Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
(1) notes that the South African contingent of athletes who had participated in the recently completed Olympic Games in Sydney had performed generally not so successfully as all South Africans would have liked;
(2) requests the National Olympic Council of South Africa, under the stewardship of Mr Sam Ramsamy to -
(a) undertake a serious audit of its state of affairs;
(b) offer a more plausible explanation than shortage of funds for the disappointing turn of events in Sydney; and
(c) ensure that its future plans of action do not fall short of what South Africans expect of their sportsmen and sportswomen participating in international events such as the Olympic Games;
(3) believes that it is high time that Nocsa concerns itself with selections on merit rather than allow extraneous factors to influence selection of participants; and
(4) further believes that the South African public is mature enough to feel national pride even when such team selections based on merit are monochrome.