Sports council holds first meeting
Get involved with the Sydenham Sports Council by attending its first meeting on Saturday.
SYDENHAM Sports Council will hold its inaugural meeting on Saturday, 13 June at 2pm at Bechet High School in Barns Road, Sydenham.
This meeting is open and all sports club executives, members and participants, coaches and parents, schools’ sports coordinators and technical officials and all sports enthusiasts are welcome.
This initiative is in lieu of direction from the Sports Ministry and the South African Sport Confederation for the structure of sport at community and municipal ward level.
Ward 31 (Sydenham, Overport, Asherville, Musgrave, Berea) falls into the Victoria Mxenge District of the eThekwini Sports Confederation which functions within the mandate of KwaZulu-Natal Sports Confederation.
Representatives of sport and clubs in surrounding communities of Ward 31 are welcome to attend this meeting in preparation for their community meeting and election towards establishing a Ward 31 Sports Council and affiliation to Victoria Mxenge District Council.
The Department of Sport will in future only fund and resource communities that function within this structure and clubs who are affiliated to the Provincial Association of their respective discipline or code.
According to Easlyn Young from eThekwini Municipality’s Ward 31 Sport and Recreation department, participation in the direction, programmes and sports initiatives in the community will be determined by this Sports Council and its members.
“Full participation from community members is therefore crucial, to give children a chance to play, run, swim, be acknowledged and selected into eThekwini Municipal Teams and KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Teams for local government games and provincial and national competitions,” she said.
She said this initiative was geared towards integrating sport and providing for development, talent identification, coaching and selection at every level for every citizen who wishes to participate and has the potential to progress to international level.
Contact Easlyn Young on 084 242 0962 or easlynmayyoung@gmail.com
