Athletics High Schools National School Sport Championships Mainstream L.S.E.N
The Department of Sport Arts and Culture (DSAC) and the Department of Basic Education (DBE) have partnered in spearheading the National School Sports Championships since its inception in 2012.
The National School Sport Championships (NSSC) which is the bedrock of sport development, remains the premier event in the South Africa school sport calendar. Ministers of both Departments entered into an agreement endorsing that schools were the incubators for sport development and talent identification.
The National School Sport Championships remains the natural stimulant of the rollout of the school sport league programme where children are provided with access to participate in an organized sport programme that has a product born out of the institutional and legislative frameworks as endorsed at the 2011 Sports Indaba.
School sport operational structures were established in March 2012 at National and Provincial levels with the objective of coordinating and rolling out of the schools’ sport program.
The primary aim of the school sport programme is to ensure that each one of South Africa’s schools (i.e.) primary and high schools, are afforded an opportunity to participate in at least one sporting code.
The programme further seeks to address all the barriers of entry that are currently inhibiting broad based participation in school sport through the provision of the requisite support material, personnel, and competition opportunities.
This time around and as part of this programme, the high Schools National School Sports Championships with primary focus on Athletics will be taking place at Germiston Athletics Stadium from 02 - 05 April 2023 placing focus on the following:
Junior (ASA U/20), Youth (ASA U/18), Sub-Youth (ASA U/16), Primary Youth and L.S.E.N. = Learners with Special Educational Needs - (DEAF & MID).
Learners will also be participating in the following activities (i.e.) Long Jump, Triple Jump, High Jump, Pole Vault, Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, Hammer throw and track and field competing in 100m - 3000m, Relays and hurdles.
Members of the media are therefore invited and to RSVP kindly contact Mthuthuzeli Nqumba 066 302 5397 / mthuthuzelin@dsac.gov.za
For inquiries contact:
Zimasa Velaphi: 072 172 8925 or email: zimasav@Dsac.gov.za (Chief Director Communications & Marketing)
Mr Mickey Modisane on 082 992 0101 MickeyM@dsac.gov.za Chief Director Stakeholders Relations & Special Projects
