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6 June 2005

BROAD OVERVIEW OF 2005/2006 SRAC BUDGET ALLOCATIONS

MEC BARBARA CREECY: 2005/2006 BUDGET SPEECH

PROGRAMME AND SUB-PROGRAMMES TOTAL IN 000’s

PR1: ADMINISTRATION 55 191

* Office of the MEC 2 861
* Corporate Support Services 52 330

PR2: CULTURAL AFFAIRS 30 508

* Cultural Affairs Management 2 145
* Arts and Culture 20 741
* Museums and Heritage Resource Services 6 122
* Language Services 1 500

PR3: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SERVICES 17 534

* Library Management 633
* Library Services 16 901
* Archives 0

PR4: SPORT & RECREATION 44 827

* Sport & Recreation Management 2 145
* Sport 32 753
* Recreation 8 929
* School Sport 1 000

TOTAL FOR THE DEPARTMENT 148 060

Honourable Premier
Honourable Speaker
Members of the sports, arts, culture and library communities present today
Comrades and colleagues of the Legislature and Provincial and Local Government

Introduction

I am honoured to share this day with yourselves, as we present our Second Budget for the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. It is with deep satisfaction that we, in this year of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, can look back and observe the democratic and human rights gains we have made since its adoption in 1954. It has also been a particularly successful year for South Africa in the cultural and sporting arenas.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo won their second Grammy Award; our operatic film “U-Carmen e-Kayelitsha” is internationally acclaimed, as is the All-South African film production of “Yesterday”.

In the sports arena, our heroes won gold at the Olympics and other international sporting events. In swimming, Thabang Ramoetsane from Soweto, whom we are proud to claim as a former participant in our provincial academy programme, made history by competing in the Commonwealth Youth Games and winning two silver medals in the 100m and 200m sprint events. In the process he also qualified to represent our Country at the 2008 Olympics.

Recently, our young under-19’s Rugby National Team won the Rugby World Cup, and our under-17 soccer team reached the semi-finals of the 6th African National U/17 Championships. Our artists and sports people have indeed made us proud to be South African.

It has also been a year when we have had to say farewell to some of the icons of our sector.

Brenda Fassie, Gibson Kente and Sello F Duiker, to name but a few.

Provincial and National Strategic Priorities

It is important at the start of this speech to remember the five strategic priorities which Premier Mbhazima Shilowa gave our provincial government for this five year term. On that day he said that as a Province, we should:

* Stimulate faster economic growth and drastically reduce unemployment;
* Fight poverty and build secure and sustainable communities;
* Develop healthy, appropriately skilled and productive people;
* Deepen democracy and nation building and realize the constitutional rights of all the people; and
* Build an effective and caring government.

President Thabo Mbeki, in his State of the Nation Address in February 2005, inter alia referred to the following national strategic objectives:

* The further entrenchment of democracy in our country;
* Eradicating poverty and underdevelopment, within the context of a thriving and growing First Economy and the successful transformation of the Second Economy;
* Opening the vistas towards the spiritual and material fulfilment of each and every South African;
* Securing the safety and security of all our people;
* Building a strong and efficient democratic state that truly serves the interests of the people; and,
* Contributing to the victory of the African Renaissance and the achievement of the goal of a better life for the peoples of Africa and the rest of the world.

Departmental Strategic Priorities

Over the past year we have held a range of meetings with representatives of the sports, arts, culture and library organisations. These meetings highlighted amongst other things:

* the significant potential this sector has to create work and fight poverty in our communities;
* the challenges that remain in enabling young people, in particular, to engage in recreational activities on a regular basis;
* the difficulties clubs, federations and arts and culture organisations have in accessing facilities;
* problems artists and cultural workers have in accessing stable livelihoods;
* the challenges faced by the library sector in making information accessible and promoting that most significant of all life skills: a culture of reading; and
* the stumbling blocks professional sport faces in trying to host competitive sporting events in our Province.

In the year that has followed, it has not been business as usual in our Department. We have grappled with how we can better support the sports, arts, culture and library and information sectors. We have had to confront head-on what it means to be an enabler and a facilitator, rather than a service provider. We have had to deepen our understanding of what government’s role is in relation to the poor and the disadvantaged, whilst at the same time seeking to build the capacity of the sports, arts and cultural sectors who, in our view, should be the primary providers of sports, arts and culture in our communities. We have formulated our strategic priorities and developed a five year strategic plan that took full cognizance of the challenges formulated by our Premier and President. Our organizational structure and budget allocations have also been re-aligned towards the strategic priorities of the Department, which are as follows:

* Promoting Gauteng as a Home of Competitive Sports and Artistic Events;
* Building of Mass Participation in sports, arts and culture;
* Developing talent and sustainable livelihoods for sports people artists and crafters;
* Promoting Nation-Building and deepening democracy;
* Supporting the hosting of FIFA’s 2010 Soccer World Cup.

From these strategic priorities, the Department has developed specific programmes, events and interventions that will make a significant contribution to the eradication of the social evils and divisions that are still prevalent in our society, thus contributing towards improving the quality of life of our people and knitting a stronger social fabric.

Gauteng as a Home of Competitive Sporting Events

Our Premier indicated that developing and promoting tourism is one of the six Gauteng growth sectors that need specific interventions. In this regard, hosting competitive sporting and high profile artistic events can play an important part in our struggle to create work and fight poverty. Recent research commissioned by the Department into the economics of bidding and hosting competitive sporting events indicates that for every rand spent on the event there are direct, indirect and induced economic benefits. Simply put, events increase the amount of disposable income in our province, which in turn has positive economic benefits for all those associated with the event, from the informal trading sector to the hotel industry; the media, those who manufacture and sell sportswear; coaches; referees; and the professional teams themselves.

To maximize the economic growth and development opportunities associated with hosting these events, we have developed a comprehensive strategy to serve as a blue print to unite government, sports federations, promoters and sponsors in a partnership to build Gauteng as a destination for competitive sport. This strategy includes bidding for events, partnering with the organizers of existing events to increase participation rates, developing sports infrastructure in historically disadvantaged communities, as well as creating clear pathways for the development of young athletes.

In this regard, we are happy to announce that we have secured a firm commitment from Mamelodi Sundowns to use HM Pitje as its home ground. We are also happy to announce that we are negotiating a similar arrangement with Hellenic (soon to become Benoni United) at the Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton in the City of Ekurhuleni. Provincial and local government are currently costing renovations to ensure that these facilities become world class soccer facilities and legacy projects of the FIFA’s 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Besides the upgrading of soccer facilities, government is also committed to upgrading the standard of soccer played in our province. As every professional player knows, talent development and identification must begin early in life. In this regard we are happy to report to this house that, twelve days ago, we launched the Soccer Legends programme. This partnership between SAFA, the SA Masters and our Department will see former professional players and coaches running coaching clinics in historically disadvantaged communities. In addition to upgrading the level of coaching directly available to children, this programme will also train and accredit community based soccer coaches.

2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup Preparations

All evidence suggests that 2010 will have a major impact on our province. At least eighty percent of all international visitors for the event will come through Johannesburg International Airport. The spectator spend is estimated countrywide at R9.8 billion and an estimated 120 000 visitors will stay in our province. Our province will also host the FIFA headquarters for the event.

In January this year, the Premier appointed a high level committee chaired by myself, which include three other Executive Council colleagues, and representatives of the three metro councils to oversee the development of an integrated plan to implement the province’s commitments in relation to hosting FIFA’s 2010 World Cup.

A scoping study has been instituted to ensure that we respond strategically to our Legacy Infrastructure Stadia Programme. This programme will ensure that all the identified stadia will be upgraded to meet FIFA inspection criteria, and also focus on human resource development interventions, with particular reference to stadia management, groundsmen training and infrastructure management. The Department has also advertised the post of a Project Manager to coordinate this programme.

We believe Gauteng can only achieve long term benefits from the tournament if we use the opportunities it provides to develop competitive soccer both now and in the longer term. For this reason we are focusing provincial government’s stadium upgrades in historically disadvantaged communities, where possibilities exist to attract PSL and Mvela League teams to base themselves in Gauteng.

Building Cultural Industries

The Department realizes that Heritage Month provides Gauteng with a major opportunity to attract and retain tourism and its associated benefits. Already there have been a number of interventions aimed at growing the cultural offerings of the province, and securing its status as an important arts, culture and tourism destination.

(i) The Gauteng Carnival

The most significant intervention for this year is the development of an improved Gauteng Carnival during Heritage Month. Following the Carnival Summit in September last year, the Department is working together with local government to establish carnival troops in communities throughout the province. As we speak, various municipalities are preparing for their regional carnivals which will culminate in the Provincial Carnival on the 10th of September this year. We see this year’s event as the start of a three year process of building the Gauteng Carnival into a major tourism attraction in the province. The Gauteng Carnival will manifest the cultural diversity and heritage of our cosmopolitan society. Its continued existence and popularity will assist in fostering social cohesion, nation building and engender a shared patriotism, which are cornerstones for enhancing and deepening democracy in Gauteng particularly, and South Africa in general.

(ii) Housing the International African Art Collection

By September we hope to open the new facility in Museum Africa for the accommodation of the International African Art Collection Exhibition, a joint venture of the Department and the City of Johannesburg. The facility has been financed via a grant of R4.2m in the previous financial year towards the renovation of the west wing of Museum Africa. It is envisaged that the exhibition will attract major art collectors and art enthusiasts. It also goes without saying that young and developing artists will learn a lot and also begin to understand that art, in all its manifestations and value, can and do contribute to job creation and economic growth.

(iii) The Johannesburg Jazz Festival

The Department is currently working together with the City of Johannesburg and T Musicman to develop this year’s Johannesburg Jazz Festival into its biggest event yet. Innovative steps include cordoning off the Newtown Precinct for the event, and increasing the international and local music offerings over the weekend.

(iv) Kippies Jazz Venue

During April, the Department was proud to announce that the Kippies International Jazz Club has been provisionally declared a Heritage Site. This declaration was motivated both by our understanding of the international significance of this cultural venue, and our commitment to promoting the Newtown Precinct as a premier cultural tourism destination. Over the next year we will work together with the City of Johannesburg to develop and implement a sustainable business plan for the club, which will include infrastructure rehabilitation.

(v) The Gibson Kente Memorial Theatre

At the memorial service for the late Gibson Kente, we announced that this year we would begin the construction of the Gibson Kente Memorial Theatre, as part of honouring the doyen of protest theatre. Today we are happy to announce that R2 million has been allocated for this project over the next two budget years, and we have already entered into discussions with the Johannesburg Municipality in this regard. This project will form part of the establishment of the Vilakazi Precinct, which in turn, forms part of the Soweto Flagship Programme.

(vii) Museums and Heritage Sites

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, our Department, in partnership with Blue IQ and the Johannesburg Development Agency, will open the Congress of the People Exhibition in Kliptown. The museum aims to attract visitors from around the world to experience this historic event in through innovative interaction. We are currently negotiating a private public partnership to ensure that this important tourist destination will have an ongoing revenue stream to fund effective maintenance and regular development of the exhibition.

In other parts of the province, the department is piloting, in partnership with local government, the private sector and heritage societies, the establishment of ten community based heritage sites. These sites will commemorate important local events with the dual aim of promoting tourism in disadvantaged communities and assisting in the healing the scars of the past.

Amongst the areas that have been identified for such developments are Daveyton, Kathlehong, Tembisa, Soshanguve, Mamelodi, Atteridgeville and Johannesburg.

Specific sites that have already been identified are the Kagiso Apartheid Memorial and Monument and the Black Concentration Camp in Mogale City.

It is also envisaged that the building and strengthening of community based heritage management societies will be complementary to the development and management of such community heritage sites.

Developing Talent and Creating Sustainable Livelihoods

(i) Sports Academy

Our academy programme has resulted in a number of young athletes competing in national and international events over the past year. Sixty-eight athletes participated in different national and continental competitions with 35 achieving medals. A further 16 athletes participated in various international events, and two cricket players graduated to the Senior Gauteng Provincial Team. Tribute was paid at the beginning of this speech to another Gauteng academy graduate, swimmer Thabang Ramoetsane from Soweto, who won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games and also qualified to represent our country at the 2008 Olympics.

During this year the Department will consolidate its role and approach to the development of high performance athletes. The past few years have seen considerable debate both within the department and at national level on this question. In this budget year the Department will also finalise its strategy for the development of high performance athletes. Current discussions with role players in this area indicate that this strategy will be based on the following pillars:

* The prioritization of codes for government support for high performance development. This is motivated by the need to consolidate scarce resources around key priority areas namely: soccer, cricket, rugby, athletics, swimming, boxing, and netball. The codes have been chosen because they reflect a mix of popular spectator sports, current areas of high performance by Gauteng athletes, and a link to the most popular sports offered within the schooling sector.

* The development of coherent and sustainable pathways from the school sport sector, through the post school environment; to high performance training.

* Ensuring that coherent standards for the selection of high performance athletes are developed by Federations and applied in the selection of high performing athletes in all government sponsored programmes.

* Improving the synergies with the Department of Education in relation to its specialized sports schools so that these institutions form an integral part of the developmental pathways mentioned above, which also applies the uniform selection criteria.

* Strengthening partnerships with tertiary institutions, federations and professional development programmes.

(ii) The Gauteng Arts and Culture Council

The Gauteng Arts and Culture Council is the main vehicle through which the Department identifies and develops young talent. This body is currently responsible for three important areas of work namely:

* awarding of bursaries for young artists and cultural workers;
* supporting the development of emerging groups and programmes which focus on training and developing artists;
* and supporting artists in activities aimed at showcasing their work at arts and culture festivals.

The allocation of grants-in-aid to specific projects is guided by criteria such as:

* its potential to build capacity amongst the cultural industries sector;
* enhancing the ability of our arts and culture workers to create sustainable livelihoods;
* and enhancing the ability of Gauteng to become a preferred venue for national, continental and international events.

One of the key issues raised by arts and culture stakeholders last year was the delays in processing applications, and the limited amount of funds available to support artists who wanted to showcase their work. We are happy to announce that there has been a 50% increase in the amount of money made available to the Gauteng Arts and Culture Council in this budget year, the bulk of which is available for artists to attend festivals, thus providing artists the opportunity to showcase their works.

(iii) Departmental Developmental Programmes

Over the past five years a number of highly talented young artists have emerged through the Department’s Legacy programmes of Choral Music, Theatre and Jazz. Artists such as Ritchie Molefe and the Labantu Jazz Band have recording contracts with Bula Music, whilst the Bow and Arrow and the O’Jays have acquired recording contracts with Don Laka. The Ladies Art Ensemble is currently touring Europe with Letta Mbulu and Thandi Claassen. African Jazz Mood collaborated with a major Netherlands group, and is currently touring overseas. Three soloists from our Choral programme, who participated in the SA Mass Choir, were selected to perform in Germany. The Spoornet State Theatre invited our theatre groups to perform in their 52 Seasons Programme. In 2004 six theatre groups received awards from the SA National Community Theatre. The Mamelodi Traditional Dancers, after performing at the Grahamstown Festival, were requested to develop and choreograph new dance pieces. 6 crafters were invited to participate in an international exhibition in Scotland, showcasing the celebrations of 10 Years of Freedom and Democracy. Many thanks to the talent scouts who frequents our showcases.

During this year the Department will undertake a major evaluation of its developmental programmes with the aim of understanding the role they play in the development of talent and cultural industries in the province; assessing the usefulness of continuing with this approach; and forging better linkages with the developmental programmes run by the GACC.

(iv) Developing the Craft Industry

For several years, the Department has assisted crafters with skills development and marketing through regional and provincial fairs, as well as participation in international trade fairs and exhibitions. In evaluating these strategies, the Department realizes that many crafters still lack the business skills necessary to develop their enterprises and market their products to build sustainable livelihoods. To further support the craft industry, the Department is currently developing a costed business plan to establish a craft emporium in the province.

This strategy has been used by the Indian Government to successfully provide a market for crafters and has had indirect benefits of assisting crafters to improve quality, quantity and timeliness in the production of crafts. The model involves bulk buying on the part of government of specified crafts and the wholesaling of these crafts to the public. It has the benefit of improving time delays crafters experience from the sale of crafts through the consignment system. The model can allow government to set criteria to re-invest in improving the quality of their craft.

Mass Participation

(i) The Integrated Recreation Programme

The White Paper on Sport and Recreation states that Government’s role is to foster Mass Participation in Sport. This role is closely aligned to the provincial priority of building safe, secure and sustainable communities, as well as skilled and productive people. International best practice has demonstrated that communities that have access to ongoing recreational activities have lower crime rates, less substance abuse, and young people demonstrate greater leadership and life skills at school and in the economy.

Over the past three years alone, this Provincial Government has spent substantive amounts of money on building multi purpose recreational centres in historically disadvantaged communities. However effective utilization of these centres remains a challenge. A recent client survey conducted by the HSRC, on behalf of Sports and Recreation South Africa, showed that only 25% of all respondents regularly participate in any form of sport or recreational activity. (1) Figures for arts and culture are not available, but one can assume that they are even lower.

In analyzing the causes for this particularly undesirable situation, the Department found that many recreation centres do not have organized sports, arts and cultural activities freely available for disadvantaged communities, and that user fees for recreation centres remain a major stumbling block for clubs and NGOs to use these facilities for organized activities.

To respond to these challenges the Department has reorganized its mass participation programme. From 1 April this year, our officials have begun a process of moving staff and resources to twenty-two community based recreation centres across the province. Over the next four years we hope to expand this programme to fifty centres.

Once fully operational, these centres will offer an integrated recreation programme to community members on a daily basis. Whilst open to all community members, there will be a special bias towards children, youth, women and people with disabilities.

Sport and Recreation activities at the centres includes Aerobics, General Gymnastics, Fun Runs, Big Walks, Street Ball (Soccer, Handball and Basketball), 8 different Indigenous Games, the Legends Football Coaching Programme, as well as partnership programmes with various sport federations and clubs. Talent identification and development activities aimed at pre-schoolers include the Junior Dipapadi programme, which involves 96 pre-schools.

With regard to Cultural Affairs, legacy programmes which focuses on Dance, Theatre, Jazz, Craft and Choral, will be initiated at community level, and the winners will later be showcased during Heritage Month. In this financial year, a Visual/Fine Arts component and the establishment of Carnival troupes will also be introduced at each hub.

Library and Information Services will focus on entrenching a culture of reading at community level. The programmes of library use and reading development include Amabhuku Express, Born To Read, Educational Toys and Games, Information Accessing Skills workshops, Project Y, Government Information and Oral Traditional Story Telling.

As in all spheres of our work, the Department remains committed to building partnerships with Municipalities, as well as with sports, artistic and cultural organisations. In this regard we see the establishment of local branches of the major sporting codes and federations in disadvantaged communities as central to the long term sustainability of any mass participation programme in our province. We are holding ongoing meetings with these provincial federations to encourage them to base themselves and their programmes at the mass based recreation centres.

(1) HSRC Client Survey 2004: Draft report to Sport and Recreation South Africa. January 2005.

In terms of the promotion of arts and culture, we see a special role for the Community Based Arts Centres. We hope that together with them we will be able to promote the teaching of arts and culture in disadvantaged communities, and through our joint partnership in the recreation centres, we will be able to reach out to surrounding schools.

(ii) SA Games

This year Team Gauteng will compete in KwaZulu Natal in September, where we will endeavour to defend the championship won in the Eastern Cape last year. Our team will be selected through the Masakhane Games which will include 48 local; 16 sub-regional; 6 regional; and 1 provincial tournament between March and September this year. A training camp for coaches, referees, administrators and umpires and athletes will take place at the Tshwane University of Technology during July 2005.

(iii) School Sports

In his State of the Nation address in February 2005, President Thabo Mbeki quoted from the collaboration agreement between the National Ministries of Sport & Recreation and Education as follows: “The building of a non-racial, non sexist society, consistent with the goal stated in both the Freedom Charter and the Constitution of the RSA, that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in diversity, means that we must realize the goal of the transformation of our country from our racist past, while simultaneously pursuing the corollary objectives of national reconciliation and cohesion”.

This agreement is clear on terms of reference and responsibilities to both the Departments of Sport & Recreation and Education in relation to the provision and funding of sport in schools.

The framework indicates that Education will be responsible for all curriculum issues, i.e. Physical Education, Section 21 (b) of the Schools Act (Extra & Co Curricular Programmes in Public Schools) and inter-school programmes at school and district level. The Department will have a shared responsibility for all competitive sport in schools from Regional, Provincial and National levels.

This directive requires further consolidation and agreement between the two Departments. It is envisaged that the Memorandum of Understanding currently in existence between us and the Gauteng Department of Education, will serve as a basis to consolidate a clear programme of action with regard to School Sport. Already our Department has a dedicated officer responsible for this area whose first task is to consolidate our relationship with the Department of Education.

The School Sport programme serves as a nursery to sport development and sport excellence.

It has a captive audience and has huge numbers from which to identify potential talent. It also has the potential to redress the past imbalances; promote a consciousness based on democratic values; promote social transformation and cohesion; and serve as a vehicle for mass participation, racial integration and representivity. It is within this context that the programme forms part of the Department’s Mass Participation strategy.

(iv) Library and Information Services

The value and strategic importance of access to relevant and up-to-date information cannot be overemphasized. For it has been said that the Community Library is the University of the Poor. Libraries facilitate broad-based public access to information through their information resource collections, and their community-based programmes promote and foster the development of a Culture of Reading and a commitment to Lifelong Learning.

One of the key issues to be addressed in this budget year is how to improve our partnership with municipalities and thereby empowering them to deliver library and information services more effectively. In this regard we will be reviewing whether all the services province currently provides are appropriately lodged with ourselves, or whether they would not be better delivered if they were assigned to municipalities. In this regard we are working with the Department of Local Government to explore and facilitate the assignment functions to local government via the signing of Service Level Agreements. A National workshop on Library and Information Services legislation will be held in June this year, and will further inform developments in this regard. In the interim, we will continue to work in partnership with local government through our integrated recreation programme, as well as supporting the upgrading of ICT, LAN and Internet infrastructure, as well as the provision of information resources.

Youth

In February the Premier committed the Province to review the work of the Gauteng Commission for Youth Development and the Gauteng Youth Directorate and to table a Bill to provide for a statutory Gauteng Commission for Youth Development in June 2005. We are happy to report to this house that the review is complete and a Bill was referred to the Speaker of this House at the beginning of June. Simultaneously, we have completed the Gauteng Youth Development Strategy to guide the work of all Gauteng Departments in the important project of mainstreaming youth development in our province. These interventions will place us in a firmer position to ensure that government, in partnership with the youth sector, develops wide ranging and youth friendly approaches to service delivery, and as such assist Gauteng Youth to become champions of their own development.

Nation Building and Deepening Democracy

Eight years ago, a study on sport, culture and identities in South Africa made the point that, whilst our sporting and cultural achievements brought about feelings of national identification and unification, the conception of what South Africa is and should be, is still being negotiated through our lived experiences and diverse public discourses. Whilst the Department understands all its work in the context of an overall project to promote nation building and deepen democracy, our work in relation to organizing and hosting national days has particular significance. Over the past year we have attempted to increase also the outreach of the national days within communities that have traditionally supported these celebrations, and consciously reached out to minority communities and facilitated their participation in these events. We are happy to report to this house today that we believe that we are succeeding in both these objectives.

A more difficult challenge relates to more effectively utilizing the sports, arts and culture components of the national days to reflect both our diverse cultures and some of the central values and ethics which our young democracy seeks to imbue in its citizens. An even greater challenge is to find ways of involving our communities as active participants in the programmes of the days. In this regard, the youth month calendar tends to be the most participatory, with young people involved in a range of activities including the Youth Dialogues, which are currently being hosted at regional and provincial level. In the course of this year the Department will evaluate its work in relation to hosting the national days and find new ways to address these important challenges.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all our diverse stakeholders and partners for the successes that the Department achieved during the past financial year. In particular, I would like to thank my Premier for his visionary and inspiring leadership; Cde Pule Malefane and the Standing Committee of Sports Recreation, Arts and Culture for its oversight and guiding role; and for the ongoing collaboration and cooperation we enjoy with all other GPG Departments and local government. We appreciate your support because we all know that it is only through partnerships and reliable inter-dependence that we can meet the challenges we have been tasked with.

In conclusion, I have to pay tribute to the sustained efforts of each and every official of SRAC, led by our Senior Management Team and our new Head of Department, Ms Maggie Modipa.

You have succeeded in repositioning us to face the challenges hosting the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup will bring. Many complexities and hurdles still lie ahead, but I have no doubt that together, we will deliver on our mandate.

I thank you

Issued by: Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Gauteng Provincial Government
6 June 2005