SPORT Minister Fikile Mbalula announced what he called a "scientific approach" to transformation in all of the sporting codes yesterday.
Speaking at the announcement of the Department of Sport and Recreation's partnership with Nestle in a newschools programme, Mbalula, pictured, said that at the sports indaba held in 2011, the sports federations had committed to transformation.
"We are addressing transformation in sport as part of the National Sports Plan. Our national sporting codes must be reflective of the demographics, and we must be able to achieve equity and access."
The subject of transformation in sport was once again in the spotlight, after archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu called for greater transformation in rugby last week.
On the weekend the Springboks fielded only three black players [Bryan Habana, Tendai Mtawarira and Cornal Hendricks] in their loss to Australia, with Trevor Nyakane coming off the bench.
Mbalula felt it was unfair to single out rugby and said: "We are addressing all sporting codes . All the [sporting] federations are going to sign a national agreement of transformation."
Mbalula did not outline consequences for failure to transform but said that the federations had agreed to maintain quotas and a score card, and that they would be judged on those.
The minister said that he had received plans for transformation from the SA Football Association, the SA Rugby Union and Cricket SA. And he was expecting plans from Athletics SA yesterday afternoon.
"We are a few months away from signing the agreement on national transformation. I'm optimistic about the progress we are making."
Quotas in spotlight
SPORT Minister Fikile Mbalula announced what he called a "scientific approach" to transformation in all of the sporting codes yesterday.
Speaking at the announcement of the Department of Sport and Recreation's partnership with Nestle in a newschools programme, Mbalula, pictured, said that at the sports indaba held in 2011, the sports federations had committed to transformation.
"We are addressing transformation in sport as part of the National Sports Plan. Our national sporting codes must be reflective of the demographics, and we must be able to achieve equity and access."
The subject of transformation in sport was once again in the spotlight, after archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu called for greater transformation in rugby last week.
On the weekend the Springboks fielded only three black players [Bryan Habana, Tendai Mtawarira and Cornal Hendricks] in their loss to Australia, with Trevor Nyakane coming off the bench.
Mbalula felt it was unfair to single out rugby and said: "We are addressing all sporting codes . All the [sporting] federations are going to sign a national agreement of transformation."
Mbalula did not outline consequences for failure to transform but said that the federations had agreed to maintain quotas and a score card, and that they would be judged on those.
The minister said that he had received plans for transformation from the SA Football Association, the SA Rugby Union and Cricket SA. And he was expecting plans from Athletics SA yesterday afternoon.
"We are a few months away from signing the agreement on national transformation. I'm optimistic about the progress we are making."