Hon Chairperson, as I did with Orlando Pirates last year, I want to acknowledge and congratulate Kaizer Chiefs for winning the Premier Soccer League this year. [Applause.]

I want to thank the entire staff of the Department of Sport and Recreation, including the director-general, for their excellent work and commitment, and for focusing on the ball. I also want to thank the Deputy Minister, Gert Oosthuizen, and the rest of the staff members in the Ministry.

First and foremost, let me say that sport has given us unlimited opportunities. During our short spell in Sport and Recreation - after being deployed by the ANC - we have taken groundbreaking strides. Thank you to the ANC for giving us the opportunity to prove our worth. [Applause.]

I want to refer to the fact that the EPG, the Sports Confederation and Sascoc have the primary and urgent task of ensuring that the Transformation Charter and Scorecard are implemented. In this Budget Vote debate I want to say we are very clear about the task ahead in terms of transformation as well as about what we have done. We don't pay lip service to transformation, but we walk the walk. We don't polarise the nation between black and white.

There are members of the EPG here who are guiding us on the matter of implementing the Transformation Charter and Scorecard, as mandated by the Sports Indaba, to ensure that quotas are implemented. We said that they are counterproductive, but the Sports Indaba said that they must be implemented. So, to cry foul because there are no black players and Africans in sports teams will soon be something of the past.

The Transformation Charter, equally, is underpinned by a strong developmental movement because there is an uneven development of players in our country. A child who attends St John's and another child, who attends iQhayiya, are totally different. That is why a child who went to St John's will enjoy the privilege of being selected. He may even play for the Springboks or Proteas. The child who goes to iQhayiya does not have that capacity.

Did you know that the majority of our children eventually go into early retirement precisely because of ailments and injuries because their development is unequal? Their nutrition is not the same. The coaching they receive is not the same.

Our kids from iQhayiya are on their own because they don't even have parental guidance or get the proper nutrition. When players play football for Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, they start having problems and ailments, like tendonitis and others. They suffer and have injuries. So it's not the same.

That is why we are fighting for equal development. People come here to grandstand, but they don't know about these realities. Our task and programme of action is to ensure that things do happen.

Of course, there are fundamental problems with selection if, in many instances, youngsters who are capable are not selected and those who are selected are not selected on merit.

I don't want a South African rugby team that is black. I want a black and white, nonracial team. That's what I want. [Applause.] I don't want to say, let's give all black people a chance and let all of the others go. [Laughter.]

We seem to believe this myth, among other things, that black people can't swim and that white people are born with the ability to swim and that that is why swimmers will only be white. But it's because we don't have training.

Listen to the story of Chad le Clos and where he came from. He did not become a swimmer at the age of 20. He was born with the ability and he was supported by his parents. Where are these black kids going to learn to swim when they are being neglected? Sheer talent, endurance, ability and a sense of belief is what has made them.

We are not complaining. We are on track and on course in terms of changing the situation. I'm not going to blame any federation. We are going to come to the party.

Hon Khoarai, you were right for having raised the issues you did, as were all other members. We have the Scorecard and the Transformation Charter. We have agreed that those who transform will be incentivised. We will name and shame those who do not transform; and there will be consequences for them not transforming their teams, whether it is rugby or cricket - it doesn't matter. They have to transform and give youngsters the opportunity to actually play.

I didn't come here to complain. It's the first time in South Africa that we have a National Sport and Recreation Plan. We have never had that before. It is aligned and has been costed out. Some people like to judge South Africa according to First World standards by looking at Australia.

We are not Australia. We are a liberated country. Australia was liberated long ago, as was the UK and the US, before we were there. We judge ourselves according to Third World standards. That's where we are and we are on course in that regard. So in 2030, in line with the NDP, we will be able to talk about a South Africa that is different.

Gideon Sam is the president of Sascoc. He can promise us approximately 20 medals. Who gives money to these athletes to support themselves? As I'm speaking to you now, Australia is in preparation for Rio de Janeiro because they failed in the UK. They have invested more then A$20 billion in their plan because they mean business.

Here we are still discussing the Opex, who's in or who's out. We are not complaining. We are on course. We understand our journey and where we come from. The ANC would have loved to spend R20 billion on sport, but we have houses to build and people to feed. [Interjections.] That is what we must understand. [Applause.]

We are on course in relation to what we want to achieve. People came to grandstand about many other issues such as facilities. We are on course with regard to facilities. There is the Municipal Infrastructure Grant and we have asked the Treasury to reinvest in it.

Get my full and unedited speech online or on YouTube. This is Parliament and we are given limited time to speak. It's not like we can pass on our time to each other. If you want the benefit of hearing the speech, it is online. The MIG that will be reinvested will be costed; we will be given the money so that we will be able to allocate facilities to all areas. That is what is going to happen. Let's not speak as if there are no facilities. There are many facilities. Some of them are dilapidated and not well looked after, but we have to revamp them and ensure that they benefit our youth in different areas.

My last point refers to people who spoke about the SA Sports Awards and about excellence. I don't pay lip service to this. I am going to organise the Sports Awards. If the DA wants to stop me, then they should do that. I will stop them, but I'm not going to stop the Sports Awards to reward excellence.

You stand here and grandstand about older people whom we honour at the Sports Awards with green jackets and other things. But you are hypocrites because you sponsored Manchester United with over R10 million to come and play at Green Point stadium. [Interjections.] I don't pay Manchester United. Your premier and mayor here in Cape Town are persuading the PSL to bring Liverpool here, yet you don't even give a cent to Chippa United and Ajax that are here in Cape Town. [Interjections.] You sponsor golf tournaments.

You come and grandstand by misinforming the public that I spent R65 million. Thank you to the SA Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, and SuperSport for giving me the airtime for the Sports Awards. [Applause.] That was not money that came from us, it was in kind. Today you celebrate Chad le Clos and everybody else because you saw them at the Sports Awards. [Interjections.] We are prepared and we are still going to support them. All of these athletes are beneficiaries of the Sports Awards.

You are invited to the Superbowl. The razzmatazz is not going to stop. [Applause.] It's going to be with you and it's going to engulf you. It has graduated from razzmatazz to being a humdinger. [Laughter.] Please, sort yourselves out with a suit and proper shoes. You will be welcomed at the door. [Laughter.] We are rocking and there's is no going back. Forward ever, backward never!

I want to thank the many great people whom I have met in sport ... [Interjections.] ... and I think, Lee, you will be thanked properly.