The government's poor funding model failing SA sports federations

The outgoing Minister of Sports, Arts, and Culture, Zizi Kodwa, has been vocal about the urgent need for the government to enhance sports funding for the federations.

Sports federations in the country have previously voiced their concerns that the funding they receive from the government is less than two percent of their budgets.

Molokwane points out that federations are forced to rely more on sponsors for funding than the government.

"We are not getting not even a quarter, it's not even a quarter of what we're getting, compared to what the sponsors are giving us from the government. It's not even 2% of my annual budget, the funding from government. So, we want to challenge the government to say if you want us to bring medals in the country and if there's one thing that can unite this country, it's sport," Molokwane said.

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The government's lack of regulation in areas such as transformation is also borne out of its lack of financial support for the federations.

They also lack programmes that drive serious development work from the schools. Molokwane reveals that as federations, they receive annual grants from the government.

"I don't think I'm allowed to say but it's something that helped us in development because they give us a grant that has conditions at the end of the day. Even though they don't ask us what do we want the grant for and I think what the government should do right now is, when they give federations money, they must ask them what are you going to do the with the money and we must be accountable for that."