Sport and Recreation: Overview | Western Cape Government

Sport and Recreation: Overview

Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport
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Overview

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
  • School Sport
  • Recreation
  • Infrastructure and Major Events
  • Client and Scientific Support

 

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
Recreation Programmes
  • Indigenous Games
  • Farm Workers Sport
  • Modified Sport
  • Golden Games
  • Club Creation
Siyadlala Community Mass Participation Programme


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

Find and explore our sports facilities
Use our Living Atlas to see all of our facilities and find out more about each one.

 

The content on this page was last updated on 11 January 2023