We’re familiar with the gender pay gap but there’s an information gap on the internet too
Even though the department isn’t implementing a national team quota system, the trade union is going ahead with its court challenge
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says money does not define success at the Olympic Games, but rather a spirit of determination and drive.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says he has to deal with too much "greediness" in sport, to the detriment of transformation and development.
Reports have surfaced that reveal that Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula and his deputy fly more than their international relations counterparts.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has told Parliament that the country is grappling with the same issues raised at the 2008 national sports indaba.
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/ 8 November 2011
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has denied a <i>New Age</i> report where he accused state security operatives of a smear campaign against him.
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/ 27 October 2011
South Africa’s sports ministry has roped in concerned parties around the country to help resolve transformation issues.
Sport ministry staff deny trashing a luxury hotel suite booked in the name of President Jacob Zuma at the sports awards ceremony at Sun City.
The sports ministry says it will not ask the government to pursue any further bids to host the 2020 Olympics.
A transformation charter which will apply to all sports organisations is being drawn up, Fikile Mbalula said on Wednesday.
South Africa’s sports administrators must take responsibility for a lack of transformation, Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula said.
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/ 4 February 2009
The president must launch an urgent inquiry into alleged corruption within the Correctional Services Department, said the IFP on Wednesday.
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/ 26 January 2009
South Africa’s most popular sports are on a warpath with the Department of Sport and Recreation over new legislation that was sent out in December.
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/ 9 September 2008
Demystifying science and technology for SA’s youth through sport and recreation is the objective of a Science and Technology in Sport conference.
The ID has slammed the ”completely unnecessary wastage” of R11-million on a failed publicity project to showcase South Africa at the Beijing Olympics.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has dissolved the executive committee of Basketball South Africa (BSA) and appointed an interim committee. This follows allegations that Vusi Mgobhozi and Eric Nkosi — who were respectively president and treasurer of BSA until Sascoc’s move — are guilty of financial mismanagement.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee will this weekend probe allegations of financial mismanagement at Basketball South Africa (BSA). The probe follows complaints by Gauteng basketball officials, who have accused the national federation’s president, Vusi Mgobhozi, and treasurer Eric Nkosi of turning BSA into their personal bank account.
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/ 20 February 2008
The Soccer City Stadium is 50% complete and will be finished in May next year, five months ahead of the Fifa deadline, Gauteng Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation minister Barbara Creecy said on Wednesday. An independent state of readiness audit had shown that the province was ”firmly on track” to meet its commitments for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.