Mapepeza Newspaper
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VOL. 6 ISSUE #16 - 13-20 DEC 2019
Sports
Gauteng’s JVW crowned champs! Gauteng based JVW Football Club were crowned the 2019 champions of the Sasol League on 8 December. Goals by Gabriela Salgado and Nicole Irwin ensured that JVW Football Club clinch the trophy including a R200 000 cheque. Nine teams – all provincial champions from the Sasol League – went to battle it out for the top honours. Teams that competed include: Executive Ladies FC (Eastern Cape); Ixias FC (Free State); JVW FC (Gauteng); Sunflower FC (KwaZulu Natal); Ma Indies FC (Limpopo); Nkomazi Ladies FC (Mpuma-
langa); Royal Queens FC (North West); Royal Wizards FC (Northern Cape) and Vasco Da Gama (Western Cape). The trophy remains in the Gauteng province as Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) won the competition last year. JVW FC is a South African women's football club based in Bedford view Ekurhuleni. Since 2014, the club has been affiliated to the South African Football Association. The First Team competes at the highest level of women's football in South Africa, The Sasol League, whilst the rest of
the club competes in the local league, under Eastern Local Football Association. Established in 2013, the team is part of the JVW Girls Football Development Program, which was founded in 2012 by the South African Senior Women’s National Team captain, Janine van Wyk. Van Wyk. As finalists, both JVW Girls Footbal and runners-up Ma Indies have been being promoted to the SAFA National League. Tsakane Stadium is the official host of the Sasol National Championship Women’s League which kicked off on December 3 until the 8th.
Sports Portfolio committee calls for more funding for federations,councils! The Gauteng Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation has called for more funding for local sports federations and councils in the province. The committee’s chairperson, Honorable William Matsheke (on behalf of the Portfolio Committee) indicated during the Gauteng Sport Confederation Strategic Planning Session that the current budget allocation to the Gauteng Sport Confederation of R5,3 Million as part of the Conditional Grant allocation for partnerships with community structures for recreational activities and school sport structures amongst others is not sufficient compared to other Provinces considering the size of the population of Gauteng. The Portfolio Committee called upon the department to re-look at the budget allocation to the Gauteng Sports Confederation as the current budget allocation is minimal for the confederation to adhere to its mandate as indicated on the National Sports and Recreation Plan Vision 2030. The Committee further calls upon the department to redirect the transfers that they are currently transferring directly to clubs and affiliates of the confederation to be redirected to the confederation for improved monitoring and
evaluation by the confederation as highlighted by the National Sport and Recreation Plan. “By doing such the department will avoid a situation where there are duplication of resources and previously disadvantaged sporting codes will also get an equal share of the transfers as the current system favours the previously advantaged sporting codes,” said the chairperson. The Chairperson further indicated that funding for sports in Gauteng is too fragmented as there is a lot of funding that goes to individual clubs or associations and therefore indicated that there is a need for these funds to be channelled to Gauteng Sport Confederation since they are experts in sport development. According toThe National Sport and Recreation Plan Vision 2030: Strategic Objectives, objective 11 states the government will integrate the development of South African Sport at Provincial and local levels through sports councils and confederations. Among the key activities of the implementation of such a goal, the provincial government through the provincial sport department guided by SASCOC should ensure that sports councils/ confederations are structured and operational at local, regional and provincial levels. The Provincial department, in this instance, the Gaut-
eng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation should provide seed and incubation funding for the Provincial Sport Council/Confederation. It should also ensure that Councils/Confederations act as an interface to support the linking of hubs/clubs with federations, municipalities, civil society structures and NGOs to ensure integration of sports programs and to avoid duplication of resources. The committee was invited invited by the Gauteng Sport Confederation to their Strategic Planning Session held on Saturday, October 12 as part of its responsibilities of oversight and scrutiny on departmental programs.
“The current budget allocation to the Gauteng Sport Confederation of R5,3 Million as part of the Conditional Grant allocation for partnerships with community structures for recreational activities and school sport structures amongst others....” Gauteng Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation chairperson, Hon. William Matsheke
