“While swimming is still viewed as an elite sport, we want to also introduce it to our communities and make it as popular as any other sporting code.”
These are the words of KwaZulu-Natal MEC for the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, Amanda Bani-Mapena when she attended the last of the two-day KZN Aquatics Junior Championship Swimming Gala.
The gala was held at Kings Park Pools.
MEC Bani-Mapena said she attended the event to give words of encouragement and to award medals to winners of various categories.
“The KZNDAC is a major sponsor of the championship. As the provincial government and as the KZNDSAC, all manner of sporting codes are close to our sports development agenda. That is why in our township and rural areas recreational spaces we need infrastructure and even at our schools. Secondly, we need a professional and technical approach to the development of swimmers,” she said.
Bani-Mapena said that through their recently relaunched School Sport programme, they will be able to tap into a wider pool of budding swimmers in the coming years to inspire the next generation of swimmers.
Bani-Mapena was accompanied by the newly-elected President of the KZN Aquatics, Claudine Ramaholi.
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