Sport & recreation
The province's aim of becoming a model of sporting excellence will get a boost after a R1,5 million cheque was handed over to the Mpumalanga Sport Confederation (MSC) recently.
Indaba
Culture, Sport and Recreation MEC Sibongile Manana handed the cheque to MSC chairman Linda Zwane during a recent Mpumalanga Sport and Recreation Indaba at Mbombela stadium. More than 150 delegates attended the indaba. They discussed and made suggestions on how the province could turn into a model of sporting excellence.
Top athletes
The delegates proposed a unified and transformed sporting structure for schools, increased access to sport participation and professional coaching for all sporting codes to help produce top athletes.
The Mpumalanga Sport Confederation supports sport federations and councils at municipal and regional level and monitors and evaluates their work in different communities. The body also aims to bring programmes in line with the National Sport Plan.
National indaba
Manana said the department would work with the Mpumalanga Sport Confederation to finalise the provincial document and submit it to the national department of sport and recreation. A national indaba will be held later this year.
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