Chairperson, good afternoon, Minister and Deputy Minister, hon members and comrades. I am going to speak about contemporary issues that we, as the portfolio committee and the oversight committee, pick up in our work on a daily basis.
In pursuit to grant the Minister this budget, which the ANC supports, we had to go through how this department is spending money and the challenges faced by this department. I would like to say, however, that the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport, Saids, is doing a very good job.
Given the 5% that Saids is getting from the Minister and the Director- General in the light of the challenges that Saids is faced with - out-of- competition testing; blood testing; passport testing; and the 3 000 average target given by the World Anti-Doping Agency, Wada, to Saids and the money that they are getting - the portfolio committee and the ANC feel that it is important that we check into those challenges, because it was easy for urine testing, blood testing and passport testing to meet that target of 3 000. These are only a few of the challenges that Saids is faced with. Therefore, we urge that the Minister look into this matter seriously, because part of that 5% is for educational campaigns at schools. I feel that Saids is giving us quality for our money and we are all pleased with the work they are doing.
To come to the thorny issue of Boxing South Africa - this has become a pain for everybody in the committee. [Laughter.] But this pain, Minister, has been a pain that the portfolio committee has endured for five years. Boxing South Africa has now been running for five years with a qualified audit report and the committee has taken up the responsibility to try and assist Boxing South Africa to get out of that quagmire. The Auditor-General has given the committee a certain Mr Steenkamp, and we sat from the morning until seven o'clock that evening trying to assist Boxing South Africa in handling these issues so that the Auditor-General does not give Boxing South Africa a qualified report. Up until today, Boxing South Africa has had a qualified audit report.
There is no leadership in the board of Boxing South Africa. Our view, as the committee, is that the Minister should dissolve that board, because that board impacts on the work of Boxing South Africa. Therefore Boxing South Africa cannot exercise its duties, because the board has a responsibility to look into the issues and the running of Boxing South Africa on a daily basis. The Board of Boxing South Africa is nonfunctionary, inefficient and paralysed and it is a waste of our time. [Applause.] We are therefore urging the Minister to dissolve that board. [Interjections.]