The Minister informed the Committee that School Sport remained the bedrock for talent identification and nurturing and mass participation in sport. The Department was in the process of finalising the memorandum of understanding with the Department of Basic Education to make schools sport participation and development an integral part of a total scholarship. The Department recognised school sport as the bedrock or development in which a large pool of resources would be invested. A Memorandum of Understanding had already been signed with the Department of Basic Education to define roles and responsibilities. Work was in progress to implement the 2012 school league, which would culminate into the National Schools Competition at the end of the year.