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By Steuart Pennington
Writing for the Mail and Guardian Luke Feltham writes, “there is a glimmer of hope at the end of a long sports transformation tunnel. This was the message delivered at the release of the 2016/17 transformation status report in Hatfield, Pretoria on Monday morning.
Rugby, hockey and tennis were among the codes which received poor ratings while there were signs of improvement for cricket.”
Sports Minister Tokozile Xasa in opening the release said “efforts have, for 23 years, been largely successful in bringing about an effectively transformed sport system and causing substantial consequential damage for many in the process”.
The report was compiled by the Eminent Persons Group on Transformation in Sport (EPG). The commission is responsible for collecting data from the various federations in the country and subsequently providing recommendations going forward. The report was based largely on data from 2016.
In her address, Xasa made it clear that a potential funding cut awaits any federation which does not comply with the government’s vision for transformation. The report, however, did not suggest any federation should face that fate just yet. What it did do was highlight the long battles to transform, which await many federations.
Conversely, SA Rugby welcomed its successful achievement of its targets in this report.
Rugby showed a 17 percent improvement to achieve 60 percent...
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Daniel Kahneman
Yesterday’s reaction by pundits to an astonishing surge in South African consumer confidence got me hauling out a well-thumbed copy of Daniel Kahneman’s marvellous book “Thinking, fast and slow.” And sure enough, there lay the answer.
In 36 years of polling, never before has the Bureau for Economic Research’s consumer confidence index risen so fast as during the first three months of 2018. And never in its long history has it hit as high a level...
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MEET THE 2018 INTEGRITY IDOLS SA FINALISTS!
The finalists in South Africa’s first Integrity Idol initiative have been announced.
They are a doctor, a police captain, a nurse, two EMS responders, and an educator, drawn from across the country.
South Africans were asked to nominate those civil servants working in the healthcare, education, and safety and security sectors, and whose work ethic was to do the right thing even when no one is watching.
Teachers, doctors, nurses, community care workers, social workers, policemen and -women, and more were all eligible for the first edition of this programme, which aims to generate debate around the idea of integrity...
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THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT
TV is king:
According to PAMS 2017, 75% of South African adults watch television every day of the week while only 8% indicated that they do not watch television at all during an average week. 54% listen to the radio every day of the week while 14% indicated that they do not listen to the radio at all during an average week.
Source: Eighty20
