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Annual Report 2019 Page 1 LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 1 PROUD SPONSORS OF LIFESAVING SA 35 Livingstone Road • Windermere, Durban, 4001 Tel:0313129251Fax:0313125612/0866159716•Email:[email protected] WWW.LIFESAVING.CO.ZA LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 2 LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA ANNUAL REPORT 2019 WWW.LIFESAVING.CO.ZA PAGE 3 LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Lifesaving South Africa is the National Authority in the effort to prevent drowning and the Our Vision promotion and delivery of Lifesaving Sport in building an active and winning lifesaving sporting nation in South Africa. Lifesaving South Africa is the National Association for Lifesaving and Lifesaving Sport in Our Mission South Africa. In these roles Lifesaving South Africa leads, supports and partners with national and international organisations committed to drowning prevention, water safety supervision, emergency response and sport. In Remembrance Lifesaving South Africa celebrates the life and acknowledges the passing of members who were part of our family. Andile Mqadi Fast Track Peter Auersperg Plett Henry Gradwell Scottburgh Harry Lambson Summerstrand Barry Jackson Pirates Newton Sisam Alpha James Whittle Durban Surf David Knoop Pirates Marijke Kostelijk AquaMartina LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 4 GOVERNMENT PARTNERS INDEX 5-6 Presidents Report Dylan Tommy 7-8 Head Office Report Helen Herbert 8 Sponsor Messages Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation SA Ryk Neethling General Tire INDUSTRY PARTNERS Ian Langlands Wimpy Jacques Cronje 9 Drowning Prevention Commission Dhaya Sewduth 10 World Conference on Drowning Prevention Dhaya Sewduth CORPORATE SPONSORS 11 Lifesaving Committee Grant Breetzke 12 LSA Committees and Sub Committees 13-14 Sport Committee Peter Odendaal 15-21 Finance Report & Annual Financial Statement Bruce Roberts AFFILIATION 22 Watersmart Deon Woodley 22 Ekhuruleni District Bridget Du Toit 23 Jozi Lifesaving Mike Gamble 23-24 Lifesaving Western Cape Mziwoxolo Mayedwa OTHER SUPPORTERS 24 Cape Town District Ed Schroeder 25 Eden District Gerald De Jager 25 North West Lifesaving Jennifer Taylor 26 Freestate Lifesaving Gert Nel 26 Lifesaving Nelson Mandela Bay Earl Ingram 27 OR Tambo District Riches Mndiyata 27-28 Lifesaving KwaZulu Natal Mike Raubenheimer 28 International Lifesaving Sport Commission Jelle Meintsma 29-31 Bravery Awards Stanford Slabbert 31-32 Annual Awards 33-34 Membership Statistics 35-36 Rescue & First Aid Statistics 37 Award Statistics 38-39 Drowning Statistics 40 Sponsor Adverts Photography: Top Photo, Action Photography & various contributors Design & Layout: Realtime Media - www.realtimemedia.co.za PAGE 5 LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PRESIDENTS REPORT Dylan Tommy - President INTRODUCTION prevention over the last year. It is fantastic to see the all the new developments and the number of clubs who are now Management I am extremely honoured and proud to present the 2019 actively running drowning prevention programmes. Board Members Lifesaving South Africa annual report. Lifesaving South Africa has once again had a very successful year and many of our LIFESAVING PATROLS strategic objective have been achieved. Our clubs continue to render a vital voluntary service to the STRATEGIC REVIEW public at various beaches and other aquatic facilities through the country. These duties continue to be performed very I would like to highlight some of the most important strategic successfully in spite of the lack of facilities and support from objectives where pleasing progress has been made: local authorities in many cases. During the past year, a total of 136 875 duty hours were completed by our members. A • We have continued to set up and maintain important total of 2176 rescues were performed during the 2018/19 Vice President strategic partnerships, season bring the total to date to 127 810. First aid was Allen Pembroke provided to 4 745. • Our list of associate members continues to grow, as we continue to receive new requests on a regular basis, As a result of our continued commitment to this noble cause, • Our talent identification programme is well on track and many families have been spared the loss of a loved one. we are seeing good growth in our talent pool, I would therefore like to extend my sincere gratitude to all our volunteer lifeguards, the club administrators who make • Our Watersmart schools drowning prevention patrols happen and to the municipalities which continue to programme continues to reach more and more make valuable contributions to our clubs and districts. communities, • We have received great news coverage both on formal LIFESAVING AWARDS Director of Sport Director of Finance Bruce Roberts media platforms, as well as social media, Peter Odendaal During this past year a total of 5 006 examinations was • Our membership is still growing steadily and we continue conducted, of which 864 were Lifeguard Awards. There were to see increases in the number of examinations also 2 623 lifeguards retested during this period, which is conducted, 101 more than the previous year. • We are about 2 months away from hosting the 2019 What is concerning is that only 17 new examiners qualified World Conference on Drowning Prevention during the past season. Six were LA examiners (of which TRANSFORMATION AND none were surf), 1 IRB examiners and 10 Nipper examiners. DEVELOPMENT A good sign is the number of surf technical officials and Director of Lifesaving Director of Drowning coaches who completed their awards during the season. A Grant Breetzke Prevention In terms of our total membership, 31% are female and 34% Dhaya Sewduth total of 57 technical officials and 30 coaches received their are black. These percentages show slight increases in both awards during the 2018/19 season. demographic areas. LSA is continuing to work on ensuring a common standard In terms of growth we have seen an increase in total for lifeguard training and certification in Southern Africa and membership from 7371 in 2018 to our current membership as a result we continue seen lifeguards from many Southern total of 7712. Although it is small increases each year, it is African countries completing our Lifeguard Award. extremely positive that we are able to attract new people into our clubs and retain existing members. To ensure our creditability as an organisation is maintained, the quality and integrity of our awards must be guaranteed at MEMBERS all times. We are continually engaging with local authorities Member Member and other employers of lifeguard to stamp out fraud. Any Louise Erasmus Marius Oosthuizen SC During this financial year LSA continued to deliver and host person who is found in possession of fake certificates or various projects and events which directly benefited our engaging in any fraudulent activity related to our awards will members, clubs, districts and/or provinces. These projects be reported to the relevant authorities. and events were made possible through funding received from the National Lottery, Sport & Recreation South Africa, I would like to thank all our instructors and examiners for General Tire South Africa and Wimpy South Africa. continuing to maintain a high standard to ensure quality lifeguards complete our training process. I would also like I would like to thank all our committee members at provincial, to thank our Director of Lifesaving, Grant Breetzke and his district and club level for their hard work in keeping things committees for all the hard work they have put into this running smoothly. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed. portfolio. Member Member Winston Meyer Warren Prins DROWNING PREVENTION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS During this financial period, we reached over 18 000 learners During this financial year we successfully held our second with our classroom based Watersmart drowning prevention combined national championships, with the surf and pool programme. I would like to thank Deon Woodley and his team championships for all age groups being held in Port Elizabeth. of facilitators for their excellent work with this programme. This event saw more than 1600 competitors from more Our Director of Drowning Prevention, Dhaya and his than 40 clubs competing in what was once again a great committee have been very busy finalising the arrangements showcase for the sport of lifesaving and LSA as a movement for WCDP 2019 which we will host in Durban later this year. Member Athletes Representative I would like to express the entire movement’s gratitude to Tracy Baird Matthew Bouman I would like to thank Dhaya, his committee, all the clubs and Craig van Rooyen and his team at Kings Beach, as well as members for all the work that has been put into drowning LIFESAVING SOUTH AFRICA - ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PAGE 6 Earl Ingram and his team at Newton Park Swimming Pool for I would also like to thank the Treble Group for their support hosting another great event. and all the hard work they put into managing the General Tire partnership. I would also like to extend huge thank you to all the Technical Officials who made this massive event possible. It was a big CONCLUSION ask, but the TOs delivered and can be proud of the way they managed the event. I would like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to all our members and office bearers throughout our LIFESAVING SPORT movement, especially the Management Board and staff for your continued support and commitment. Lastly, I would like The Lifesaving World Championships took place in to thank my wife and family for their continued support and December 2018 in Australia. This championship saw an encouragement. improved performance from our team. The senior team came third in the surf competition and 6th overall, with the junior It has been an honour and a privilege to serve this noble team finishing 5th overall. Gold medals were won by Ryle movement as president for the past 11 years. Due to work De Morny (Flags), Nicolas Notten (Ski), the junior Simulated commitments I have decided not to make myself available for Emergency Rescue Competition team and Milan Erasmus another term, but I also feel that it is time for someone else (Line throw).
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