Purpose:
To optimise social behaviour through sport and recreation.
Function:
- Develop school sport and recreation in the Western Cape
- Promote competitive sport in the Western Cape
- Provide operational support regarding programme execution within the regions
DCAS Sport and Recreation Implementation Structure
Chief Directorate: Sport and recreation
Directorate: Sport Development
Directorate: Sport Promotion
Implementation Arms
| SPORT DEVELOPMENT | SPORT PROMOTION |
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| - Infrastructure and Major Events
- Client and Scientific Support
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Directorate: Sport Development
Director: Sport development
Deputy Director: School Sport
Deputy Director: Recreation
| School Sport | Recreation |
School Sport Programmes
- Indigenous Games
- Farm Schools Sport
- Competition-based Sport
- High Performance-based Sport
- Career-based Sport
School Sport
Mass Participation Programme
- PS MOD/SHARP Sport Centres
- Community Sport Centres
| Recreation Programmes
- Indigenous Games
- Farm Workers Sport
- Modified Sport
- Golden Games
- Club Creation
Siyadlala Community
Mass Participation Programme
- HS MOD/SHARP Sport Centres
- Community Sport Centres
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Directorate: Sport Promotion
Director:
Sport promotion
Deputy Director: Infrastructure and Major Events
Deputy Director: Client and Scientific Support
Functions of the Directorate:
- Manage the development of sports people across the age spectrum to enhance excellence and increase global competitiveness
- Ensure effective partnership with stakeholders
- Build capacity of stakeholders to leverage international, national and other external stakeholders
- Facilitate dispute and find resolution for disputes within stakeholders
- Transform sport through specific interventions
- Ensure global competitiveness
- Ensure identification of latent talent
- Ensure the development of latent talent and deployment of such talent
- Ensure participation of sport persons in national and international events to increase their competitiveness and in so doing, increase the participation base
- Ensure the creation of an enabling environment for the successful development of talented sports persons
- Ensure the establishment of regional academies in the five District Municipalities and the Cape Town Metro
- Ensure the development, implementation and maintenance of a talent nurturing system
- Ensure equity, access and growth opportunities for marginalised groupings in sport and recreation
- Ensure support for the application of new technology within the sector
- Ensure utilisation of applied research to enhance talent development programmes
- Develop a facilities plan for the province taking into consideration the historical pass legacies
- Ensure a plan to recognise the performance of deserving sports people
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