The Department of Sport and Recreation

Mandate

The Programmes of the Department of Sport and Recreation are giving life to latent and dormant talent and enthusiasm for sport and recreation. The Department has achieved outstanding success through the implementation of innovative programmes as it strives to take sport and recreation to the masses of people and re-establish it through the length and breadth of the Province.

As provincial custodians of sport and recreation, the Department is tasked with the responsibility of providing access to sport and recreation to all the people of KwaZulu-Natal. In this stead, strategic partnerships with stakeholders such as sport federations, sponsors, government departments and the municipalities have made it possible to take sport and recreation to community in KZN.

Provision of innovative programmes, coupled with investment in disadvantaged athletes from the poorest communities in the main, has allowed our province the opportunity to display their talents at provincial, national and international levels.

Strategic Alignment

The programmes are aligned to the policy pronouncements as contained in Government's Programme of Action, Millennium Development Goals, Medium Term Strategic Framework and the Provincial Priorities. Sport and Recreation has a responsibility to promote national identity and social cohesion, and participation and achievement in sport and recreation will unite us as a Province and ensure that we improve on our performances.