A new committee has been elected for the Sport Confederation of Vhembe. The confederation, which represents different sporting codes, was elected on 12 November during a meeting at the Malamulele Boxing Club.
The federations include Safa Vhembe, Vhembe Boxing Association, Vhembe Netball Association, Vhembe Athletics Association and others.
During the meeting, Ms Sani Chuma from the boxing federation was elected chairperson of the district's federation, while Mr Scara Tshigomana from Makhado Municipality was elected his deputy.
The new committee had its first meeting at Ramushwana Disaster Management Centre last Wednesday. In the meeting, which was meant to map a way forward for the next four-year term of office, the committee agreed that a constitution aligned to the district's programme should be drawn up within 14 days from the day of the meeting.
The committee's secretary, Mr Hulisani Mabasa from Safa Vhembe, said they had a lot of work to do to make sure that sport was developing at ground level. "We must make sure that all federations are in total operation. We must make sure that all sporting federations can be recognized. That will be done through a federation audit, which must be completed in 28 days.
"Sport must be developed at community level and benefit all community members. We realized that people don't participate in sport because in many cases it is individualized, to an extent that it relies on individuals. If such individuals are not active, sport becomes dead," said Mabasa.
Mabasa also said they were going to encourage voluntarism, where sport veterans would help in developing sport by training the youth.