STATUS REPORT MARCH/APRIL 2018 2018 is on the roll and many programs, events and AGM s are at the order of the day. EDEN was the recipient of over the R2m for sport development for the 2018/19 year of which the sport community of the Eden district is proud of. The organising of the BTG that will be hosted in George this year, the 2018 Farm Workers Sport Day schedule for 12 May in Worcester and the EDENSC Sport Awards, are main projects on the Eden sport calendar. The EXCO is also steadily implementing the decisions taken at their strategic planning workshop early in January 2018. The EDENSC however remain true to its vision to serve their members in the best possible way irrespective of the financial outcome of the funding grants received. AMINISTRATION The R101 500 grant from DCAS that is now ring fenched for administration, S & T and Projects is not sufficient to service the 51 federations and 7 municipal sport councils and subsequent other methods of funding need to be investigated. This will, like last year, worked in detrimentally on the service delivery especially in the field of capacity building and commission activities. In order to streamline the operations of the EDENSC, bi-lateral meetings were held with all the commissions and the restructuring of the commissions are now a priority as the success of the EDENSC relies heavily on the work done by the commissions. MEMBERSHIP The affiliation of EDENSC is at present 51 DSF S and 7 LSC s affiliations. The target is to at least affiliate 3 more federations in 2018. At present EDENSC is proud to report that 42 of the 51 federations are now functioning under the EDEN name! MEETINGS The following scheduled EDENSC EXCO & MANCO and relevant meetings took place in this period: 5 March - EDENSC Coaches Commission, George 7 March - EDENSC MANCO meeting, Oudtshoorn 15 March - EDEN Sport Academy Stakeholders Meeting, Oudtshoorn 27 March - EDENSC Women Sport Commission Meeting, George 28 March - EDENSC MANCO meeting, Financial meeting, Oudtshoorn 5 April - EDENSC Commission Bi-laterals, George 12 April - EDEN Sport Academy Review Sessions, Oudtshoorn 17 April - DCAS/EDEN Cheque Handover Ceremony, Riversdale 23 April - EDENSC MANCO meeting, Oudtshoorn ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS/FUNCTIONS ATTENDED 12 March - EDEN Bowls Inter District Opening, Oudtshoorn 13 March - EDEN School Sport AGM, Pacaltsdorp 13 March - SWD Rugby Legends, Pacaltsdorp 15 March - EDEN Badminton AGM, Oudtshoorn 21 March - OUDTSHOORN Municipal Sport Council Indaba, Oudtshoorn 24 March - EDEN Hunting Rifle Awards, Waboomskraal, George 25 March - EDEN MPA Clinic, Oudtshoorn 7 April - EDEN Aquatics Level 2 Gala Opening, Oudtshoorn 1
9 April - EDEN Shooting meeting, George 14 April - EDEN Jukskei AGM, Hartenbos 15 April - EDEN Sailing [KYC], End of Season Ceremony, Knysna 16 April - EDEN Racing Pigeons meeting, Oudtshoorn 19 April - HESSEQUA Sport Council Sport Day, Riverdale 20 April - SWD Cricket Awards, Oudtshoorn 21 April - EDEN Racing Pigeons AGM, George EVENTS 1 EDENSC COMMISSION BI-LATERALS - 5 April 2018, George In order to improve the operationality of the EDENSC, the MANCO scheduled bi-laterals meetings with all 10 commissions and the outcome was pleasing in the fact that each commission could table their challenges and successes. The bottom line again was funding to fulfil their mandate. Regular reports on a template will be submitted and each commission is expected to at least host one major project per year. Bi-laterals will be scheduled on a regular base. 2 SWD CRICKET ANNUAL AWARDS 20 April 2018, Oudtshoorn De Opstal near Schoemanshoek was the venue of the SWD Cricket Annual Awards Function 2018 and true to the standard of CSWD this events was no different. Union Stars Cricket Club was the "star" of the night walking away with most of the awards on offer. The SWD team was awarded the Team of the Season Award and Knysna CC the promotion award. Jean du Plessis left his legacy by presenting his #10 SA cricket shirt to CSWD. Johan Weyers of Cricket SA delivered the keynote and the core of his message was that even be overlooked for SWD teams at school level, persistent passion lead to be recognised later. EDENSC was represented by Desmond Speelman and Dave van der Walt. EDENSC is proud of a federation of the calibre of Cricket SWD. 3 INTER DISTRICT BOWLS TOURNAMENT, EDEN 12 April 2018, Oudtshoorn & George The Oudtshoorn Municipality in the person of their executive mayor, Colan Sylvestor, welcomed all the bowls players from all over the country to the SA Inter Districts Bowling Tournament hosted by Eden Bowls in Oudtshoorn [Ladies] and Men [George]. Present were Trevor Davis, kallie Haupt and Rob Forbes [President] from SA Bowls, Julia Le Roux-Krowitz [Speaker], Gertjie Bekker [ODN Bowls President] and Dave van der Walt [EDENSC]. More than 40 teams participated. 2
4 HESSEQUA SPORT COUNCIL SPORT DAY 31 March 2018, Riversdale Hierdie Sportfees was n eerste vir Hessequa en is aangebied deur die Hessequa Sportraad in samewerking met die Hessequa Munisipaliteit. Die sportfees was voorheen bekend as die Hessequa Cup waar net rugby gespeel was, maar daar was vroeg besluit om dit te verander en meer sportsoorte te betrek om sodoende meer as net een sportsoort te ontwikkel. Die Sportfees poog eerstens om aan kleiner sport kodes blootstelling te bied en ook om hierdie kodes finansieel te ondersteun. Die volgende Sport kodes was betrokke by die toernooi nl: Domino s, Krieket, Sewes Rugby, Netbal, Tafeltennis en Veerpyltjies. Hessequa se munisipale sportraad stel werklik n voorbeeld aan alle ander MSR e! 5 COMMONWEALTH GAME 4 to 15 April 2018, Gold Coast, Australia EDENSC is very proud on the sport persons from the Eden district who represented South Africa at the Commonwealth Games in Australia. From the Bowls it was Elma Davis [George] and who came back with a silver and bronze medal, Para-bowler Chris Paton [Knysna] and also Dyan Buis [Riversdale] who can smile with his silver as well! Congratulations! 3
6 SWD RUGBY LEGENDES FUNKSIE, 21 April 2018, Mosselbaai In n poging om oud-rugbyspelers, veral uit die SARU en SACOS-geledere, het n groep oud-spelers en administrateurs bymekaargekom om dit n werklikheid te maak. Onder voorsitterskap van Keith Fortuin en gedryf deur oud-swd Rugby president Joey Daniels en met die ondersteuning van EDENSR is dit besig om rigting aan te neem. Die doel is om oud-spelers & beamptes te vereer en herdenk en hulle nalatenskap te bewaar. Hulpverlening is belangrik aangesien baie oud-spelers in armoede en siekte leef morele plig vir hulp en opbeuring deur sosiale aktiwiteite is nodig. Hulle beplan om n trustfonds vir daardie doel te stig. Hulle wil ook optreë as mentors vir klubs & skole in afrigting en administrasie en geleenthede skep vir benadeelde spelers. Op 21 April 2018 is die eerste funksie op Mosselbaai aangebied waar van die legendes vereer is en n sertifikaat oorhandig is.legendes soos Willem en Lance Pietersen nou in rolstoele, was deel van die plegtighede. Desmond Speelman het die EDENSR daar verteenwoordig. 7 EDEN SAILING: KYC END OF SEASON CEREMONY 15 April 2018, Knysna On Sunday 15 April the Knysna Yacht Club hosted their end of the season ceremony on the Knysna Lagoon. A fleet of more than 30 boats formed part of the bypass salute of the commodore Allan Waterston. Afterwards the prize-giving was conducted where the mayor of Knysna, Eloanor Bouw- Spies, did the handovers. Dave van der Walt represented EDENSC at the ceremonies. 8 DCAS CHEQUE HANDOVER CEREMONY 17 April 2018, Riversdale R2 095 000 FOR EDEN SPORT! At the Eden Cheque Handover of DCAS funding for sport this afternoon in Riversdale, the WC MEC for Cultural Affairs & Sport, Anroux Marais, presented a cheque of R2 095 000 to 36 Eden Sport Federations to fund administration, transformation, capacity building, development and major events. This is the biggest contribution ever by DCAS for sport development in Eden. The EDENSC received a wonderful accolade for being the leading District Sport Council in the WC. They were congratulated for their 98% compliancy, the 100% attendance at the tri-laterals and the Cheque Handover ceremony, 4
Eden Sport Academy being the pacesetter in WC and a well organised Eden school sport structure. The Hessequa Municipality hosted this CHO event. Tribute was also paid to the outgoing secretary of EDENSC, Dave van der Walt. The DCAS (Eden) organised this event on the high standard that is known by all! 9 EDEN HUNTING RIFLE COMPETITION - 24 March 2018, Waboomskraal, George The EHRF hosted an inter district competition on 24 March 2018 where 139 competitors from Eden, Cape Winelands, EP, North West Province, Cape Town and Freestate competed for R140 000 worth of prizes sponsored by Kloppers from George. The SA Hunting Rifle Federations President, Jimmy Farnham, praised the Eden Sport Council for the the manner in which they manage and support sport in Eden also their support of the EHRF. The Eden Junior and Ladies Teams won their sections while the men s team won the silver medal. EDENSC is proud on the manner the competition was organised. 10 SA AQUATICS LEVEL 2 GALA 7 April 2018, Oudtshoorn The Eden Aquatics is hosting the SA LEVEL 2 Swimming competition in Oudtshoorn starting on Saturday 7 April until Monday 9 April. 377 swimmers from 46 clubs as far as Namibia are competing. The Executive mayor of Oudtshoorn, Colan Sylvester, officially opened the gala. Present also were Dave van der Walt and Christel Johannes of the EDENSC, Jean Neethling of DCAS and Lluwellyn Coetzee of Eden Aquatics. EDENSC wish all swimmers a wonderful 3 days in Eden! 5
11 EDEN SPORT FOR DISABLED MEDALLED AT NATIONALS -2018 Team WC SAPD performed excellent at the latest National Championships and were crowned: Overall winning region Goal Ball winning team CP Football winning team Athletic winning team Para-cyling winning team. As part of the WC Team the 14 Eden athletes won 25 gold, 7 silver and 1 bronze. In the process they bettered 7 SA records! EDENSC would like to congratulate all the athletes as well as their coaches! Well done! 12 SWD BIATHLON PERFORMS AT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 31 March 2018, Pretoria Drie goud, twee silwer en een brons, 4de in die Junior kompetisie, 6de in die Spankompetisie, HS Outeniqua die SA Hoërskole kampioene, LS Knysna 4de in die laerskole kompetisie - wat meer kan ons verwag! Die 43ste Warehouse SA Kampioenskappe in Pretoria is iets van die verlede en met 'n nuwe naam - Eden Tweekamp, 'n nuwe voorsitter in Stephnie McKay, die toekenning van die SA Kampioenskappe vir 2020 aan Oudtshoorn, lê daar 'n uitdagende en opwindende tyd voor vir Eden Tweekamp! 6
GOOD STORIES JUDO A small farm school between Oudtshoorn and George, near Herold, really perform beyond their means but not beyond their talent! With the help of sponsorship from the National Lottery Commission, 24 Judoka from Eden took part in a Cape Town Open tournament on Saturday 14 April. The team was accompanied by coach Lilian Steyn and managers and assistant coach, Jaqueline Boesak and Francois Plaatjies. Competition was tough as judoka are all in the process of qualifying for the South African Open during the July holiday. As usual, the judoka from Jisei Judo Club, Mossel Bay Judo Club, Herold Judo Club and Eden Development Judo Club did not disappoint their supporters. The results are as follows: Gold medals to: Rosie Leen, Antonio Hudzenberg, Enslin Hartzenberg, Bradwon Boesak, Duwayne Saptouw, Otto van Eeden. Silver medals to: Mishayla Plaatjies, Aluncedo Magontolo, Jeandre Buys, Vian Gerber (as well as a bronze medal), Raymondo Matroos, Raniell Matiwane, Breyton Botha and Deacon Witbooi. Bronze medals to: Nakita Boesak, Muneebah Ruiters, Raydon Ruiters, Delcon Hendriks, 2 bronze medals to Ricardi Matthee, Steven Steyn and Jadrian Matroos. TUG-O-WAR During the EDEN Tug-o-War Championship held at the Oudtshoorn School of Skills, the team from Calitzdorp High School performed so good that they also qualified to represent Eden at the national championship in Kimberley. They however had to withdraw immediately as a result of the cost and having no funds. The parents of the victorious Oakdale Agricultural School from Riversdale immediately launch a campaign there and then to raises funding for Calitzdorp HS. Before the end of the competition enough money was raised to make it possible for Calitzdorp to go to the nationals in Kimberley! What a gesture! Thanks to Oakdale and parents your generosity is highly appreciated! 7
FACILITIES WORTH MILLIONS FOR EDEN Investment of more than R33 253 000 is presently underway in the Eden district that is excluding the new tartan athletic track being announced to be built at the Rosemore Stadium in George! MAJOR UPCOMING EVENTS/MEETINGS THIS TERM BTG Meeting 4 May 2018, George WCPSC EXCO Meeting 5 May 2018, Cape Town WC Farm Workers Sport Day 12 May 2018, Worcester EDENSC EXCO Meeting 14 May 2018, Oudtshoorn EDENSC Bi-lateral meetings 15 May 2018, George WCPSC Strategic Plan Meeting 18 May 2018, Cape Town Eden Sport Federation/School Sport Code Meeting 21 May 2018, George Melkhoutsfontein Child Protection Week 28 May 1 June, Melkhoutsfontein, Still Bay EDENSC AGM 7June 2018, George Thank you Dave van der Walt Secretary Desmond Speelman Chairperson 8