Government catches administrators off guard, risks the country being banned
Government has published a draft bill which will “nationalise” all sporting bodies such as SA Rugby, Cricket SA and Athletics SA, a move that could also see the minister of sport being directly involved in team selection.
The bill is so expansive that it even includes some sort of national service for athletes and the power to jail sports people for certain offences.
It also proposes to transfer nearly all the powers currently held by sporting bodies to a deputy director-general of the department of sport and recreation.
The Amendment Bill on Sport and Recreation, published just before Christmas, has caught the country’s sports administrators off guard.
Kobus Marais, a board member of the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), said if the bill was passed in its current form, South Africa would be kicked out of the Olympics because the international body ban
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