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Title: DISABILITY SPORT SOUTH AFRICA


1
DISABILITY SPORT SOUTH AFRICA
  • Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Sport
    and Recreation
  • Cape Town 10 June 2003

2
DELEGATION
  • Peter Goldhawk
  • Arthur Cowley
  • Tony Heyns
  • Mpume Nkabinde
  • President
  • Vice President
  • Vice President
  • Special Olympics

3
AGENDA
  • Recognition status
  • Structures
  • Active sports
  • 2002 sporting achievements
  • Funding
  • Progress
  • Mass participation
  • Contribution to Africa
  • Challenges
  • Our commitment
  • Conclusion

4
RECOGNITION STATUS
  • DISSA recognised as the national controlling body
    for sportspersons with disability by
  • International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
  • African Sports Confederation of Disabled (ASCOD)
  • Ministry of Sport and Recreation
  • Sport and Recreation South Africa
  • South African Sports Commission
  • National Olympic Committee of SA
  • Supreme Council - Zone VI
  • SA Commonwealth Games Association
  • Office on the Status of Disabled Persons
  • SA Federal Council on Disability

5
STRUCTURES
  • Seven different disability groups
  • Amputee
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf
  • Intellectually disabled
  • Les autres
  • Visually impaired
  • Spinal cord injuries
  • Current affiliates
  • Physically disabled
  • Intellectually disabled
  • Deaf
  • Soon to be affiliated (unity process well
    underway)
  • Sport for the Intellectually Disabled SA
    (organisation bringing together Special Olympics
    SASA-II)

6
ACTIVE SPORTS
  • Alpine skiing
  • Archery
  • Athletics
  • Badminton
  • Basketball
  • Boccia
  • Bowls
  • Cricket
  • Cross-country
  • Cycling
  • Equestrian
  • Golf
  • Goalball
  • Hokker
  • Lawn Bowls
  • Netball
  • Powerlifting
  • Rugby
  • Sailing
  • Shooting
  • Soccer
  • Swimming
  • Table Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Wheelchair dance
  • Wheelchair rugby
  • Wheelchair tennis
  • Baseball

7
2002 SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS
  • IPC World Championships
  • Athletics 11 gold, 3 silver, 8 bronze 6th of
    80 overall
  • Cycling 1 gold, 3 bronze 12th of 35 overall
  • Powerlifting 1 bronze 16th of 45 overall
  • Swimming 3 gold, 2 silver of 19th of 56 overall
  • Basketball 12th of 12 overall
  • Table Tennis 4th place in womens team event
  • Other internationals
  • Winter Paralympics best finish 9th in slalom
  • World Table Tennis Team Cup 6th of 13 overall
  • Equestrian no medal placing
  • Deaf Golf mens individual champion
  • Deaf Bowls no medals
  • INAS-FID Soccer 9th of 12 overall

8
FUNDING
  • Success with the Paralympic team well-known
    brand now
  • Support for Special Olympics team from Sport
    Recreation SA
  • Support for the Deaflympic team application to
    the Lottery
  • Support for the administration of DISSA, SADSF,
    SASA-II Sport Recreation SA
  • Developing three brands Paralympic, Deaflympic
    and Special Olympic teams

9
PARALYMPIC TEAM SPONSORS
10
PARALYMPIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST
  • SPONSORS
  • Transnet
  • Nedbank Corporate and Nomads
  • OBJECTS
  • Support of development program
  • Equipment
  • Transport
  • But not where funds are available from
    alternative sources such as Lotteries, Sports
    Trust or Poverty Relief program

11
FUNDING ISSUES
  • Administration
  • Minimal support from SRSA
  • No support from Lotteries
  • No attraction to Sponsors
  • Effect
  • Lack of capacity to manage development projects

12
PROGRESS
  • Strategy
  • Inclusion
  • working on provincial DISSA structures
  • SID Special Olympics team competing under the
    Protea for the first time
  • Use of able-bodied sports structures
  • inclusive teams to Commonwealth and All Africa
    Games
  • working with NFs on inclusion in practice
  • working with the Ministry and SRSA to include
    disability as part of Transformation Charter
  • SA Games
  • provincial academies
  • Development in SCSA Zone VI
  • will be working with ASCOD Zone VI

13
MASS PARTICIPATION
  • Rural development project funded by Transnet in
    Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West in 4 sports
  • Other development funded by SRSA in Gauteng,
    Western Cape and KZN in 3 sports
  • 2002/3 Lottery grant to train coaches, officials,
    administrators, classifiers
  • Transnet Linkage Programme (talent identification
    and development pilot) in KZN, Western Cape and
    Gauteng 62 of LSEN schools
  • 2003/4 SRSA funding for Free State, Northern Cape
    and Eastern Cape

14
CONTRIBUTION TO AFRICA
  • Sharing teaching resources
  • Bidding and hosting manual (courtesy of the SA
    Sports Commission)
  • Excerpts of team management training (courtesy of
    SASC)
  • Documentation, budgets, policies, proposals
    (courtesy of DISSA)
  • African Paralympic Academy
  • Contribution to establishment of Academy
  • Assistance in teaching 14 African Paralympic
    leaders

15
CHALLENGES 1
  • For the athletes
  • Accessible facilities, transport, parking,
    equipment
  • For Schools
  • Mainstreaming and the education system
  • Physical education in the core curriculum
  • Training of educators, medical personnel

16
CHALLENGES 2
  • For DISSA
  • Funding for development administration
  • SASA-II based in the schools
  • SADSF restructuring
  • Lack of sufficient competition opportunities
    locally
  • Access to SAQA funding to train volunteers
  • Provincial support for the establishment of
    provincial DISSAs uneven

17
OUR COMMITMENT
  • To facilitate inclusion at all levels while not
    compromising service delivery
  • To work with all disability groups
  • To work with all able-bodied federations,
    Ministry, SRSA, SASC, Department of Education
  • To promote sport for the disabled in Africa
    the African Decade on Disability
  • To promote equity issues within our structures
    gender, disability, rural, black, HIV/AIDS status
  • To ensure that every person with a disability can
    reach their full sporting potential

18
CONCLUSION
  • Eliminate duplication through inclusion
  • Cooperate with other sports bodies
  • Close cooperation with Government at all levels
  • Dedicated and hard working people
  • staff
  • volunteers
  • Promote good corporate governance and ethics
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