?as MEC launches school leagues
By Molefi Sompane
MEC Dan Kgothule
BLOEMFONTEIN - The Free State Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation (SACR) has recommitted itself to developing schools sport in the province.
MEC Dan Kgothule said this when he handed over soccer attire to various schools at the DR Cingo in Maokeng Kroonstad on Wednesday, February 15 at the launch of the Free State Schools Sports league.
?These schools sport programmes are a practical expression of our commitment to take school sport to greater heights in the Province. We have also strengthened our partnership with the Department of Education which is our formidable partner in the implementation of School Sport.
?The structured school sport league will enable us to implement our school sport programme in a comprehensive and organized manner,? Kgothule said.
Incorporating sports and reviving mass participation in schools, would give renewed opportunities to learners to remain in school and complete their education.
?We must use school sport as a nursery for talent identification and development, which will lead to our learners moving onto higher honors and make us all proud,? he added.
Kgothule said his department was willing to develop sport in the province and the best places for that to happen was at schools. Kgothule said as the country which successfully organized the football World Cup schools soccer is where the legacy remains more than any other places.
Kgothule said: ?We are now on a path of re-introducing sports leagues in all public schools ensuring that all learners are provided with an opportunity to participate in school sport thus creating conditions for talent identification and development by federations.
?The leagues will be implemented at various levels starting from level 1 (intra school leagues), level 2 (inter schools leagues), level 3 (district festival), level 4 (inter-district/Provincial festival) and level 5 (national festival). The leagues will focus on the following on Football, Volleyball, Cricket, Athletics, Rugby, Chess, Basketball, Tennis, Gymnastics, Netball and Aquatics.?
The department launched a school sport controlling body in 2010 ahead of the world cup to review the sport in the province.
?Since that launch we have made a number of enormous strides in implementing school sport in the Free State. Some of the programmes we implemented since then include the 2010 Schools Adventure and the 32 Schools Mini Soccer World Cup. These two programmes served as part of a build-up programme towards the 2010 FIFA World Cup that we hosted two years back as a country. We intensified the feeling of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in the schools,? he said.
The tournament will be in tribute to Motlalepule Ntsala who died in 2010 during match. He was a Grade 11 learner at the Boitumelo Secondary School in Meqheleng, Ficksburg.
Kgothule said his department has committed itself to promoting sports codes and encouraging people to partake in sport through various interventions. He believes that through sports there would be reconciliation among the people.
?Sport and Recreation and Education are important vehicles for building a transformed, non-racial, non-sexist society, united in diversity. Both are also essential in the promotion of national reconciliation, social cohesion and national identity, Sport is an indispensable means of improving the social fabric of our society, and can make a very real contribution to ensuring our children lead meaningful lives. We have a duty to revive sport in our schools, and ensure mass participation from our learners. Competitiveness from a young age is healthy, as long as it is nurtured in a positive spirit,? he added.
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Source: http://www.publiceyenews.com/2012/02/27/short-in-arm-for-schools-sport/
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