4.2. School Sports A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) in December 2011 had improved relations between the two Departments. The Minister, Angie Motshekga had gazetted a school sport policy which would receive final input from the public at the end of March and hopefully be finalised by June 2012. The policy would among other things compel students to participate in sport in schools and would make it mandatory for each school to have one sporting code in 2012. In mass participation programmes the Department was using the conditional grant as the key tool to ensure that provinces adhere to regulations and laid down expectations and all provinces had supported the grant tool. More ways of monitoring the provincial grant were being considered and the Department had established a focused task team to manage and monitor the process as well as provide support to provinces that were struggling with spending their allocations.