Way forward for Lim federations
Sports federations in the province got an opportunity to interact with officials from the department of sport, arts and culture during a progress assessment meeting at the Peter Mokaba Sports Complex on Friday.
POLOKWANE – Sports federations in the province got an opportunity to interact with officials from the department of sport, arts and culture during a progress assessment meeting at the Peter Mokaba Sports Complex on Friday.
The main aim of the meeting was to assess the progress made thus far following the Limpopo Provincial Sport and Recreation Indaba in January this year.
The department’s sports and recreation general manager, Veronica Choshane, said: “all the sports federations were given tasks during the sports indaba that they should pay full attention to in order to improve their standards. The provincial government together with Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) jointly held the sports and recreation indaba to address issues such as school sport, sport development, academies, recreation, funding and marketing”.
During the indaba, the departments of education and sport, arts and culture were tasked to increase the number of schools registration for participation in the schools sports league to 90% in 2015 and 100% in 2016.
The departments were also tasked to encourage volunteerism in the sports fraternity by availing incentives such as bursaries, internships and learnerships among others.
Slate Shiluvhane, Limpopo Sports Academy acting manager, said the academy did not have many crises and had succeeded in finding an orthopedic specialist to treat the athletes’ injuries.
“We are now in negotiation with National Lottery for funds to improve a few things in the academy,” said Shiluvhane.
Federations accused the coaching commission of maltreatment and making empty promises. They said the commission promised to host coaching and scout courses to train people, but never did and failed to communicate with federations.
Kobus Redelinghuys from the coaching commission said the commission did all it could to assist sports federations in the province.
“We have been training people, but the problem we have is that the people we train do not coach where they stay to put the skills they learnt in practice,” he said.
