USSASA PRESENTATION TO PARLIAMENT ON 01 MARCH 2005

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USSASA PRESENTATION TO PARLIAMENT ON 01 MARCH 2005

• USSASA BACKGROUND
• USSASA is the National organisation co-ordinating
  school sport in South Africa. It is recognised
  by government and SASCOC in this role.

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• USSASA is a multi-coded organisation modelled on
  the sports structure of a school. It is made up
  of a National Executive Committee supervising 26
  Code Committees, an Indigenous Games Committee as
  well as an LSEN Committee. (This national
  structure together with representatives from all
  the Provinces and Regions make up the National
  General Council)

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• USSASA has 9 Provincial structures which are
  similar to the National structure, 44 Regional
  structures, 206 District/Zone structures and 1114
  Circuit/Sub-Zone structures to which about 30 000
  schools are affiliated.

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• The biggest problem at the moment is that there
  is no funding available for all the activities
  taking place at Regional, District and Circuit
  levels while National and Provincial activities
  are partly funded. Poor children still do not
  fully enjoy their right to participate in sport.

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• 14 million learners and more than 300 000
  educators, parents and other volunteers are
  involved in the organisation at all levels from
  School to International.
• Considering that most learners participate in at
  least 2 and some up to 6 codes of sport for both
  recreational as well as high performance
  purposes, it can be estimated that participation
  levels in school sport can reach 40 million if
  there was sufficient funding.

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• The Codes played under USSASA are
• Aquatics Athletics Badminton
• Baseball Basketball Boxing
• Chess Cricket Dance Sport
• Drummies Equestrian Football
• Golf Gymnastics Handball
• Hockey Korfball Netball
• Pool Rugby Shooting
• Squash Softball Table Tennis
• Tennis Volleyball LSEN Codes
• Indigenous
• games

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• RELATIONSHIPS WITH SENIOR
• FEDERATIONS
• USSASA has healthy relations with most of the
  Federations whose sport codes are played at
  school level.
• USSASA has a responsibility to ensure that
  relations with all its Senior Federations are
  good. The assistance of the SASCOC board may be
  needed in this regard.

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• USSASA AFFILIATIONS
• USSASA is affiliated to the Confederation of
  School Sports Associations of Southern Africa
  (COSSASA) and the International Schoolsport
  Federation (ISF).
• USSASA is an Associate member of SASCOC. All
  Team South Africa responsibilities of USSASA
  have been transferred to SASCOC. We are very
  happy that SASCOC has set up a School Sport
  Commission to take care of this.

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• The placement of the MASS PARTICIPATION component
  of USSASA has still not been fully addressed.
• USSASA understands that government has accepted
  all MASS PARTICIPATION responsibilities in
  sport. The details of the delivery structures
  thereof have not yet been discussed and finalised
  with all affected stakeholders.

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• NEED FOR STATUTORY RECOGNITION
• FOR USSASA AS PART OF THE MASS
• PARTICIPATION DELIVERY STRUCTURE
• The statutory recognition, appreciation and
  protection of some 300 000 volunteers delivering
  Mass Participation and Sport-for-all programmes
  for millions of learners in our country needs to
  be seriously considered.

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• The alternative would be for government to employ
  thousands of coaches, officials and
  administrators.
• Such a structure would possibly take the shape of
  the Arts Councils / the Aids Council / the HSRC
  or the CSIR etc.
• Such a structure would also facilitate
  co-operation between various departments for
  addressing various government priorities (Crime
  HIV/Aids Poverty etc).

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• There may also be a need to regulate the
  functioning and funding of such a structure to
  ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of the
  envisaged programmes as well as its relationship
  with National Federations.
• Such legislation would also go a long way to
  easing the beaurocratic tensions between the
  Education and Sports Departments at National and
  Provincial levels.

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• USSASA PROGRAMMES
• USSASA runs development programmes from National
  level cascading to the local level and schools.
  These are mainly human resource development
  projects (admin coaching technical) but
  sometimes include supply of equipment, provision
  of facilities and upgrading of facilities. All
  these depend on available sponsorship or funding

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• USSASA and all its structures organises
  recreational and competitive events at all
  levels.
• SCHOOL-TO-NATIONAL LEVEL EVENTS
• Aquatics Athletics
• Winter Games Cross Country
• Summer Games
• Sponsored events
• Chappies MTN Kay Motsepe Shoprite Loveli
  fe
• Games

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• INTERNATIONAL LEVEL EVENTS
• COSSASA Athletics
• COSSASA Ball Games
• Football Netball Volleyball Basketball
• ISF Championships (School teams)
• Swimming Athletics Tennis
• Basketball Volleyball Football
• Gymnastics Table Tennis Badminton
• Handball.

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• ISF Gymnasiade
• (Representative teams Every 4 years))
• Athletic Aquatics Gymnastics
• Pacific School Games
• (Representative teams Every 4 years)
• Athletics Aquatics Basketball (For the
  different ability groups)

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• USSASA ADMINISTRATION
• USSASA National Office
• Rented Office
• Office Furniture and equipment
• Running expenses for the office
• Support for the structure
• Staffing requirements 1 General Manager
• 4 Managers
• 6 support staff

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• Provincial and Regional Offices
• Office space
• Furniture and equipment
• Running expenses for the office
• Support for the structure
• Staffing requirements Office Manager
• Support staff

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• TRANSFORMATION OF SPORT IN S.A.
• USSASAS ROLE
• USSASAs potential to contribute towards the
  transformation of sports in South Africa is
  guaranteed by the existence of its structures in
  all corners of South Africa.

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• The success of its interventions depend on the
  availability of funds to take ALL sport codes to
  ALL the corners of the country
• Talent Identification and Development must happen
  (and accurate records must be kept) from the
  lowest level (Circuit level) of the structure.

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• A very close relationship between the USSASA
  structures and the Sports Academy system is
  crucial for this.
• Regular recreational and competitive sports
  activities must happen (and be seen to be
  happening) at Circuit and District level.

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• USSASA volunteers must be kept motivated
  (especially those operating at the lower levels)
  to drive these processes.
• Identified talent must be fed into the academy
  system and the development programmes of the
  Senior Federations.

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• The best talent within a school and from Circuit
  activities must be directed to the local clubs.
  (USSASA must continue providing opportunities for
  all other learners)
• Emerging talent at District and Regional events
  must be directed to the Satellite academies for
  further development and mentoring.

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• Talent identified at Provincial and National
  events must be directed to the Provincial and the
  National Academies.
• USSASA must have dedicated TID managers/officials
  at all levels of the structure.