THE Department of Sport and Recreation will again this year host a seminar for the ThinkSport Journal with a line-up of industrythink-tanks.
On Saturday in Sandton, sports experts, as well as academics and political players, have been invited from all over the country to enhance the development and transformation agenda of sport.
The ThinkSport Journal was launched last year. Its seminar adds to constructive debate on issues affecting sport in South Africa.
SA is a country full of sharp contradictions, but it has emerged from her painful historical reality against the heaviest of odds.
In the past, discrimination, racism and exclusion were infused into the school curriculum and in the broader psyche of society to breed the desired results of apartheid.
This system became a determining factor to structurally and systematically position some to succeed and excel - at the expense of those discriminated against, the black majority.
This fertile ground, ploughed by the apartheid government to maintain white dominance in all walks of life and through sport and recreation, as well as the subsequent support this system enjoyed from white monopoly capital, influenced the architecture of colonial conquest at all levels of society. This included all participation in sport and recreation.
The 1992 unity dream, when two diametrically opposed groups and philosophies met and developed to share a new vision for sport and agree on a uniform cause of action, was an importantmilestone.
However, this process was hurried up as SA wanted to quickly participate once again in international sport.
Consequently, many strategic questions went unanswered and most issues of "principle" were not clearly defined.
The immediate adoption of apartheid's sporting codes - without "transformationpedagogy" - was an inherent mistake in the unity process; the monster we are living with today when it comes to transformation.
Thus, the National Sport and Recreation Indaba held in November 2011 became an epitome for a national united, nonracial and democratic sport system desired for this country.
The National Sport and Recreation Indaba - and the recent National Summit on Social Cohesion and Nation Building - made the remarkable admission that transformation in sport had failed.
Our long-term game plan should therefore continue to take into account the development of sports, especially within the previously disadvantaged communities, as well as working towards the transparent selection of teams, the fair provision of sporting facilities in all our communities in townships and rural areas.
Since this exercise is capital intensive, it requires all-round support from the public and private sector.
Let us fast-track our school sport and institutions of higher learning programmes, including community sport - and use them as "bedrocks" for the successful development of sport both locally and in the international arena.
SA needs to fast-track development of sport
THE Department of Sport and Recreation will again this year host a seminar for the ThinkSport Journal with a line-up of industrythink-tanks.
On Saturday in Sandton, sports experts, as well as academics and political players, have been invited from all over the country to enhance the development and transformation agenda of sport.
The ThinkSport Journal was launched last year. Its seminar adds to constructive debate on issues affecting sport in South Africa.
SA is a country full of sharp contradictions, but it has emerged from her painful historical reality against the heaviest of odds.
In the past, discrimination, racism and exclusion were infused into the school curriculum and in the broader psyche of society to breed the desired results of apartheid.
This system became a determining factor to structurally and systematically position some to succeed and excel - at the expense of those discriminated against, the black majority.
This fertile ground, ploughed by the apartheid government to maintain white dominance in all walks of life and through sport and recreation, as well as the subsequent support this system enjoyed from white monopoly capital, influenced the architecture of colonial conquest at all levels of society. This included all participation in sport and recreation.
The 1992 unity dream, when two diametrically opposed groups and philosophies met and developed to share a new vision for sport and agree on a uniform cause of action, was an importantmilestone.
However, this process was hurried up as SA wanted to quickly participate once again in international sport.
Consequently, many strategic questions went unanswered and most issues of "principle" were not clearly defined.
The immediate adoption of apartheid's sporting codes - without "transformationpedagogy" - was an inherent mistake in the unity process; the monster we are living with today when it comes to transformation.
Thus, the National Sport and Recreation Indaba held in November 2011 became an epitome for a national united, nonracial and democratic sport system desired for this country.
The National Sport and Recreation Indaba - and the recent National Summit on Social Cohesion and Nation Building - made the remarkable admission that transformation in sport had failed.
Our long-term game plan should therefore continue to take into account the development of sports, especially within the previously disadvantaged communities, as well as working towards the transparent selection of teams, the fair provision of sporting facilities in all our communities in townships and rural areas.
Since this exercise is capital intensive, it requires all-round support from the public and private sector.
Let us fast-track our school sport and institutions of higher learning programmes, including community sport - and use them as "bedrocks" for the successful development of sport both locally and in the international arena.
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