Cultural Affairs and Sport

Question by: 
Hon Thomas Walters
Answered by: 
Hon Ricardo Mackenzie
Question Number: 
7
Question Body: 

With regard to support provided to sporting codes:

(a)  What sporting codes are currently receiving support from his Department and (b) what is the nature of this support?

Answer Body: 

7.(a) The department supported 124 district sport federations (various codes)  in the Western Cape in 2024/25. The process to fund sport federations for the 2025/26 year is still in process.  For federations to receive funding they all had to apply and meet the conditions as set out in the sport funding policy. In summary, the following codes were supported over the 6 districts:

  1. Athletics
  2. Aquatics (includes Swimming)
  3. Badminton
  4. Baseball
  5. Biathlon
  6. Bowls
  7. Boxing
  8. Bridge
  9. Chess
  10. Climbing
  11. Cricket
  12. Cue Sport
  13. Cycling
  14. Dance Sport
  15. Darts
  16. Deaf Sport
  17. Drum Majorettes & Cheerleading
  18. Equestrian
  19. Fancy Pigeon (Racing Pigeons)
  20. Figure Skating
  21. Fly Fishing
  22. Golf
  23. Gymnastics
  24. Hockey
  25. Hunting Rifle Shooting
  26. Ice Hockey
  27. Judo
  28. Jukskei
  29. Karate
  30. Kickboxing
  31. Klawerjas
  32. Lifesaving
  33. Light Tackle Boat Angling
  34. Modern Pentathlon
  35. Netball
  36. Open Boxing
  37. Ringball
  38. Rugby
  39. Sailing
  40. Shore Angling
  41. Shooting Sport
  42. Soccer (SAFA)
  43. Softball
  44. Sport Aerobics & Fitness
  45. Sport Association for the Disabled and Visual Impaired (Physically Disabled)
  46. Squash
  47. Surfing (Surfriders)
  48. Table Tennis
  49. Tennis
  50. Transplant Sport
  51. Triathlon
  52. Tug-of-War
  53. Volleyball
  54. Wrestling

   7.(b) Funding is transferred to federations for administration, development, capacity building, transformation and major events. We also provide equipment and attire to clubs.

Date: 
Thursday, May 29, 2025
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