Questions

How successful are the SRSA’s policies regarding equitable access in terms of race, gender and disability?
Has funding been allocated on a sustainable basis in order to provide sporting facilities, training and opportunities for historically disadvantaged communities, women, girls and the disabled?
Provincial visits undertaken by the Portfolio Committee on Sports and Recreation have exposed enormous backlogs in the provision of adequate and accessible sporting facilities to poor urban and rural communities. Given this situation, is the allocation for the building and upgrading of sports facilities adequate?
What progress has been made with regard to the merger between SRSA and the SASC?
What progress has been made with regard to the establishment of the national NGO tasked with responsibility for SA’s participation at international level?
What progress has been made with regard to the establishment of the National Sports Academy? Given the role envisaged for the Academy, is the funding allocated sufficient?
What progress has been made with regard to the creation of a national strategy for bidding for and hosting major international sports events?

Contd.

Has the MoU between SRSA and the Department of Education, regarding the location of school sport been finalised yet? If so, and given that many schools and colleges are under-resourced and that a lack of co-operation has been experienced with regard to the provision of facilities by the Department of Education, what are the funding implications of this decision?


Programme Analysis

Programme 1: Administration

Administration is responsible for the overall management of SRSA and provides centralised support services. These include legal, communication and marketing services, financial services and ministerial services.

Expenditure trends

The main increase in expenditure is in the Corporate Services subprogramme, going to upgrade the department’s IT system over the MTEF period and providing for the incorporation of the SASC from 2005/06. These items are also the main reasons for the increased projected expenditure on the compensation of employees, goods and services.

Table 2: Expenditure Estimates of Administration

Programme 2: Funding, Policy and Liaison

This programme aims to increase participation in sport and recreation; improve the performance of South Africans in sport; and enhance quality of life. This will be achieved by creating an enabling environment, so that the number of participants may be increased; the number of successes of South African teams and sportspersons in major international events may be increased; and the number of successful events hosted in South Africa may be increased. It is envisaged that the programme structure will change from the 2005/06 financial year as a result of the amalgamation of SRSA and the SASC.

Table 3: Funding, Policy and Liaison

The budget for this programme increased from R59 million in 2000/01 to R126,1 million in 2004/05.

Expenditure trends are skewed by once-off allocations of R8 million for the South Africa 2006 Soccer World Cup Bid in 2000/01 and a R12,5 million rollover from the Department of Industry for the Cricket World Cup Legacy Project in 2002/03.
The increases for the medium term are mainly due to the pilot programme for the establishment of the National Sport Academy, increased allocations for mass participation and the loveLife Games.
The allocations for 2005/06 and 2006/07 include amounts of R7 million and R9 million respectively for sport promotion and facility management training.
Due to the incorporation of the SASC into the department, the 2005/06 and 2006/07 medium term estimates for transfer payments decrease.

Key outputs

Assistance provided to 21 national sport federations contributed to South Africa’s medal tally in the 2003 All Africa Games.
The South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport conducted 2 000 drug test, exceeding its target. Anti-doping programmes aimed at schools and school sports educators were also conducted.
A more focused strategy for funding mass participation and high performance programmes was finalised and implemented.
Coach exchange programmes were held with the Netherlands, China and Algeria – 142 coaches participated.
Workshops on transformation in sport were held in seven provinces. This has contributed to the development of a Sports Transformation Charter that will be the guiding document of sport in South Africa.
The Cricket World Cup attracted more than 18 000 foreigners and resulted in spending estimated to exceed R1 billion.


Questions

With regard to the role of recreation in the enhancement of quality of life, are there any current or future plans for community recreation programmes?
The department has increased funding for mass participation in sport. How will the success and weakness of this initiative be evaluated?
The Funding, Policy and Liaison programme monitors and evaluates sport and recreation policy. How is the outcome of the evaluation procedure processed and ultimately integrated into future sport and recreation policies?
Was the target of providing support to 30 federations, 18 teams and 1 000 sportspersons reached?
Did the anti-doping education programme reach its target of 15 000 people?
The exchange programme for coaches easily exceeded its target of 40 participants. Is an evaluation programme in place to assess the value of each exchange programme?
Was the target of 40 in the exchange programme for sportspersons reached?
Was the target of 100 better-qualified coaches reached?
Was the target of 2 million foreigners reached through an international marketing strategy achieved? What methodology is used to arrive at an estimate of these numbers?
Was the target of a 50% increase in foreign participants in South African sport reached?
The development of the Sports Transformation Charter does not appear to have been finalised by November 2003 as envisaged. What are the problems facing the finalisation and completion of the Charter?


Programme 3: Building for Sport and Recreation

The aim of this programme is to contribute to increased participation in sport and recreation activities as well as job creation by providing funding for building and upgrading infrastructure. Apart from the administrative function, the ‘Building for sport’ subprogramme provides transfers to local authorities in terms of the annual Division of Revenue Act.

Table 4: Building for Sport and Recreation

Expenditure trends

Funding for the ‘Building for Sport and Recreation’ programme increased from R90 million in 2002/03 to R130 million in 2003/04.
In 2004/05 it will increase to R137,2 million, which includes R5 million for sport promotion and facility management training.
From 2005/06 onwards the programme will be consolidated within the Municipal Infrastructure Grant and the funding and monitoring of the programme will be incorporated in the Funding, Policy and Liaison Programme.

Key outputs

In 2001/02 the following key outputs were achieved by SRSA:

55 projects were funded countrywide.
37 sports facilities were built
18 new facilities were completed.

By 2002/03, the following projects were completed:

The majority of the 85 facilities targeted for upgrading or building were completed.
Approximately 5 500 jobs were created in the process.



In 2003/04:

It is estimated that the 2003/04 programme will generate approximately 6 000 temporary jobs.
Community Sports Councils have been established and empowered to manage each of the 114 facilities.

Questions

Some 85 upgraded or new sports facilities planned under the 2002/03 Budget had not been completed by the target date of March 2003. What were the obstacles that prevented completion at that time? Has the construction programme now been completed?
It has been estimated that a total of 5 500 jobs has been created by the 2002/03 building programme thus far. How many of these jobs were permanent and what is the gender breakdown for this figure?
The majority of the 114 upgraded or new sports facilities currently under construction are planned for completion by March 2004. Is the construction programme on schedule for completion by this date? If not, what are the main problems preventing completion?
To what extent do these facilities provide for the sporting interests of females and the needs of the disabled?
It is estimated that the 2003/04 programme will generate approximately 6 000 temporary jobs. What are the main types of jobs being generated and what is the gender breakdown for this figure envisaged to be?
Is a monitoring and support programme in place, which assists the smooth and efficient functioning of the 114 Community Sports Councils?
What is the percentage of female participation, as well as participation by the disabled in the Community Sports Councils?
Is a procedure in place, which ensures speedy intervention if the management of the facilities by Community Sports Councils is hampered by problems such as financial mismanagement, gross inefficiency, corruption?
The planned 114 facilities will all be built within disadvantaged rural and urban areas. This will undoubtedly go some way towards meeting the acute backlog in sporting facilities and infrastructure. However, given the extent of the need for basic sporting facilities and infrastructure, and the inability of most poor communities to gain access to existing facilities (due to problems such as lack of transport, privatisation of facilities), are these initiatives sufficient?


Contd.

Several persistent and widespread problems have been reported by the Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation. These include: (i) the lack of funding and staff to prevent vandalism and to provide for the maintenance of existing facilities; (ii) racial inequities in access to sporting facilities and infrastructure; (iii) lack of access to sporting facilities and infrastructure; and (iv) lack of planning with regard to the sporting interests of women and girls, and special needs relating to gender and disability (e.g. access, safety, convenience, transport). Are the initiatives proposed by the department sufficient to deal with these ongoing problems? Is the funding sufficient to resolve these problems?



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References

Estimates of National Expenditure. 2003.
Estimates of National Expenditure. 2004.
Parliamentary Papers: Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports, no.21., 27 February 2004: Report of the Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation on Provincial Visits undertaken in August 2003.

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