there are certainly still questions, which remain unanswered, concerning the large amounts of money of the department that were spent on base camps and for which no audit reports have been received up to now.
The fact that sport is a cohesive factor in South Africa is certain. South Africans were united behind Bafana Bafana and, when they were eliminated, also behind Ghana. We have also found the same thing happening in the case of the recently completed Cricket World Cup. Unfortunately, in both cases we were not particularly successful in our efforts to win the world crown.
We would also like to honour the sports stars who achieved over the past year. In this instance we remember Louis Oosthuizen's victory in the British Open Golf Championship; the numerous victories of Lee-Anne Pace in the European women's golf series, which took her right to the first position there; the proud display by our disabled athletes, who are always upholding the good name of our country; and the South African women's hockey team, which is also currently improving its position in world hockey.
All credit should also be accorded our recent sporting achiever, Burry Stander, with his victory, together with his Swiss team mate, in the ABSA Cape Epic cycling race, a first for South Africa. Congratulations also go to Charl Schwartzel with his victory in the US Masters Golf Tournament - not the US Open, Deputy Minister. This was a truly impressive and tense last round of 66 shots, and as such a victory of two shots, enabling him to receive the green jacket 50 years after the legendary Gary Player won it for the first time for South Africa.]
They make all of us proud, and this should motivate us to do even more.
When we engage with the budget, we must be aware that we have a new Minister. Minister Mbalula must be commended for his initiative in setting up a consultative session with key role-players in sport and recreation shortly after his appointment. The purpose of the session was to structure and align integrated delivery plans for identified focus areas.
Further deliberations followed, which resulted in the department's ten strategic outcome-orientated goals. The various goals are commendable. It is this kind of intervention which will improve the culture of sport at all levels and that will lead to the advancement of especially our rural areas and disadvantaged schools.
The DA shares this vision of the department and is privileged to be party to this noble cause. The outcome of these programmes will do a lot to achieve the desired outcome of improving the performance of our athletes. This demands that we assess the gains that we have made in the past financial year in terms of putting sport within the reach of all, providing sports facilities and empowering our youngsters with the necessary skills to reach their full sporting potential. In discussing the budget, we must know how far it addresses the different goals.
Die begroting is vanjaar beduidend kleiner as die vorige jaar, naamlik R802 miljoen teenoor R1,255 miljard die vorige boekjaar. Dit is toe te skryf aan die finansiering vir die 2010 Fifa-sokkerwreldbekertoernooi, wat die bedrag van R452 miljoen beloop, wat in die vorige boekjaar vir Fifa beskikbaar was en tot 'n einde gekom het. Hierdie daling is egter kleiner as die R560 miljoen wat in die 2010-11 boekjaar aan die 2010 Fifa- sokkerwreldbekertoernooi toegewys is. Dit dui dus op 'n styging in die toewysing in sekere afdelings.
Nrens word daar egter begroot vir die instandhouding van die 2010 wreldbekersokkerstadions nie. Tans wil dit voorkom asof dit onbekostigbaar vir sportliggame en -klubs is om dit te gebruik. Gasheerstede kan nie uit hul eie begrotings die instandhouding bekostig nie en moet dit aan die gebruiker, wat dit ook nie kan bekostig nie, deurgee. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[The budget is significantly smaller this year than in the previous year, namely R802 million as opposed to R1, 255 billion in the previous financial year. This may be ascribed to the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup funding, which amounted to R452 million, that was available to Fifa in the previous financial year and has come to an end. This decrease, however, was smaller than the R560 million allocated to the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup in the 2010-11 financial year. This indicates an increase in the allocation within certain divisions.
However, nowhere has budgeting been done for the maintenance and upkeep of the 2010 Fifa World Cup soccer stadiums. Currently, it appears to be unaffordable for sporting bodies and clubs to use these stadiums. Host cities are unable to afford the maintenance and upkeep from their own budgets and have to pass this on to the user, who is also unable to afford it.]
A greater awareness of soccer as a code has been created, as well as great possibilities for the use of stadiums, for example, to enhance tourism programmes. However, then it needs to be affordable to use the stadiums.
As deel van die 2010-nalatenskapprojek is dit verblydend dat die sokkervereniging, Safa, beoog om 52 kunsgrasvelde regoor die land in al die Safa-streke op te rig. Hiervan is fondse vir die eerste 27 beskikbaar, en di sal binne die volgende drie jaar opgerig word. Indien hierdie fasiliteite veeldoelig is, sal dit van die behoeftes wat die platteland het, aanspreek. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[As part of the 2010 legacy project, it is heartening that the football association, Safa, envisages establishing 52 artificial grass pitches right across the country in all the Safa regions. Of these, funds are available for the first 27, which will be established within the next three years. If these are multipurpose facilities, they will address some of the needs in the rural areas.]
Administration has increased by R21,8 million. This is due to increased municipal and office administration charges and new office accommodation for the department. In my speech last year, I argued for more funding, especially for Sport Support Services. Their allocation had decreased by R22,1 million. I am therefore pleased to see a huge increase of R53,3 million in this area. If we examine this increase, R4,5 million goes to Boxing South Africa as a tax bail-out. This is a long-outstanding debt to the Receiver of Revenue which poor Boxing South Africa would never be able to pay. We are hoping that this amount will help them get their ducks in a row in order to achieve a clean audit. The committee and the Minister are of the opinion that everything must be done to deregulate boxing to enable them to function like any other national sports federation and be guided by their own constitution.
We appreciate the increase of R1,6 million allocated to the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport, based on their request last year for more funding. This will allow them to perform more tests and strengthen their education outreach programmes. It is money well spent because the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport has had clean audits for the past few years.
Die volgende doring in die vlees is gewis loveLife. Di liggaam kon nog geen bewyse voorl van die mate waartoe hul programme by di van die federasies of skolesport inskakel nie. Dit is werklik ontstellend dat R30,4 miljoen, 'n verhoging van R1,7 miljoen teenoor die vorige boekjaar, aan loveLife toegewys is. Dt, ondanks verto van alle politieke partye dat daar na die kontraktuele verpligtinge van die departement en loveLife gekyk moet word.
Agb Minister, ek het ook probeer kyk na watter van u strategiese doelwitte loveLife aanspreek, of waar u doelwitte by hulle inskakel. Ek kon geen verband sien nie. U sal indringend oor u kontraktuele verpligting teenoor loveLife moet besin en uitwys in hoe 'n mate hulle in die sportopset inpas. Oral waar loveLife sportbyeenkomste aanbied, is dit chaoties en niemand weet wie in beheer is of wie die fondse voorsien en of daar fondse beskikbaar is om die sportbyeenkoms te rel nie. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[The next thorn in the flesh is certainly loveLife. This organisation has never been able to provide proof of the extent to which their programmes fit in with those of the federations or school sport. It is indeed distressing that R30,4 million, an increase of R1,7 million on the previous financial year, is being allocated to loveLife. This, despite appeals by all political parties that attention should be given to the contractual obligations of the department and loveLife.
Hon Minister, I have also been trying to see which of your strategic objectives loveLife is addressing, or where your objectives are fitting in with them. I could not find any connection. You will have to reflect in depth on your contractual obligation towards loveLife and indicate to what extent they fit into the sporting arena. Wherever loveLife presents sports gatherings, things are chaotic and nobody knows who is in control or who is providing the funds, and whether there are funds available for arranging the sports gathering.] How far has loveLife progressed in attaining our sporting goals? Minister, school sport needs much more funding than the allocation which has been set aside for them. What we now need to ask ourselves is whether we still need loveLife. Why not channel these funds into school sport? The national federations will be able to produce more value for this money.
The biggest problem in our sport is a lack of, or no, sporting facilities, especially in the rural areas. We need serious and speedy political intervention to rectify the shortages and also a commitment of what will be done to address these shortcomings. I want to commend what the SA Sports Trust is doing in erecting facilities and giving equipment to rural communities with the small budget that they have.
Dit is verblydend om te sien dat die bedrag aan sportfederasies vanaf R27,8 miljoen tot R54,3 miljoen verhoog is en dat dit in die volgende twee boekjare nog aansienlik verder verhoog sal word. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[It is heartening to see that the amount allocated to sports federations has been increased from R27,8 million to R54,3 million and that this will still be increased considerably during the next two financial years.]
Minister, it is hoped that the goal of transformation will be met, as more funds are now available. Federations should submit reports to the department and the portfolio committee. It is normally the bigger federations that submit reports to us. For the past two years, very few of the smaller federations have been called in for their reports. This leaves us with the question as to what progress, if any, has been made in the transformation of our sport.
Do all our sports federations have a transformation agenda, and not one on paper only? Do the smaller federations attempt to spread their wings to the rural areas? Hockey, for example, was more active and healthy in our rural areas during the times of compulsory quotas. Currently, the code is slowly being phased out in these areas, as nothing is done to create the necessary facilities.
Our athletes and administrators need to know that transformation in sport is not negotiable. It is part of our constitutional directive and it should be part of our government agenda. Minister, we need your political intervention to avoid codes being or becoming totally selective.
The mass participation programme receives the biggest chunk of the budget, namely R502,1 million. The objectives of this programme are to encourage active, lifelong participation in sport; sustain the legacy associated with the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup; and promote physical wellbeing by facilitating school sport. All these objectives are very noble. However, the entire programme highlights major risks that are a clear indication that the department cannot reach these objectives. Even Treasury has concerns regarding the capacity of the department to fulfil the objectives of this programme.
Van die bedrag beskikbaar - omtrent R502 miljoen - is slegs R27,3 miljoen beskikbaar vir skolesport. Verbeel u: R27,3 miljoen vir skolesport waar loveLife R30,4 miljoen kry!
Agb Minister, ons wil sorg dat ons op internasionale vlak presteer, maar u en die regering is traag om die probleme in skolesport van die afgelope paar jaar op te los. Die ANC het skolesport doodgemaak, maar sloer om 'n werkbare oplossing vir skolesport daar te stel. Ons verwag kwaliteit en resultate van ons nasionale spanne en atlete tydens internasionale byeenkomste, maar is nie bereid om op voetsoolvlak in skolesport te bel nie. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Of the amount available - approximately R502 million - only R27,3 million is available for school sport. Just imagine: R27,3 million for school sport, whereas loveLife receives R30,4 million!
Hon Minister, we want to ensure that we achieve at international level, but you and the government are reluctant to solve the problems experienced by school sport in the past few years. The ANC has killed school sport, but is tardy in implementing a workable solution for school sport. We expect quality and results from our national teams and athletes during international gatherings, but we are not prepared to invest in school sport at grass-roots level.]
Let us be bold and start putting school sport back in the hands of the teachers.
Minister, die grootste hartseer na soveel jare van ANC-bewind is dat ons nog steeds met skole op die platteland sit wat geen geriewe het om hul sport te beoefen nie. [Minister, the greatest heartache after so many years of ANC rule is that we still have schools in rural areas that have no facilities to practise their sports.]
Minister, how is it possible that, in this day and age, and after 17 years of ANC rule, the majority of public schools in South Africa do not have sports fields to practise and play on?
Dit is dus onmoontlik vir atlete om hul potensiaal te ontwikkel omdat fasiliteite ontbreek of nie bestaan nie, en dit ernome koste behels om by proewe in groter stede te kom, oefenkampe in groter stede by te woon en by toernooie uit te kom. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[As a result it is impossible for athletes to develop their potential because facilities are lacking or non-existent, and because it involves huge costs to reach trials or attend practice camps in larger cities and get to tournaments.]
The lotto has billions of rands that they do not spend. What is so difficult about using the money to erect facilities at schools in rural areas, in particular? Municipalities cannot avail money for sporting facilities. They do not have the necessary funds. Ensure that the lotto and the government avail funds for this purpose. Ensure that the said funds are used for this purpose: If the goal is to erect 100 facilities, that exact number of facilities should be erected. So, if the goal is 100, after 17 years, the number of facilities erected should have been 17 multiplied by 100. That means 1 700 schools could have had facilities by now. What can the department or government show us at this stage in this regard?
Daar moet ernstig gekyk word na die Lotto-verspreidingsagentskap. Te veel fondse word nie aangewend nie. Dit wil ook voorkom asof sekere kodes voorgetrek word by die toekenning. Ek weet van 'n aansoek agt jaar gelede vir 'n hokkieveld in Beaufort-Wes wat goedgekeur is, maar die fondse is tot in di stadium nog nooit ontvang nie. So ook is daar 'n geweldige behoefte aan 'n Olimpiese-grootte fietsrybaan in die Suid-Kaap. Verskeie aansoeke is aan die lotto gerig, sonder enige sukses. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[Serious attention should be given to the Lotto distribution agency. Too many funds are not being utilised. It also appears that certain codes receive preference when the allocations are made. I know of an application made for a hockey field in Beaufort West eight years ago, which was approved, but the funding has still not been received at this stage. Similarly, a pressing need exists for an Olympic-sized cycling track in the Southern Cape. Various requests have been made to the Lotto, without any success.]
Minister, it is of the utmost importance that you ensure that the problems of schools are resolved. In 2010, there was no national schools tournament for volleyball. Children were selected to provincial teams at enormous expense to the provinces and it created a great deal of expectation. A high level of despondency has descended over teachers. This is not only the case with volleyball, but with most of the schools national tournaments.
In conclusion, we will witness the All Africa Games and the Rugby World Cup this year, with the Olympics and Paralympic Games in 2012. We wish the teams well in their preparations for these events. I thank you. [Applause.]
Dankie, agb lid, al het ek nie alles verstaan nie, want di besigheid van hulle werk nie! [Gelag.] Maar ek hoop u het 'n goeie toespraak gemaak. Baie dankie. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[The TEMPORARY HOUSE CHAIRPERSON (Mr A Mlangeni): Thank you, hon member, even though I did not understand everything, because this business of theirs does not work! [Laughter.] But I hope you made a good speech. Thank you very much.]
Chairman, on a point of order: If you couldn't follow everything, the hon member is quite prepared to say it all again, sir.
Mr Ellis, I didn't recognise you. [Laughter.]
Hon Chairperson, hon Minister and hon Deputy Minister, the ANC supports the Budget Vote. We want to pay tribute, hon Minister and Chair, to the late Comrade Vernie Petersen, a man who had turned around our department. We speak today with pride that we have an unqualified report. This, hon Minister, is the result of the toil and sweat and late nights at Parliament by your department and ourselves, because we wanted to get things right. The department had an appetite to get these things right. We want to say to all the officials: Well done! This is exactly what we wanted from you. Thank you very much. [Applause.]
Hon Minister, before I say any other thing, I just want to remind my colleague - maybe he has just forgotten - that the question of facilities at school level is right, but I don't want him to coin it in that way. I don't want him to ask: Minister, what is the problem with facilities at schools? I want him to say: Minister, what is the problem with facilities at the majority of black schools? That is the question. [Applause.]
I have an answer here, and I am going to give him the answer. I want him to say to the Minister: Thank you, Minister, through our programme called the Building for Sports and Recreation Programme, we managed to build 444 basic facilities in a year, even in the Karoo. Hon J J, when you go home, at a place called Matjiesfontein there is a basic facility that we have put there. [Applause.]
Chairperson, hon members, I want to raise two things. Firstly, I want to raise the issue of the division of revenue grant. I am happy that our leaders and colleagues from the provinces are here. The division of revenue grant, hon Minister, if not given quick attention, is going to create a qualified report for us, because provinces report very late, and some do not report at all. The Auditor-General has already mentioned that we are going to have problems around the division of revenue grant.
The proposal that the committee is putting forward, Minister, is that there should be nine people in your department, each dedicated to a province. This will ensure that this huge amount of the division of revenue grant is accounted for, so that it grows and helps our children in the rural areas to get facilities. The second matter I want to raise is the one that was raised by hon J J van der Linde. Hon Minister, we have not yet received empirical evidence of the impact of loveLife, which gets a whopping R30,4 million. However, this department is not the only one that gives loveLife this kind of funding. It gets R40 million from the Department of Social Development; it also gets money from the Department of Health. The total amount that loveLife receives is bigger than what we are giving to these federations. However, nobody can write home about the impact of the money that is given to loveLife.
Therefore, let us discuss the issue of loveLife. Is loveLife simply a vehicle for us to make our budget look big, or should we rather make sure that loveLife has an impact on the Department of Sport and Recreation? We must shape it the way we want it or get rid of it because, to us, it has no impact. [Laughter.]
I want to raise a last point with the Minister, which concerns National Lottery Board chairperson Joe Foster. Minister, there is a problem with the lottery distribution. The lotto is a player and a referee at the same time. Joe Foster and even the standing chairperson of the lotto say that there is a serious conflict of interests. When we ask these honourable gentlemen to recuse themselves, the lottery cannot form a quorum.
We cannot go on with the situation like that indefinitely, where people are given their own federation for purposes of election but the money is still sitting with the lottery. This is an issue we must look into. I am prepared to go with you, not to be a good boy - I know you are not one - but so that we can deal with this matter. This serious conflict of interests does not do sport any good, because at times they use this money for campaigns to run over the dead bodies of other people.
Hon Chairperson, Sol Plaatje made the following observation, and I am quoting it in answer to what hon J J van der Linde is talking about:
Awakening on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.
This statement, hon members, captures vividly the pain, humiliation and distress of millions of our people who suffered through the exercise of power by the racist white Parliament that created a landless and destitute people. This understanding is as relevant today as it was on 20 June 1913. We are unable to roll out basic facilities today, hon Minister, because of the nonavailability of land to schools. You find schools occupying closed areas of land. Where could there ever be space for a yard or toilets for children? Where are you going to put sports facilities, when schools from traditional black communities are placed in such an awkward situation?
Hon members, the Natives Land Act of 1913 was not only an instrument for the creation of cheap labour, but also the basis for the erosion and destruction of family life, cultural life and the economy of African people, blacks in particular. The squatters from a particular section of the black community had no basic facilities, especially those affected by the Land Act. There is no such thing as a white squatter; I have never seen it. Although it was insisted that the law applied to Europeans or whites and natives or blacks, I want to say that the conclusion cannot be avoided that it was directed exclusively at natives.
I am deliberately drawing this relation between the nonavailability of land for facilities and the 1913 Land Act, which was a sad and unfortunate incident. That is why we are battling today to get these facilities right.
Chairperson, we had public hearings on the Budget Vote. One of the persons who made an input was a Dr Bhorat. He reminded us of our founding vision during the unity talks.
Sport, to us, plays a huge part in the history of our lives. Dr Rubusana, the first president of the Border Native Cricket Union, and a prominent church leader and political figure in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was voted to accompany a deputation of five delegates, led by the ANC president Dr Langalibalele Dube, to England to meet Her Majesty the Queen to put before her the plight of the native people who were landless in the country of their birth.
The legendary Dr Abdurahman was the president of the Western Province Coloured Cricket Board and the African Political Organisation, known as the APO, the first major coloured political organisation in the early 1900s.
Hon members, there were talks in this country to unify sport. Kimberley took a lead in the formation of the first national sports organisation in South Africa in both cricket and rugby. The association of both black and white was started in the city of Kimberley.
After the approach by the white cricket association, following the D'Oliveira affair in 1968, the African Cricket Board and the white administrators were in regular contact. These contacts developed into an alliance, resulting first in the 1969 Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC, tour and then the Springbok tour to Australia in 1972, which was cancelled because of apartheid.
Both the government and cricket bodies increased their efforts to talk to each other about issues of sport. That led to the formal meeting of the national bodies controlling cricket in South Africa in Johannesburg in 1972, and we were accepted in the international arena. South Africa celebrated a surprise win over Australia in Christchurch in New Zealand in 1992. Our own comrade, the late Comrade Steve Tshwete, hugged the South African captain, Kepler Wessels, and his tears on that occasion symbolised the huge turnabout of South Africa that all of us today have witnessed.
The decision for change by all federations led to the formation of the transformation monitoring committee. I want you to listen to this: The transformation monitoring committee was to prove the seriousness on the engagement with change by sportspeople themselves. This committee was formed in Johannesburg in 2000 by renowned sports personalities, the likes of the late Khaya Majola, Ashwin Desai, Ray Mali, Andre Odendaal, Imtiaz Patel, Maxwell Jordaan and Dr Salojee. Transformation was at the top on the agenda of these gentlemen.
In the mid-1990s, complaints began to surface about a glass ceiling and a lack of thorough change in cricket and in sport in general. Many felt that while white development was being trumpeted, black cricketers were making little headway at provincial and national playing levels.
Also, despite the fact that the administration at the cricket board was politically in charge in practice, the old-establishment officials were still running the show and acting as gatekeepers, producing the old power relations and ways of thinking, with neutral-sounding "merit" arguments often cited as justification for not selecting black people. Anybody who talks about merit rather than equality is deliberately sidelining those who do not have facilities, because the argument of merit becomes the issue rather than equalising opportunity. Let us put people on an equal footing and then ask: Who is the best of the two?
Calls were made for transformation at a more fundamental level in cricket and in sport generally. These calls were echoed in a broader demand for delivery and change after the rainbow nation euphoria that accompanied the advent of democracy and Nelson Mandela's ascension to the presidency.
Despite the new atmosphere in the country, there were and still are strong feelings within the black majority that concrete changes are slow in coming, up until today. While expectations were high, the delivery of houses, schools and economic opportunities for those who suffered under apartheid proved to be more difficult for the new government.
From 1996 onwards, there has been a clamour for transformation to be speeded up. It was on this platform of transformation and delivery that Thabo Mbeki become President in 1999. The ANC romped home in 1999, when it got 60% of the votes in the second democratic election. Our people had hope, and they are still prisoners of hope. Our people still have hope that one day these basic facilities will be delivered to them.
One of our sports codes, cricket, recognised this pressure and were ready for change. The United Cricket Board spent 18 months going through the length and breadth of this country, gauging the feelings and formulating a new strategy. To cricket, the seriousness of these workshops were linked to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In an emotionally charged session, cricketers from vastly different backgrounds and areas spoke openly about their anger, hurt and wishes for the future. That process culminated in a national vision conference in Johannesburg in 1998. A hundred and twenty delegates in that conference adopted the transformation charter. I want us to understand the context of the transformation charter that was envisaged by those gallant sportspeople and the charter that we are talking about today.
The transformation charter and pledge to the nation commits sportspeople to operating with a new culture and ethos, in an African context, so that cricket and sport in general can become a dynamic reflection of South Africa's young democracy. The transformation charter covers ten main strategic areas or thrusts for the future, with redress and representation being the key ones. The transformation monitoring committee was formed to ensure the implementation of the new vision for sport and to help draft a practical three-year plan and business plan from the strategic areas identified.
In conclusion, the issue of the legacy of sports facilities must be tackled head-on. Those who have the land must have the appetite to render help, so that we eradicate the remnants and the glaring symbols and signs of apartheid and the 1913 Land Act. I thank you, Chairperson. [Applause.]
Chairperson, on behalf of Cope I would also like to extend our condolences to the family of director-general Petersen and pay tribute to him for the outstanding work he did with the department.
In the 2009 Budget Vote debate, I told then Minister Stofile to strive to maintain the funding so that the strategic plan and goals of the department could be achieved. Sadly, the budget for 2011-12 is R802 million, compared to the R5 billion allocated in 2007-08, as the Minister quite rightly pointed out. Admittedly, this fund was for 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup infrastructure. However, Cope firmly believes that the department is now hopelessly underfunded to achieve its goals.
Chairperson, Minister Mbalula has brought a fresh and energetic approach to sport in our country. His passionate commitment to school sport, transformation, infrastructure development and our being leaders in global sport is commendable. He has also encouraged local governments to grant leases to sports clubs that are progressive. The above objectives that the Minister is pursuing emanated from the roadmap outlined in the department's strategic plan of 2011-15. Cope supports these initiatives.
As an active sports administrator, I understand the critical issues facing people on the ground and the demands they are making. The department must address the lack of opportunities, facilities, funds, transport - and by that I mean getting to practices or fields to participate - and adequate nutrition in the rural and previously disadvantaged areas.
South Africans want to be the best sporting nation in the world. We want to create a winning nation that can achieve social cohesion and nation- building. To allow the people what they want and to achieve the objectives that the department has set out, a comprehensive and fully inclusive plan of action must be created.
Cope supports the National Sports Indaba to be held later in 2011, which will map the way forward. Minister, we request that the strategic outcomes of this indaba remain sports related and do not have an ideological slant. If that happens, it will impede nation-building and deter potential sponsors from investing in South African sport, and also impede our quest to be the number one sporting nation.
Cope proposes a plan to help transform sport and at the same time create opportunities for all our young people in rural, township and developed areas. Currently, we have the legacy programme from the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup rolling out sporting facilities, and the department has its objective of creating high-performance centres. Cope would further propose that an indaba be called where government, multinational corporations, sports federations and other stakeholders seek consensus in developing and funding centres of excellence and academies in identified areas of our country, and on the co-ordination of the abovementioned programmes currently under way. Our young people need them to develop their full potential and in order one day to represent our country.
We envisage that these centres of excellence that are strategically located will initially support the major sports codes in the main, and develop coaches, first-aid personnel, sports managers and nutritional advisers. These centres, created through public-private partnerships should, in our view, use the Zululand Rugby Academy as a model, which we believe is unique in both development and in transformation in South Africa. Minister, I will send you a copy of that model. We believe that the kind of indaba that we are proposing will identify where some 50 or so centres should be developed within the next three years, which is the term of office of this government.
The budget of 2011-12 in the main addresses most of the issues with the limited resources available to the department and the Minister. However, Cope has serious concerns about the following - the problem with being the fifth speaker is that a lot of these issues have been covered. Firstly, loveLife has been allocated R30,4 million. This is a disgrace! This is a third budget debate, Minister, in which I have argued against this particular issue. Cope demands an audit of how these funds have been spent.
Secondly, Boxing South Africa and the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport together receive R18,4 million. That is R12 million less than loveLife.
Thirdly, school sport this year is allocated R27 million. This is R3 million less than loveLife. School sport remains a priority for the department, the Minister and the portfolio committee, and yet funds allocated to school sport have been decreasing progressively over the past five years.
Fourthly, the oversight of Boxing South Africa is another matter deserving attention. Cope believes that the appointment of members to the board needs to follow a process similar to the one used for the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa and the SA Broadcasting Corporation.
The smaller federations, and not only the big three all the time, ie tennis, basketball, hockey, etc, need intensive oversight. Some three years ago, basketball was named in the Auditor-General's report for some corrupt activities.
Virtually nothing is being done to audit the existing facilities in both rural and urban areas. The department has allocated R8,2 million in the budget for this purpose. There are areas such as Hanover Park and many others that are in dire need of facilities and the above allocations fall far short of improving facilities.
There needs to be a follow-up audit on the municipal infrastructure grant to provinces and municipalities. Cope is not satisfied that these grants are being utilised according to the legal mandates that exist. The mass participation programme which accounts for the bulk of the budget must be monitored more closely to ensure that the funds are giving us the desired outcomes and value for money.
Finally on the budget, club development has decreased from R5,4 million in 2007-08 to R3,1 million this year.
Chairperson, Cope would like to see a fundamental overhaul in the way funds are distributed by the lotto. Furthermore, Cope believes that the portfolio committee should have a role in nominating who should serve on the lottery board. Currently, there is a massive surplus of unused funds. The Minister has rightly said that school sport need to be revived, particularly in terms of facilities in the previously disadvantaged schools. The foreign funding of E7 million is a start, but with additional lottery funds huge strides can be made in the battle for transformation.
Chairperson, on the global stage, South Africans have been disappointed with the performance of our athletes, cricket team and football team. Our oversight responsibilities require that we ensure that going forward there is a marked improvement in the fortunes of our international teams. The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee needs to be held accountable for the success particularly of our athletes in the 2012 Olympics. Nothing short of a significant improvement from the previous Olympics will satisfy the public and ourselves.
Our football side needs to qualify for the 2014 Fifa Soccer World Cup on its merit and not via a free ride as in 2010. With the huge amount of money pouring into football, we expect major progress by the national team. The Proteas promised much but failed at the knockout stage. Perhaps if they properly developed ...
Your time has expired, hon Mac Kenzie.
In conclusion, I would like to say to the Minister that he has our full support and we support the Budget Vote. [Time expired.] [Applause.]
Hon Chairperson, hon Minister and hon members, the role of sport in any society cannot be overemphasised. Here in our own country we have seen sport being used in the past as a divisive tool, meant to segregate racial groupings from each other. Now we must ensure that, going forward, sport is used as a tool to unite and build our country. It is from this premise that we believe that the roles of sport and recreation are grossly underestimated, given the challenges we face as a country, especially in terms of youth welfare.
I am not convinced that we as a country have come remotely close to harnessing the development and healing potential that sport and recreation can offer our country. It is our belief that the many problems that our youth face can be reduced through a vigorous sports policy initiated in the community, encouraged in schools, and, where appropriate, promoted as a career choice.
The IFP therefore wishes to encourage the hon Minister to go further with the department's school sport programme to achieve the objective of eradicating the high levels of juvenile crime in our country. We all know the saying: "Idle hands are the devil's playground." As the IFP we recognise that sport infrastructural development is paramount to the development of sporting codes. We are saying that as long as government is not paying attention to the need for providing the requisite sport infrastructure in schools and rural communities, with the objective of bringing more disadvantaged youths to sport, transformation will remain a mere pipe dream.
However, the IFP strongly believes that government's role in sport should be limited to a supportive and regulatory one. Government's support should, however, not be limited to sports codes that are already well developed in our previously disadvantaged areas, but has to be extended to those codes that have been considered for decades to be elite sports, such as golf, cricket and rugby.
Classifying golf as a nonpriority code is a perpetuation of the status quo. This sporting code has an industry that generates not millions but billions of rands, in which our previously disadvantaged communities share little or no benefit at all. A sports code with this kind of revenue-generating capacity should be utilised to benefit a greater part of our society. The starting point, Minister, would be to break the perpetuation of the status quo of golf being a sport for whites and a handful of blacks and transform it into a sport that, like soccer and netball, truly develops on a grand scale, to the benefit of all South Africans.
The place to start is in the schools. The benefits of this for our disadvantaged pupils are underestimated, and I can assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised. Sport as a catalyst and direct contributor to job creation and the gross domestic product, GDP, is equally underestimated and subsequently underexploited. It thus stands to reason that greater efforts are needed to equip especially our youth with sports skills and sports administration skills, ultimately equipping them holistically for careers in the broader sports fraternity. This, again, would be given massive impetus if sport or physical training was taught at our schools.
Reviving sports in our schools would help both parents and their children to keep a sensible perspective on the benefits of organised sports. Moreover, hon Chairperson, children who participate in organised sports do better in school, have better interpersonal skills and are more team- oriented. The IFP therefore supports all efforts to reintroduce school sport, because the abovementioned benefits justify this decision, a decision that will not only benefit the children, but our society and our country at large.
The IFP supports this Budget Vote. I thank you. [Applause.]
Thank you, Chairperson. Minister of Sport and Recreation, Deputy Minister, hon Members of Parliament, our guests ...
Modulasetulo, Aforika Borwa e fitlheletse go le gontsi fa re sale re bona kgololosego. Ka go dira mmogo batho botlhe ba rona ba ne ba nna seopasengwe go fenya dikgwetlho tse di neng di re aparetse mme ba samagana le tseo di lebaneng naga ya rona.
Re le puso re tsweletse pele go bopa baagi ba ba kitlaneng; ba ba sa kgethololaneng ka bomorafe le bong; mme ba tlhaloganya temokerasi e bile ba tsweletse pele jaaka e sa bolo go nna maitlhomo a a tlhomameng a ANC. Re fetotse matshelo a dimilione tsa batho e bile re ikaelela go tsweletsa tiro e ntle e e dirilweng. Ntetle ke nopole Moporesitente wa naga Rre J G Zuma fa a bula Palamente:
Metshameko e na le maatla a go kopanya merafe, go tlhabolola naga le go godisa ikonomi ya rona. (Translation of Setswana paragraphs follows.)
[Chairperson, since the advent of democracy, South Africa has achieved a lot. Our people, through working together, were united and dealt with challenges which they were experiencing and the whole country.
We as government continue to build a united nation that does not discriminate against race and gender, understands democracy and has progressed, as these has been the main focus of the ANC. We improved millions of our people's lives and aim to continue the wonderful job that has already been done. Allow me to quote the President of the country Mr J G Zuma during the opening of Parliament:
Sports has the power to bring nations together, to develop the country and to grow the economy.]
The Department of Sport and Recreation, in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture, has launched "Magnificent Fridays", which aims to mobilise the whole nation to stand behind their heroes and help them to achieve their best in their respective international tournaments scheduled for 2011.
Another aim of this campaign is to promote awareness and love of our national symbols and to develop a feeling of pride and cohesion amongst young children through the singing of our national anthem, usage and distribution of the national flag, and teaching our communities about the national symbols such as the protea.
Re ikuela go Lefapha la Metshameko le Boitapoloso go atolosa manaane le go akaretsa set?haba se sentshonyana jaaka ba bontshitse bokgoni mo ngwageng wa 2010 go ruta le go atlhosa set?haba ka metshameko e ditlhopha tsa rona tsa naga di tla e tsayang mo ngwageng wa 2011. Lefapha la Metshameko le Boitapoloso mmogo le Lefapha la Botaki le Setso di tshwanetse go neelana ka folaga ya naga go mang le mang, maitlhomo magolo e le gore metse selegae, dikolo, dikgwebo le mafelo a mangwe a nne le tsona go bontsha lerato go naga ya rona. (Translation of Setswana paragraph follows.)
[We would like to appeal to the Department of Sport and Recreation to extend these programmes, and also to include the black nation as they have shown their ability in the year 2010, to teach and to make the nation aware of the sports codes in which our national teams will partake in the year 2011. The Department of Sport and Recreation, together with the Department of Arts and Culture, should give everybody the country's national flag, the main objectives being for villages, schools, businesses and other areas to show love for our country.]
We request all communities to rally behind the netball team, which will be playing in July, and the rugby team, which will be playing in September 2011.
One of the programmes of the department is Sport Support Services, which supports recognised sport and recreation bodies and public entities, and monitors and reports on their performance, allowing the department to sign a service level agreement with the federations. Hon Dikgacwi will speak more about service providers, and I will raise the shortcomings we have realised about one of the nongovernmental organisations the department is monitoring, which hon members have also indicated.
LoveLife is supposed to offer a variety of sport and recreational activities such as soccer, netball, cricket and others to our communities. These activities, as I have mentioned, hon Minister, are designed to encourage the youth to value, evaluate and manage their health, thereby providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health programmes, including HIV and Aids programmes, prevention of unwanted teenage pregnancies, and fitness and nutrition programmes.
Therefore, the mandate of loveLife, and what the President of this country raised, is that we must place more emphasis on women's health issues, such as broad reproductive health rights. This is in line with what loveLife is supposed to do through the offering of sport and recreational programmes. Our challenge therefore is that there is no proper monitoring of these programmes vis--vis the huge amount of the budget allocated to loveLife. Its programmes are not visible and accessible in our rural, poor and disadvantaged areas. Therefore the programmes of loveLife cannot be measured, as other members have indicated.
Club development programmes support the formation and revitalisation of clubs and leagues at local level, with the support from national federations. Funds are used to procure sports equipment and attire, which the department gives directly to beneficiaries. We appreciate the work done by different provinces in supplying such equipment to clubs. However, more work still needs to be done. We recommend that this should be monitored and controlled so that the distribution is equal and even amongst clubs. This equipment should benefit our local clubs in rural areas and townships. Re ka itumela fa lefapha le ka romela maina a ditlhopha tse di fitlheletseng thuso gonne se se tla thusa komiti go bona gore ditirelo di fitlhelela batho ba ba tshwanetseng. Se ke maikemisetso a mokgatlho o o busang go tokafatsa matshelo a bona e se re gongwe dithoto tseo tsa felela magareng ga ditlhopha le lefapha. (Translation of Setswana paragraph follows.)
[We would really appreciate it if the department could send the names of the teams that received assistance, as this will help to identify whether services reach the relevent people. This is the objective of the ruling party, to better their lives and to ensure that the equipment and sports kits do not end up somewhere between the teams and the department.]
Development should also focus on capacity building and training for both athletes and coaches, and federations should play a very critical role in supporting these clubs, as this also falls within their mandate.
Not only the SA Football Association, but all federations, through their regional structures, should integrate their programmes and link them to those of the local clubs.
Manaane a, a tshwanetse go bona gore a akaretsa bomme, bana le batho ba ba sa itekanelang mo mebeleng. Metshameko ya batho ba ba sa itekanelang e tshwanetse go fiwa t?hono e e tletseng ka gonne batho ba ba fitlhelela dikgele di le dintsi. (Translation of Setswana paragraph follows.)
[These programmes should see to it that they include women, children and the disabled people. Sports for disabled people should be given full support as these people achieve most of the medals.]
The ANC Polokwane conference resolved that the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup should leave a lasting legacy to our communities. We thank the Local Organising Committee together with the SA Football Association for the football turf, which includes a programme of building clubhouses for our communities. Fifty-two football turfs are supposed to be built and the National Lottery has agreed to fund 24 football turfs, as hon Van der Linde has indicated. At the moment, eight facilities have been completed. At present, as presented to the portfolio committee, the remaining 19 facilities will be completed in June.
A ditirelo tse tsa metshameko di agiwe kwa di tlhokegang teng. Re tshegetsa gape le lenaane le lefapha le tlileng go le tsayang la go kwadisa ditirelo tsa metshameko tse di leng teng mo nageng. Se se tla re thusa gore re itse gore re na le mabala a le makae e bile a kwa kae, a a tlhoka go tlhabololwa kgotsa go agiwe a ma?wa. (Translation of Setswana paragraph follows.)
[May the sports centres be built where they are needed. We also support the programme which the department has initiated of registering available sports facilities. This will help us know how many sports fields are available and where, whether they need to be developed or to be built afresh.]
We therefore request the department, in conjunction with other federations, schools and municipalities, to come up with a festival of sporting and cultural events, so that they can mobilise and make our communities aware of these facilities and continue to keep the vibe created by the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup. Our communities should learn to embrace these facilities as their new homes and should also ensure that they are properly maintained and protected.
We also want to thank the Lottery Distribution Agency, the Foundation for a Safe South Africa, Microsoft SA, Torque Information Technology, the Kelly Group and all the stakeholders who contributed to making this project a success. The Youth Development against Violence through Sport programme is also an initiative implemented by the department as part of the legacy programme and it is supported by the German government. We also support this programme, and it must benefit the needy, those living in poor and disadvantaged urban and rural communities.
We also want to thank and support the Free State Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, amongst others, which will be hosting a provincial soccer, rugby and golf reconciliation challenge in December, which will involve all sports lovers. Their cultural show, the Mangaung Arts and Culture Festival, or Macufe, will be featuring activities that will be able to showcase our African heritage, and all the programmes will be linked to the build-up programmes for the celebration of the centenary of the one and only Congress of the People, the one which adopted its Freedom Charter in 1955 in Kliptown, the oldest liberation movement on the continent, the ANC.
In my closing remarks, Chairperson, I want to quote Robert Putman when he says:
Sport and recreation provides the catalyst for community gatherings, from small functions to major events, where people play, talk and share experiences. Importantly, it has a positive effect that reaches many levels of our society - in short - sport and recreation creates social capital. This is important because places with high levels of social capital are safer, better governed and more prosperous compared to those places with low levels of social capital.
The ANC supports Budget Vote No 20.
Ke a leboga. [Legofi.] [Thank you. [Applause.]]
Our next speaker will be the hon Gen B H Holomisa for three minutes.
Order, order! [Laughter.] Chairperson, that is what a general does!
Hon Minister and Deputy Minister, hon members and honoured guests, in my three minute allocation, I would like to start by saying that the UDM supports Budget Vote No 20. I agree with my colleagues: Roaming the streets of South Africa are talented young stars who have failed to reach their true potential owing to the unavailability of the basic sports facilities required to harness their talent.
We have been following the positive statements made by the hon Minister about the department's plans to improve sport in general. However, your predecessors also made similar promises in the past, but later came back to this House complaining about the inadequate budget allocation for the needs of the department. So, we wish you all the best. In some cases, where money had been spent to develop or improve basic sport facilities, some of the facilities have either been left incomplete, or are unused or vandalised.
The truth of the matter is that this department has, for a long time, been struggling because of a severe lack of leadership. This lack of leadership caused the portfolio committee to feel that, at times, it was doing the department's work, where it had to intervene in the problems faced by the different sports codes. The department should be the one that seeks proactively to address the challenges faced by different sports codes, rather than shifting the responsibility to Parliament.
An efficient department would allow Parliament to play its oversight role by holding the department accountable about the operations of the different sports codes around their administrative and financial management issues. Expecting this House to intervene in instances where sports codes are instituting internal disciplinary actions against their members trivialises the role of Parliament. Hon Minister, please take control of your department!
Finally, the UDM wishes to express its disappointment about the poor performance of the Proteas in the recent International Cricket World Cup, where players failed to chase a small target. The leadership of the team twiddled its thumbs while the players showed a lack of discipline by attempting to dispatch every ball to the boundaries. Such occurrences make one inclined to believe the theories about the pervasive influence of bookmakers in cricket. I thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]
We thank the hon member for his orderly contribution. [Laughter.]
Chairperson, hon Minister, hon Deputy Minister, colleagues, sports administrators, ladies and gentlemen, allow me first to deal with the issue of hon Van der Linde.
Met betrekking tot die skole wat nie fasiliteite vir sport het nie, 95% van hulle is gebou deur die Nasionale Party, wat die voorvader van die DA is. So, dit moet ons verstaan. [Gelag.] (Translation of Afrikaans paragraph follows.)
[With regard to schools without sports facilities, 95% of these were built by the National Party, which is the predecessor of the DA. So, it must be clear to everyone. [Laughter.]]
The strategic plan's mission for the department reads as follows:
To maximise access, development and excellence at all levels of participation in sport and recreation in order to improve social cohesion, nation building and the quality of life of all South Africans.
Allow me to quote from one of the policy documents of the ANC, which was adopted in 1992 and is titled Ready to govern. The ANC has policies and is not like all these other organisations that go in and out of court, not taking counsel on their matters. This policy states, and I quote:
The ANC's goal is to allow everybody to take part in sport and recreation if they wish to do so. Sport will not be a privilege only for a few people and sport facilities must serve all people. Everybody, no matter what age, colour, class, gender or physical condition, should have the opportunity to play sport.
Ndize kuwe ke Mphathiswa ndithi, i-ANC iyaluxhasa olu hlahlo-lwabiwo mali. Kwaye asinamona, asinanzondo koko sidumisa i-ANC. [Hon Minister, I would like to say to you, the ANC supports this Budget Vote. Furthermore, we are not jealous, we are not aggrieved; instead, we praise the ANC.]
It is my contention that sport and recreation is a national asset which needs to be guarded jealously. As Members of Parliament we oversee the running of this portfolio. It is not only our intention but also our responsibility and duty to ensure that government is not a passive observer in the unfolding of sport education in this country.
Mphathiswa, ndizakuthetha okwerekhodi. Ndikhule ngexesha lamarekhodi apho kwakusithiwa, 45 elinengoma enye 33 kunye 78. Hayi la macwecwe enu. [Hon Minister, I will speak like a record. I grew up during the time when records were played, such as the single, 45, the 33 and the 78 rpm. Not these compact discs, CDs, of yours.]
Government will be proactive in ensuring that transformation in sport and recreation will remain a reality. There is little doubt that sport has played a role in the democratisation of our country and that, as a catalyst, it has brought, and continues to bring, persons of divergent backgrounds together. It is also true that, despite all the achievements in sport since the period of unification started, there remain vital areas of concern, such as the lack of representivity and opportunities. This lack of representivity is a direct consequence of the failure of federations to introduce programmes which will create opportunities which are outcome- based.
Oku kuquka iinkokheli ezineengcambu ze-ANC, ezithi zakufika kwezi manyamo zemibutho zilibale imisebenzi ekufuneka ziyenzile. Ziphele zingooxhomoyi bonoomgogwana abajonge iziqu zabo kuphela. Kwaye baphuma imixhadi belwela into ezakuphumelelisa bona hayi iimanyano abakuzo kunye noluntu olu kudala luhlupheka. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[This includes leaders with ANC roots, who forget the work they are supposed to do when they join the unions. They end up being scarecrows who are only interested in their personal wellbeing. They put up such a great fight to ensure their own personal success, not that of the community that has long been suffering.]
We need leaders of good calibre, of which Martin Luther King said the following, and I quote:
We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice; leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity ...
We need leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause, whose leadership is conceptually strong and intellectually grounded.
Let there be no doubt, the process of transformation and the principle of representivity remain non-negotiable. Democracy in the controlling bodies of South Africa's sports federations is one of the key elements to successful transformation. Transformation is not simply about replacing white faces with black faces, but involves personal, institutional, attitudinal and paradigmatic change. In many sports organisations, the formal constitutional power lay with the executive, but the real power was vested in those controlling the financial resource base. You know at times ...
... xa ucinga ukuba kumdlalo wombhoxo konyula abonyuli, kanti ... [...you think that in rugby it is the selectors who select, but ...]
... there are other people who select them; the selectors just come in and they read it out. That is how it works.
It is also necessary not to lose sight of the dearth of adequate sporting facilities that are easily accessible to the majority of people of our country. This is a major challenge to stakeholders in sport, all tiers of government, the private sector, federations and sponsors. It is difficult for our people to access the facilities because of the exorbitant amounts which are being charged. Minister, if we want to speak about mass participation, we should also speak about radicalising the lack of facilities, the access to resources, and the lack of proper skills on the part of administrators.
Delivery should remain a focus. National federations will have to accept this as their responsibility. You should co-ordinate all federations in our collective quest to deliver sport and recreation with measurable outcomes, especially for the masses of our people.
One of the mechanisms you should fully employ in this regard is the adoption of performance contracts by all federations. The format and implications of these performance contracts should determine progress and form the cornerstone of the process of transformation. However, the performance contracts should have teeth.
Inja engenawo amazinyo, yinja nje ngegama, kuba yona iyantlantlatha qha, ayilumi iyamunca. Kungoko ke kufuneka kubekho izixhobo zokujonga indlela ezisebenza ngayo ezi manyano. Kungenjalo, siyakuba sithetha nje okosana olupholisa iintsini. Ingwe inamabala, kwaye iyawaqwalasela la mabala ayo. Kungoko ke Mphathiswa sisithi lilixa lokuba ubonakalise awakho amabala. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[A dog without teeth is a dog in name only, because it can only suck and not bite. That is why there must be tools to monitor the way in which these organisations operate, otherwise we shall be talking just like a teething baby. A leopard has its spots and it looks at and notices them. Hon Minister, it is therefore time for you to show your spots.]
The manner in which we continue with our sport transformation is appalling and perhaps it's time we introduce laws to enforce this transformation in sport, if teams in the country fail to take action. I'm concerned about the image of South Africa to the rest of the world when its teams are not representative of the different race groups.
Kunesigulo esikhoyo Mphathiswa esibizwa ngokuba yi ... [Hon Minister, there is an illness known as ...]
... big match temperament, BMT, you know ...
... abanye ke bathi kukutshowuka. Mna ndithi yiBMT. Uyabona kekunale mizuzu mithathu yaba bantu bangekhoyo apha, nokuba ubunokusinika bawo. [Kwahlekwa.]
Mphathiswa, kukho enye ingxaki endifuna ukuyiphakamisa ngoku. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[... others say it is shock. I say it is BMT. You see, there are three minutes allocated to those who are absent here, how about allocating those minutes to us, sir. [Laughter.]
Hon Minister, there is another problem that I would like to raise now.]
There is this issue of boxers, where the promoters and the management take 90% of the cake and only 10% goes to the fighter, who is the one who suffers the blows, who is the one who employs them, because that management is getting paid by this boxer. We need to look into that issue, Comrade Minister. We are going to have the same situation ...
... eyenzeka emgcwabeni kaHappyboy Mgxaji kuba aba bantu abakwazi ukuzibekela imali, Koko, itshona kwaba bantu. Igazi likaChris Hani, likaSolomon Mahlangu nelika-Oliver Tambo malibe ligazi eliza kuzalisekisa imibono neengcinga zombutho we-ANC. Mayingacampayi ibengoochwenene le midlwembe ibambe ivili lomzabalazo sikhona sithule tu. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[... which happened in respect of Happyboy Mgxaji because these people cannot save their money, but it enriches other people. The blood of Chris Hani, Solomon Mahlangu and Oliver Tambo is the blood that will fulfil the vision and mission of the ANC. These criminals should not have it easy, be well-dressed whilst holding the struggle to ransom and we are keeping quiet.]
Lastly, let all South Africans put their full support behind our rugby boys in their defence of the World Cup in New Zealand. We hope that this BMT is not going to affect them. [Time expired.]
Siyakuva. Sithi yithathe le mali uyisebenzise. [Kwaqhwatywa.] [We hear you. We are saying take this money and spend it. [Applause.]]
Chairperson, Ministers, Deputy Ministers and hon members, I salute you.
Kha vha ntendele ndi ambe zwauri Muhasho wa zwa Mitambo na Vhu?imvumvusi, wo sedza wa zwi vhona zwauri mihasho mi?we a i khou isa mitambo vhathuni. Ri a zwi ?ivha zwauri izwo a zwi ngo itwa nga muvhuso we wa dzhena nga 1994. Zwi bva murahu kha vhe vha vha vho ri ranga phan?a. Muhasho u khou lingedza uri vhathu vho?he vha kone u dzhenela kha mitambo uya nga u fhambana havho; nga maan?a musi ro sedza vhafumakadzi, vhaaluwa, vhaswa, vhathu vha mahayani na vha sa koni u ?iitela.
U sumbedza uri hezwi zwo?he zwo thoma zwino, mbekanyamushumo ya uri hu isiwe mitambo vhathuni yo thomiwa nga muvhuso we wa thoma u vhusa nga 1994. A zwi ngo thomiwa nga muvhuso we wa vhusa murahu. Hezwi zwi khou ri sumbedza zwauri uno muvhuso u na hune wa khou ya hone.
Kha ndi dovhe hafhu ndi sumbedzise uri hoyu muvhuso washu wo ?i ?ea tshifhinga wa ya u rwela ?ari mbekanyamushumo iyi, ngei Upington. Muhulwane Vho Van der ... a thi ?ivhi uri vha tou vhidziswa hani ... vho amba vha tshi khou sumbedzisa uri mitambo a i khou kona u swikelela vhathuni na zwikoloni zwa mahayani. Ee, ri khou tenda, fhedzi kha ri lavhelese uri uyu muhasho zwa zwino u khou ita mini. U khou dzhenela vhukuma kha u isa izwo zwo?he vhathuni. (Translation of Tshiven?a paragraphs follows.)
[Allow me to say that the Department of Sport and Recreation has realised that some departments are not taking sport to the communities. We know that the government that was elected in 1994 didn't do this. It came from the previous government that led us before. The department is working very hard to get all people from different groups to participate in sport; with emphasis on women, the elderly, the youth, people living in rural areas and persons with disability.
To show that all these were started recently, programmes for taking sport to the public were started by the government that took over in 1994, not by the previous regime. This indicates that this government is headed in the right direction.
Let me also indicate that our government made time to launch this programme in Upington. Hon Van der ... I can't remember his name properly ... had indicated that sporting activities are not offered in the communities and in rural schools. Yes, we agree, but we should also look at what this department is doing now. It is fully engaged and involved on delivering all these things to the communities.]
The mass participation programme is the way in which this department invests in human resources, thus contributing to the Reconstruction and Development Programme by providing opportunities and, to a certain extent, employment. The broadbased mass participation programme is our way of discovering talent and feeding it into the development programmes of each national federation.
Zwi nga vha hani arali madzangano o ?iimisaho nga o?he u fana na mitambo ya zwi?ara?ani, mitambo ya mulalo na nyonyoloso dza mutakalo, a tshi nga isiwa vhuponi ha mahayani u itela u ?u?uwedza vhadzulapo kha u shumisana na u dzhenela kha mitambo yo?he yo fhambanaho, vho farisana na mimasipala.
Kha ri dovhe hafhu ri sedze mitambo zwikoloni. Ro?he ri a zwi ?ivha zwauri mitambo zwikoloni i kha ?i vha thaidzo. Ri a zwi ?ivha zwauri ndi mafhungo ane a kwama mihasho mivhili, wa zwa Mitambo na Vhu?imvumvusi na wa Pfunzo ya Mutheo. Mihasho hei mivhili i tea u vhona zwauri mitambo i khou tshimbila zwikoloni. Ro?he ri a zwi ?ivha zwauri mitambo i tshimbilelana na mutakalo, na u ?u?uwedza mivhili yo takalaho, nga maan?a musi ro lavhelesa vhaswa.
Minisi?a, ndi khou tenda zwauri Afurika Tshipembe ?i khou ?o?a u vha na vhanna na vhafumakadzi vha re vhomakone, musi ri tshi ?a kha zwa mitambo. Mbudziso yanga ndi ya uri, vhanna na vhafumakadzi vha re vhomakone kha zwa mitambo, ri ?o vha wanisa hani arali ri sa khou ?u?uwedza mitambo uri i ye vhathuni nahone ri sa ?i fhi tshifhinga tsha u vha gudisa.
Arali ra lavhelesa zwikoloni zwa mahayani, mitambo i tshe yo salela murahu. Fhethu hunzhi vhana vha tambula na u tou wana midavhi ya u tambela khayo. Vho fha?aho zwikolo kale ri?e ri sa athu u vha hone, vho vha vha sa zwi ?ivhi zwauri ?wana wa murema na ene u na pfanelo dza u ya u tamba. Ndi ngazwo ri?e ri tshi khou vusuludza madumba o tshinyiwaho nga vha?we vhathu. [U vhanda zwan?a.]
Kha ri dovhe hafhu ri lavhelese uri ndi zwifhio zwine ra nga zwi ita u itela uri mitambo i dzhenele nga maan?a kha vhaswa vha sa yi zwikoloni na vhane vha ya. Hezwi ndi zwi?we zwine muhasho wa tea u dzhenela khazwo. Ra lavhelesa tshipikwa tshashu, ri kona u zwi vhona zwauri hu na vhathu vhane vha lingana 500 vho no pfumbudzelwaho u shuma zwikoloni na u vusuludza dzi?igi.
Hezwi zwi sumbedza uri muhasho hoyu na wone u na zwine wa khou ita. Arali wo vha u sa khou ita tshithu, wo vha u sa ?o gudisa vhathu zwikoloni na u vusuludza dzi?igi. Hu?we kha ri swike hune ra vhandela hoyu muhasho zwan?a. Muhasho uno u na zwinzhi zwine wa khou zwi ita u itela uri hu vhe na mvelaphan?a. Hu na mafulo manzhi e vhathu vha linganaho 28 000 vha dzhenela khao. Ho dovha hafhu ha yiwa mavunduni he ha dzhenela vhathu vha linganaho 16 734. Kha ri tende uri hu khou shumiwa ngauri a zwi leluwi uri vhathu vha lingaho 20 000 vha dzhenele kha zwa mitambo.
Muvhuso wo dovha hafhu wa ita uri hu vhe na dzisenthara fhethu hunzhi ho fhambanaho kha mimasipala yashu. Tshipikwa tshihulwane tsho vha tshi tsha uri vhaswa na vho?he vha dzhenelaho kha mitambo, vha songo tshimbila khi?omitha ?hanu u ya u swikelela mitambo kana u tou ya u vhona. Kanzhi vhathu vho vha vha tshi balelwa nga mulandu wa uri vho vha vha sa koni u swika nga hone u shaya masheleni kana u sa kona u ?ibadelela zwi?amelwa zwa u vha isa.
Musi hu tshi iswa masheleni mavunduni, kha hu sedziwe ane a khou shaya, a sa koni u ?iitela, sa tsumbo, Limpopo. Limpopo a ?i koni u ?iitela nahone ri khou humbela Vho Minisi?a uri vha ri sedze nga i?o ?a vhuthu. Zwine zwa nga takadza ndi zwauri hu na mafulo ane a isiwa vhathuni nga mavundu na mimasipala. Zwenezwo na zwone kha zwi ite uri na ri?e vha?we ri dzhenele, ri ?u?uwedze vhathu uri zwithu zwi tshimbile.
Ri na mbekanyamushumo dzi ngaho sa Siyadlala Mass Participation ya mitambo ya sialala. Ndi mitambo ye vhomakhulu washu vha vha vha tshi i tamba musi vha tshe vhaswa nahone vha tshi ?iphi?a ngayo. Zwino kha ri livhuwe ngauri i khou vusuludzwa. (Translation of Tshiven?a paragraphs follows.)
[How would it be if nongovernmental organisations such as Sports for Peace could be made available in rural areas in order to organise street games and exercises for health to encourage co-operation among citizens and participation in different sporting codes, working together with the municipalities.
Let us also look at school sport. We all know that school sports is still a problem. We also know that this issue involves two departments, that of Sport and Recreation and of Basic Education. These two departments must make sure that sporting activities are facilitated in schools. We all know that sport goes hand in hand with healthy living and promote healthy bodies especially for young generations.
Minister, I agree that South Africa needs men and women who are professionals when it comes to sport and recreation. My question is, how are we going to get professional men and women in sport and recreation if we are not promoting community involvement and participation in sport and also if we are not making time to train them?
If we look at rural schools, sporting activities are not yet fully established. In many areas children struggle to find sports grounds. Those who built schools many years ago before we were even born, didn't know that a black child also has the right to go and play. Hence we are trying to face-lift old deserted schools damaged by other people. [Applause.]
Let us also focus on what we can do to get all young people, especially those outside the schooling system and those in school, to participate fully in sport. The department must be involved in this kind of issue as well. If we look at our goal, we can see that already there are up to 500 people who are trained to work in schools and to revive leagues. These clearly show that this department is doing something good, otherwise we wouldn't be talking about people working in schools and reviving leagues.
We must sometimes applaud this department. It is doing so much to promote progress. There were many campaigns in which up to 28 000 people participated. There were also campaigns in provinces in which up to 16 734 people participated. Let us just agree that the department is working very hard, since it is not easy to get up to 20 000 people to participate in sport.
The government has also established centres in many different areas in our municipalities. The main goal was to get the youth and all people who participate in sport not to walk long distances of more than five kilometres to play or to be spectators. Most of the time people were unable to participate in sport owing to lack of money or lack of transport.
When allocating funds to provinces, priority should be given to those that are very poor, for example, Limpopo. Limpopo province does not have sufficient sports facilities, therefore we are making an appeal to the Minister to help us out financially. What is exciting is that there are campaigns in communities initiated by the provinces and the municipalities. Therefore, let us all be involved and encourage people in order to make progress.
We have programmes like the Siyadlala Mass Participation Programme for indigenous games. These are games which our forefathers used to play when they were young and they enjoyed them. We must be thankful that they are being revived.]
This programme is offering national events for indigenous games and gymnastics, contributing to increased participation, a drive for excellence and specialisation at community level. The Department of Sport and Recreation, together with the provincial departments responsible for sport and recreation, annually hosts indigenous games festivals in celebration of African cultural diversity and in an effort to revive indigenous games. This revival is intended to popularise those cultural activities that have a particular rural tradition.
Ndi khou humbela Vho Minisi?a nga u tou ?i?ukufhadza, zwauri vha ?u?uwedze mimasipala, musi hu tshi itiwa pulane dza mveledziso dzo ?anganelanaho, sa izwi ri tshi zwi ?ivha zwauri kha dzo kanzhi hu vha ho lavheleswa mitakalo, dzibada, mi?agasi na ma?i. Mitambo ya zwikoloni i tea u vha tshipikwa tsha ndeme tsha vhuraru.
Ri tea u dovha hafhu ra lavhelesa zwauri ndi ngani mitambo ine ya fana na dzikhirikhethe i sa tou wanala zwavhu?i kha vharema. Kha ri dovhe hafhu ri lavhelese zwauri ndi ngani mutambo wa zwa mavili u sa dzhielwi n?ha. Ri khou humbela zwauri muhasho uno u sedze hezwo zwo?he nga i?o ?a vhuthu nahone u vhone zwauri hu na zwine zwa khou itiwa. [Tshifhinga tsho fhela.] Ndi khou tikedza Mulayotibe uno. Ndi a livhuwa. [U vhanda zwan?a.] (Translation for Tshiven?a paragraphs follows.)
[I humbly request the Minister to encourage municipalities when making plans for integrated developments, as we know that most of the time emphasis is on health, roads, electricity and water. School sport should be the third important goal.
We must also look at why a sport such as cricket is so uncommon in black communities. Again, let us also look at why boxing is not popular. We request that the department should look at this issue properly and make sure something is done. [Time expired.] I support this Budget Vote. I thank you. [Applause.]]
Sihlalo wale Ndlu yoWiso-mthetho, malungu ale Ndlu, magosa eli sebe ngokubanzi, kunye neendwendwe ezikhoyo kule Ndlu, okokuqala mandinqwenelele uMphathiswa omtsha oliguzu liphum' ekhasini, uMphathiswa wezeMidlalo noLonwabo, iminyaka enempumelelo kwi-ofisi yakhe kweli sebe. Ndithi qula kwedini kunyembelekile. Uze uqinise izihlahla, uxhathise ngeziquluba zakho, kuba i-ANC iyakuxhasa, kwaye siyaluxhasa olu hlahlo- lwabiwo mali.
Kuhambo lweenyawo eziliwaka, kuye kuqale kubekwe unyawo olunye. Xa nditshoyo ndithi, inguqu kwezemidlalo nolonwabo ayizukwenzeka ngemini enye, kodwa kuza kufuneka, Mphathiswa nesebe, nibe ngathi niyaxhoba, nigxanye kuba izingqi zabantu bethu ziyangqungqa apha emva kwethu. Kodwa, nabantu bethu kufuneka bakhumbule ukuba umonde yinto ekhoyo kuba ezi zinto siza kuzifezekisa xa sithe samanyana ngolu hlobo.
Mphathiswa, njengoko sikunika kwaye siluxhasa olu hlahlo-lwabiwo mali, kukho izinto ekunyanzelekileyo ukuba uzenze ngokungxama. Umzekelo, siyazi ukuba intloko yeli sebe lakho yanabela uqaqaqa kweyoMdumba, ngoku sikwinyanga kaTshazimpunzi. Ngekhe ke sigqibe iinyanga ezilishumi elinesibini kungekho ntloko kweli sebe. Lo ukhoyo siyazi ukuba uyalingisa. Nceda ke ubeke intloko eza kukhokela kamsinyane, ukwenzela ukuba izinto zenzeke ngokukhawuleza.
Amagosa akho athi kweli Sebe lakho lezeMidlalo noLonwabo, kumelwe ukuba kubekho abantu abangama-220. Izithuba ezivingciweyo kunyaka-mali wama-2007- 08 zili-191, zinyukile zaya kwi-193, ngowama-2010-11, kwaye kulindeleke ukuba likhule eli nani liye kuma kuma-206 kulo nyaka-mali uphakathi. Noko le nto ayiginyisi ngwiqi; irhuqisa umrhaji, kuba xa siyibeka ngesi Ngesi, ithi le nto ... (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[Mr L SUKA: Chairperson of the National Assembly, members of this House, officials in the entire department and distinguished guests present in this House, firstly let me wish the newly appointed hon Minister of Sport and Recreation successful years in his ministerial office. You must be prepared for this journey for it is long and full of obstacles. You need to be strong because the ANC supports you and we also support the Budget Vote.
A journey of a thousand steps begins with one step. This means that transformation in the Department of Sport and Recreation will not happen overnight, but will require the Minister and his department to be prepared and to act swiftly; our people are growing impatient. However, they must also remember that they need to be patient because we will achieve these goals only when we are united like this.
There are things that must be done urgently, hon Minister, now that we have allocated and support the budget. For example, we know that the director- general in your department passed away in February and it is April now. We cannot operate for a full year without a director-general in this department. We know that we have someone who is acting. Please appoint the director-general immediately to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
Your officials say that the staff establishment is 220 in your department. Only 191 vacancies were filled in the 2007-08 financial year, and in the 2010-11 financial year, the number increased to 193 vacancies. This number is also expected to increase to 206 in this financial year.
Nonetheless, this is a bad picture and leaves much to be desired, because in English it means ...]
In the 2007-08 financial year the department had 191 filled posts out of 220. In 2009-10 you had 193 filled posts. Mathematically it means that you have filled only two posts. In other words, there are certain financial years where you did not employ any person. To date you have 206 filled posts out of 220.
Noko malingabi nguximfi, sibeyintlekisa kwisizwe. Nceda, Mphathiswa ungenelele ngamandla.
Okulandelayo, inkoliso yamagosa eli sebe ayalingisa. Bendikhe ndayithetha ke le nto, ndisithi ambalwa akwizithuba ezisisigxina. Yiqwalasele le meko, ingakumbi ngale mali sikunika yona. Bekungakuhle ukuba isebe ligxininise ekuqeqesheni la magosa, ingakumbi la aza kuphatha eli sebe, kwizigaba ngezigaba.
Into esingenakuyifihla yeyokuba urhulumente we-ANC uthabathe ulawulo kurhulumente owayesayakuba ngowengcinezelo nocalu-calulo engazange loo rhulumente wamadlagusha anike abantu bethu ingqeqesho ngokwezakhono ezifanelekileyo zale mihla. Lilonke, masibaqeqeshe sibafundise bonke abasebenzi beli sebe ngokukhawuleza.
Siqaphele ukuba iyafuna ukunikwa ingqwalasela into yobudlelwane nonxulumano lwethu kwezemidlalo. Ingakumbi igunya lezemidlalo nelezentlalontle yeli lizwe elingqamene nezemidlalo nolonwabo. Ndingabalula laa mcimbi wee-MDG. (Translation of isiXhosa paragraphs follows.)
[We must not be misled and be a laughing stock to the nation. Please, hon Minister, intervene with more vehemence. I have already cited that most of these departmental officials are in acting posts and very few are employed permanently. You must look at this situation more specifically, given the budget we have allocated to you. It would be better if the department would focus on training these officials, especially those who will manage in the various levels.
We are not apologetic about the fact that the ANC government took over from the white minority government of oppression and segregation which never bothered to train our people in the necessary skills needed today. Therefore, we must train and mentor all employees of this department immediately.
We have noticed that we need to pay special attention to our relationship and association in sport, especially to the mandate and welfare of this country associated with sport and recreation. I can cite the issue of the