The department of Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has commended Cricket South Africa\u2019s Interim Board and Member\u2019s Council on their historic agreement to transform cricket.<\/p>\n
The Minister said this when he tabled the department\u2019s Budget Vote to the mini plenary of the National Assembly on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201c<\/strong>The Department continues to work with all key stakeholders in ensuring that proper, efficient and effective governance structures are the cornerstone of all sport bodies, including the confederation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe commend the Cricket South Africa interim Board and Member\u2019s Council on their historic milestone agreement to transform Cricket, thus ensuring good corporate governance.<\/p>\n \u201cThis needs to be supported by all patriots who want to see a new and clean start to the game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n His remarks comes after a protracted stand-off with Cricket SA over their refusal to transform, which led to his decision to deregister and defund the federation \u2013 a decision he later withdrew.<\/p>\n \u201cWe note descending voices but we are not deterred or shaken by their misgivings.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we have been dealing with in the past six months in particular is, on the one hand, conservative thinking that seeks the status quo and on the other hand, progressive transformative voices. Our choice is clear: transformation is sacrosanct. Transformation is our agenda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Tokyo 2020: department to support top 10 teams, athletes<\/strong><\/p>\n Mthethwa said, meanwhile, that the department will provide support to the South African Sport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) through a focused approach to ensure maximum return on investment. <\/p>\n \u201cTo this end, the support provided by the department for the preparation and delivery of the Tokyo 2020 South African Olympic and Paralympic Team is specifically earmarked for athletes and teams ranked top ten in the World and those with a proven track record of medaling at major international events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said that the department is also collaborating with the National Lotteries Commission in an effort to ensure better coordination of support provided towards Team South Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cThe contribution made by the National Lotteries Commission and other corporate partners needs to be commended,\u201d he said. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The department of Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has commended Cricket South Africa\u2019s Interim Board and Member\u2019s Council on their historic agreement to transform cricket. The Minister said this when he tabled the department\u2019s Budget Vote to the mini plenary of the National Assembly on Thursday. \u201cThe Department continues to work with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-188887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}