Hon Deputy Speaker, the Parliamentary Sport and Recreation Council outreach programme in KwaZulu-Natal, at kwaMthethwa in the Mbonambi Local Municipality on 21 April 2012 saw all spheres of government exhibiting the importance of the promotion of sport for wellness and unity amongst the communities.
The KwaZulu-Natal Legislature's Speaker, some MECs and MPLs, as well as mayors, councillors, traditional leaders and clergymen, joined our own MPs and took to the bushes in a 10 km fun run with community members! Community members, whilst engaging their public representatives in different sporting codes, also took advantage of being able to share problems with their public representatives.
Persons with disabilities were handed wheelchairs, crches received educational material, and schools and youth sports clubs received sports equipment from the relevant line function department.
We thank the Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, hon Peggy Nkonyeni and the government for demonstrating activism, and call upon other national departments to participate fully in the Sukuma Sakhe integrated programme in the premier's office, which is led by Social Development, as a vehicle to co-ordinate service delivery as a united force, like Home Affairs and Justice.
Oku siphinde sakubona kusenzeka eNgqungqu eMqanduli, kwesikaNkosi uNodumile Holomisa, iququzelelwa lilungu lale Ndlu namaqumrhu azimeleyo kula masipala kaKumkani uSabatha Dalindyebo. Sisitsho sisithi njengombutho wabantu, senza oku bekukhwazwa apha nguMongameli, kwabethelelwa nguMphathiswa wezeMpilo, ukuba masidlaleni ukuze siphile. Enkosi. [Kwaphela ixesha.] [Kwaqhwatywa.] (Translation of isiXhosa paragraph follows.)
[We have also witnessed this in a village called Ngqungqu in Mqanduli, under Chief Nodumile Holomisa, and it was organised by the member of this august House and the NGOs in King Sabatha Dalindyebo Municipality. As the people's party, we say we are practising the will of the President, and the Minister of Health has also emphasised this, that we must play and be active in order to be healthy. Thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]]