That is why ...
IsiXhosa:
... oyisiwe ukuba abengumeya yinto yokuba uthanda ukubuza izinto ezingekhoyo. [Welewele.]
English:
Hon House Chairperson, I wanted to find out from the Minister how are we going to make sure that we support women's development and women in sports? What does the department have especially to address issues of funding? For example in Soweto we had a sports academy that is opened but the attendance was very poor. What are we going to do to make sure that supporters or donors are coming to support women in sports? Thank you, Chair.
The MINISTER OF SPORT, ARTS AND CULTURE: Hon member, I would want you to help me understand your determination of the EPG which is not working. The EPG has been put in place to track transformation. It is a scientific system and not a thumb sucking activity. It cannot happen today. There are targets and barometers put. What we should do id to trace that and respond to them and in that way you can then come to the determination that the EPG is not working.
I have just responded to a question here of the under 15 and under 17 women. You have seen that some of the sporting codes are not where they were before the EPG process. The road is still long but the there are steps which have been taken. As we go forward there is going to be transformation especially because the targets which are there are no longer coming outside of the federations but are self set targets.
The issue of funding, I think is a big problem. Women in sport and sporting codes of women have to do more to prove themselves. We only saw with the Netball South Africa after having gone to
top four of the world. It is only now that some companies in the private sector are showing interest.
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