Adjunkspeaker, in die jaar wat Suid-Afrika die grootste sportskouspel ter wreld aanbied, is dit baie teleurstellend dat die Departement van Sport en Rekreasie 'n gekwalifiseerde verslag van die Ouditeur-generaal kry.
Dit het gebeur omdat daar mense aangestel is wat nie die mas kon opkom nie en nou moet ons die wrange vrugte pluk. Die slagoffers in die proses is die jeug wie se talent verlore gaan. (Translation of Afrikaans paragraphs follows.)
[Mr T D LEE: Deputy Speaker, it is very disappointing that, in the year that South Africa hosts the biggest sporting spectacle in the world, the Department of Sport and Recreation received a qualified report from the Auditor-General.
It happened because the people who were appointed were not up to the task and now we have to bear the brunt. The victims in this process are the youth whose talents are being lost.]
Then there is Boxing SA, which has been a disaster since its inception some years ago. It again received a qualified Auditor-General's report this year.
In 2007, the Minister called them, and I quote, "a nuisance" and last year the Minister labelled them the Achilles heel of our work. But Boxing SA is still a bottomless pit into which state resources are poured without any meaningful returns.
It is for this and many other reasons that the DA has introduced a Private Members' Bill to disestablish Boxing SA. South Africa is a nation of sports lovers. As citizens, we all deserve more from our sporting institutions. I hope that the department takes these criticisms to heart and has the courage and political will to make the necessary policy changes.
The DA will not support this Budget Vote. I thank you. [Applause.]