Sports body upskilled in SDB workshop

IN a bid to improve sports development in the South Durban Basin (SDB), a two-day workshop was recently held to assist the local Prince Cyril Zulu Zone Confederation.

The workshop was the brainchild of the SDB Area Based Management (ABM) department, eThekwini Municipality sports department and the provincial sports and recreation office.

Members of the confederation were given practical skills regarding leadership, professional proposal writing and creating a strategic sports development plan for the year ahead.

“The strategy for this year is to focus on mass participation and making sure that the youth become involved in sports,” said eThekwini sports and recreation’s Jojo Dladla.

SDB ABM’s Anitha Govender added: “As local government we all have the responsibility to develop, support and promote local democracy and participation and to contribute towards building cohesiveness, vibrant and sustainable communities”.

SDB ABM area manager, Eurakha Singh thanked those involved and emphasised that it was only though positive and health-promoting programmes that government would begin to make in-roads into making a positive impact on the lives of young people.

“We have made significant strides in planning and formalising a path that we would like to follow this year in the sports arena. I thank the sports confederation members for their hard work and dedication. Because of your passion for sports we are definitely in a better position to deliver a sports programme that can be sustained and help eradicate all social ills that plague our community,” said Carl Webster, chairman of the sports confederation.