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This article discusses the budget allocations and resource considerations for the implementation of the National Sport and Recreation Plan. It highlights the decline in funding for the Department of Sport and Recreation and the efforts to secure additional funding from various sources. The article also provides details about the budget allocations and trends over the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) period.
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BUDGETVOTE 16 BUDGET 2012/2013 VOTE 20
INTRODUCTION SRSA hosted a National Sport and Recreation Indaba during November 2011.The Indaba adopted a new National Sport and Recreation Plan. Therefore the Medium Term Expenditure Framework did not take into account all the resources required to roll out the plan.The department has embarked on a costing exercise of the plan and identifying potential sources of funding. Spending over the MTEF period will continue to promote mass participation in sport and recreation. The mass participation sport development grant will develop sport at various levels by supporting school sport, club development, hubs and sport federations. Funding is aligned to be biased to school sport and rural initiatives.
RESOURCE CONSIDERATIONS Funds allocated to SRSA declined rapidly between 2008/09 and 2011/12 from R4.9billion to R820.9 million. This translated into an average annual rate of 45%. The decrease is attributed to the completion of the 2010 FIFA World Cup stadiums. Expenditure is projected to increase from R848.4 million in 2012/13 to R967.6 million in 2014/15, at an average annual rate of 5.6 per cent mainly due to the increase of municipal and office accommodation charges, transfers to sport federations and the mass participation sport development grant.
BUDGET ALLOCATIONS’ TRENDS The 2012 MTEF allocations includes amounts already in the baseline. Management effected some technical adjustment and reprioritisation in terms of the budget baseline. The department receives additional allocations over the MTEF period of R1.9 million, R4.2 million and R5.5 million for improved conditions of service within SRSA , Boxing South Africa and the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport. BSA receives also R3 million for spending on basic operational requirements.
BUDGET ALLOCATIONS’ TRENDS Further savings and Cabinet approved budget cuts of R20 million were made over the MTEF (R5.8 million in 2012/13; R5.8 million in 2013/14; and R8.3 million in 2014/15). The amount includes reduction of MPP Grant of R13,1 million over the MTEF (R4.9 million in 2012/13; R3.1 million in 2013/14; and R5.1 million in 2014/15) to the Mass Participation Sport Development conditional grant. The following slides provide some details about the budget allocation for SRSA
MTEF ALLOCATION PER PROGRAMME
GRAPHICAL OVERVIEW OF MTEF ALLOCATIONS INCLUDING TRANSFER TO PROVINCES
BUDGET ALLOCATION PER ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION INCL PROVINCES
BUDGET MTEF PER ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION EXCLUDING TRANSFERS TO PROVINCES
MASS PARTICIPATION GRANT PER PROVINCE
CONCLUSION The minister has had, and continues to have aggressive and fruitful engagements with the business sector to marshall resources from the private sector to ensure that funding towards criticla areas of delivery, namely School Sport , Community Sports Hubs and for the recognition of the achievements of Sports personalities and entities. Further engagements are planned to with Local Government to ensure co-ordination and alignment of funding and programmes for Sport and Recreation