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The “Framework for Collaboration: Co-ordination and Management of School Sport in Public Ordinary Schools” document was jointly signed on 17 March 2005. The joint signatories to this document were the Minister of Education, GNM Pandor, and the Minister of Sport and Recreation, MA Stofile. |
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Included in the said "Framework for Collaboration" document, is the imperative that school sport programmes must be strategically linked to national and provincial interventions, such as HIV & AIDS Awareness Campaigns, National and Provincial Crime Prevention Strategies, moral regeneration, etc.
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During the course of 2006/2007, the Premier of the Western Cape Province announced that school sport is a provincial priority. |
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During the course of 2006, the MEC for Education, Cameron Dugmore, recommended that a WCED-based school sport task team be put together. This team then linked with the School Sport sub-directorate of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS), so as to ensure jointly the delivery of school sport in the Western Cape Province. |
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On 12 May 2007, the Western Cape Education Ministry and its department (WCED), along with the Ministry for Cultural Affairs and Sport and its department (DCAS) jointly, at the launch of the organisation, Western Cape School Sport (WCSS), signed a Western Cape School Sport Memorandum of Agreement (MoA). WCSS, which is the Provincial Co-ordinating Committee (PROCOC) for School Sport in the Western Cape Province, has the following structures in place: Full Council, Executive Committee (Exco), and Management Committee (Manco). |
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1.5.1 Full Council: |
PROVINCE: WCED (2)
PROVINCE: DCAS (2)
PROVINCE: SGBs (2) = (1 per organisation)
PROVINCE: Teacher unions (3) = (1 per organisation)
PROVINCE: RCLs (7) = (1 per EMDC)
PROVINCE: WC sports forum (federations) (7) = (1/EMDC)
PROVINCE: WC local authorities (7) = (1 per EMDC)
PROVINCE: School sport codes (+- 20) = (1 per code)
PROVINCE: Special schools (7) = (1 per discipline)
PROVINCE: Volunteers (7) = (1 per EMDC)
DISTRICTS: DCAS (7) = (1 per EMDC)
DISTRICTS: WCED (7) = (1 per EMDC)
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1.5.2 Exco: |
PROVINCE: WCED (2)
PROVINCE: DCAS (2)
PROVINCE: SGBs (2) = (1 per organisation)
PROVINCE: Teacher unions (3) = (1 per organisation)
PROVINCE: Representative council of learners (1)
PROVINCE: WC sports forum (federations) (1)
PROVINCE: WC local authorities (1)
PROVINCE: School sport codes (4)
PROVINCE: Special schools (4)
PROVINCE: Volunteers (1 provincial representative)
EMDCs: DCAS (1 provincial representative)
EMDCs: WCED (1 provincial representative)
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1.5.3 Manco: |
2 DCAS representatives
2 WCED representatives
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The MoA commits the two departments to the joint organisation, co-ordination and implementation of school sport and it also creates the framework and determines the spirit that should underpin the delivery of school sport within the Western Cape Province. |
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School sport in the Western Cape Province now functions under the banner of Western Cape School Sport.
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| 2.2 |
It is the joint responsibility of the WCED and the DCAS to ensure the effective and efficient co-ordination, organisation, development and delivery of school sport in the Western Cape Province.
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The individual names of each of the codes of sport functioning under the auspices of Western Cape School Sport will be registered as "Western Cape School Sport Code", e.g. Western Cape School Sport: Football, and Western Cape School Sport: Netball.
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| 2.4 |
The schedule of official meetings per month are as follows:-
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2.4.1 Week 1:
| Manco |
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2.4.2 Week 2:
| District Officers |
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2.4.3 Week 3:
| Manco |
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2.4.4 Week 4:
| Exco |
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2.4.5 Week 5:
| Sub-Committees |
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2.4.6 Six Monthly:
| Full Council
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| 2.5 |
The District Officers meeting comprises the following representatives from each of the EMDCs, who will meet with the WCED/DCAS provincial managers of school sport: |
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2.5.1 The curriculum adviser in charge of school sport;
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2.5.2 The DCAS sport promotion officer;
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2.5.3 The DCAS school sport mass participation officer;
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2.5.4 The HIV & AIDS Life Skills representative; and
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2.5.5 The Safe Schools co-ordinator.
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| 2.6 |
The sub-committees will meet as the following individual sub-committees:
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2.6.1 Policy, research and development;
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2.6.2 Codes;
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2.6.3 Tournaments, festivals and talent identification;
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2.6.4 Finance, marketing, budgets and procurement;
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2.6.5 Archives (data, records, logistics and facilities); and
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2.6.6 Transformation.
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| 2.7 |
As the National and Provincial Co-ordinating Committees for School Sport have now been structured, the next step is for the District Co-ordinating Committee (DISCOC) for School Sport to be structured in each of the EMDCs. This process will unfold as follows:
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2.7.1 |
DISCOC information sessions and the establishment of DISCOC structures will take place as from Monday, 16 July 2007, to Friday, 31 August 2007. Each of the EMDCs will determine their own information session and establishment dates and venues. |
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2.7.2 |
Thereafter the DISCOC launches will take place as from Monday, 3 September 2007, to Friday, 21 September 2007. Each of the EMDCs will determine its own launch date. |
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Each DISCOC structure will comprise the following organisations/structures: |
| 2.8 |
The levels of school sport administration within the Western Cape Province will be as follows:
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ORGANISED PROGRAMMES
The following government and/or non-government sanctioned programmes are currently running within the various EMDCs:
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| 3.1 |
GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMMES |
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3.1.1 Junior Dipapadi (Foundation Phase)
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3.1.2 Play Sport
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3.1.3 Indigenous Games
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3.1.4 School Sport Mass Participation
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3.1.5 Code League Games
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NON-GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMMES |
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3.2.1 Skyball (Pilot programmes)
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3.2.2 JAG Road Runners (Pilot programmes)
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3.2.3 loveLife Games.
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RE-DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
When the WCED redesign strategy is implemented, the following will be included in the changes:
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Instead of the 7 EMDCs, there will be 8 EMDCs, which will be called Districts. School sport will be structured, operated, led and managed within each of the 8 EMDCs/Districts. |
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The school sport zones, as spoken of under 2.8, will become circuits. |
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The location of EMDCs/Districts will be such that each of them will fall within the boundaries of one of the six Western Cape municipal districts, which are Cape Metro, Cape Winelands, Central Karoo, Eden, Overberg, and West Coast.
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| 5.1 |
Representatives of the WCSS Management Committee will do the presentations at the DISCOC information sharing sessions, whilst the relevant EMDC will facilitate the whole process. |
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It must be noted that, as far as possible, the set dates and timeframes given for the relevant DISCOC information sharing sessions, establishment and launch must be adhered to. |
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To ensure that as many people as possible can share the most recent information relating to school sport, EMDCs are requested to host between 1 and 4 information sharing sessions at strategically placed venues, as required and where possible, over the period stipulated above.
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While it is imperative for all school principals and school sports co-ordinators to be present at at least 1 of the information sessions, it is requested that an open invitation be sent to all educators and the relevant role-players in school sport (as indicated in 1.5.1 and 1.5.2, e.g. sport federations, SGBs and teacher unions).
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SIGNED: SM NAICKER
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2007:07:27
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