‘Success of restoring sports in schools depends on resources’

Teachers’ union, National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) has welcomed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that Ministers Siviwe Gwarube for Education and Gayton McKenzie for Sports, Arts and Culture signed yesterday.

The aim of the MOU is to restore extracurricular programmes in public schools to create equal opportunities for underprivileged learners.

NAPTOSA’s Executive Director Basil Manuel says they want to see how resourcing will happen.

“And you know our public schools have always played team sports first, your soccer, rugby because the resource demand is just a little different to a tennis racket and so on. But resourcing remains important; ensuring that every school can have a sports field, irrespective of size, where children can actually participate. It is not going to be a walk in the park, and we have never thought it would be, but we have got to start somewhere.”

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