To:Provincial Chairpersons

Information Letter 04/13

15 July 2013

To: Provincial Chairpersons National Sport Conveners National Executive

Greetings to all!

May we wish each one a wonderful third term and all the best with the preparations for the SA Open Games in September.

Please receive the following information:

1. Football Selection We thank all the provinces that participated in the Football Selection in Bloemfontein after the schools closed for the winter holidays. Congratulations to all the players that was selected into the National Shadow Team. Thank you to those provinces that already started with the eligibility process. Let us make sure we do justice to our players this time.

2. Inas Sport Committees Inas Sport Directors are instructed to form Sport Code Committees. Theuns Luus was nominated by the Inas Athletics Director to be part of the Inas Athletics Committee and specifically to assist in Africa. We hope that all of us can be proud of this nomination and allow Theuns to serve on the Inas Athletics Committee. (As per Finance Policy, any person from SASA-II that serve on an international structure have to do their own fundraising to attend international meetings)

3. IPC Swimming Championships Congratulations to our three swimmers that qualified and was nominated to be part of SA Swimming Team that will take part in the IPC Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada between 12 and 18 August. The swimmers are: Craig Groenewald GP Challis Wright GP Yvonne Smith FS Congratulations to our provinces and also to our parents.

4. Inas and World Taekwondo Federation Inas and the World Taekwondo Federation signed a MOU as part of the process to include taekwondo as one of the sport codes for Inas. The World Federation will also inform the National Federations to develop athletes with an intellectual disability. A longer term aim is inclusion of para-taekwondo on the Global Games and Paralympic Games programmes.

5. Gymnastics

Spain is promoting artistic gymnastics for athletes with an intellectual disability and invites National Gymnastic Federations to contact them if they are interested to enter athletes with intellectual disabilities in the Spain International Open Event.

6. 2015 Inas Global Games

The next Inas Global Games will take place in 2015 in Ecuador

7. Inas Program 2013/2014

DATE CODE VENUE 9 – 19 June 2013 Athletics Czech Rep 23 – 29 June 2013 Tennis Czech Rep. 14 – 25 Aug 2013 Swimming New Caledonia 19 – 28 Oct 2013 Basketball Turkey 11 – 19 Dec 2013 Table Tennis Hong Kong 11 – 15 April 2014 Cross County Poland 11 - 25 Aug 2014 Football Brazil 2015 after Cricket Cricket Australia World Cup

8. SASA-II Commissions

Thank you very much to those Provinces that assist us to be able to formalise our Commissions. There are still Commissions that are not finalised yet and we have to do so as soon as possible.

8.1 Medical and Scientific Commission

Dr. Matsontso Peter Mathebula (Head Medical)

Dr. Kirsten van Heerden (Head Scientific)

We already have two nominations for Physiotherapist at the moment. We want to finalise this Commission and ask Provinces to send nominations to Regie or Lizzie by 26 July.

8.2 Coaches Commission Theuns only received one Province Head Coach name. We give those Provinces that still have to send their names to Theuns, till 26 July. We have to finalise our Coaches Commission by 10 August.

8.3 Eligibility Commission

Theuns and Dr Kirsten are still waiting for some Provinces Eligibility Officer’s name and details.

9. Coaches Conference

The Global Coaching Conference organised by SASCOC will take place in KZN, Durban from 11 – 13 September 2013. SASCOC will pay Conference cost for 1 person per Federation but each Federation will have to pay their own transport and accommodation. We asked KZN to represent SASA-II. Shanita Lalloo will conduct a mini Coaching Conference during the SA Open Games in Pretoria. We ask all Provinces to make sure their Head Coach and or other coaches will attend this Conference.

10. School Sport Program

Lizzie, Regie and Theuns attended a meeting with SRSA on 12 June. The purpose of the meeting was to finalise the codes, athletics events and age groups for the School Sport National Championships in December 2013 in Pretoria.

10.1 The following codes and age group were granted:

Sport Code Male Female Age Manager Coach Technical Total group Officials 1 Athletics 10 10 u/17 2 2 1 25 Athletics 8 8 u/17 2 2 1 23 2 Basketball 12 12 u/16 2 2 3 31 3 Cricket 13 u/15 1 2 1 17 4 Football 17 0 u/16 1 2 2 22 5 Netball 0 12 u/16 1 2 1 16 6 Table Tennis 3 3 u/16 1 1 1 9

10.2 The following Athletics events were granted:

100 200m 400 800m 1500 SP DS JV LJ HJ m m II’s (M+F) X X X X X X X X X X Down Syndrome X X X X X X X X (M+F)

10.3 The National Code Conveners names were given to the organisers and they will be directly invited to the next meetings and served as National Code Committee Members.

10.4 SASA-II Provincial Structures will be part of their Provincial Selections organised by their Department of Sport. The Department will be responsible for all cost. It may happen that provinces that are only having a small number of schools, will not participate in clusters, districts and regions but only on provincial level. Each SASA-II structure must advise their Provincial Department.

10.5 All SASA-II teams will be provincial teams and not school teams entering for the School Sport National Championships.

10.6 The Table Tennis coaches are not enough and we did ask for one more coach. We are not sure if it will be approved.

10.7 The organisers did tell us that there may be changes depending on the outcome of the meeting that will take place on the 26 – 28 July.

11. SASA-II website

Albert is done with this exciting project. The SASA-II website is complete and you will soon be able to have a taste of it.

Albert requested some information from the Provinces through the Information Letter 03/13. Unfortunately he didn’t receive the information he requested. Can you please send Albert the following information as soon as possible?

a. Executive and Code Committee details (name, surname, M/F, contact details, e-mail address, school involved in) b. Events for 2013 – 2014 (codes, dates, venues, etc.)

The following is also needed:

 List of qualified coaches (include decent colour photo) Maybe with a short description of the person

 List of senior athletes that are perhaps on the INAS master list. Short description of the person’s achievements as well

 Complete the athlete registration form of all there senior athletes

 Additional committees for eg. eligibility, anti-doping etc.

 Updated constitution

 Minutes of perhaps executive and council meetings (especially those that they want their affiliates to know about)

 News to affiliate members

 Upcoming events for the 2013-2014 season. This has to be detailed i.e. date, venue, The events have to include entry forms as well as a picture of a matching sport code. For example if you are going to have regional futsal trials, then a picture of a futsal team must also be provided

 Good quality pictures of regional competitions. DO NOT RESIZE Please put on a CD\DVD and post to 153 Third Avenue, Grassypark, Cape Town, 7941

 Any press releases

 Any relevant links they want to put on

 Any donors that are supporting them

 Bank Account details. National & Provincial information needed here

 Codes i.e. Swimming: Entry forms of National and Provincial events

 Contacts: provinces must decide who they want to be on here. I think the chairperson, vice and secretary must at least appear here. They can decide

 National code going to internationals: I need a lot of promo material like a profile of the athletes, pictures of the team, press releases that appeared in the local media, specific details of departure and arrival etc.

Sport greetings

SASA-II Executive