There is hardly any buzz around it but schoolchildren in Lethlabile and Edendale have something to jump up and down about after sports minister Nathi Mthethwa announced the inaugural Fifa-Caf Pan-African schools football championship in SA will start this month.
Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa says the Fifa-Caf Pan African schools football championship will in the long run benefit SA schools in township and rural areas. Patrice Motsepe donated R144.5m to the initiative through his Motsepe Foundation.
Promoting football in schools is one Caf’s goals under Motsepe’s leadership and the South African billionaire businessman put his money where his mouth is a month later in May when his Motsepe Foundation donated $10m for the establishment of the inaugural Fifa-Caf pan-African School Football Championship.
Mthethwa did not provide details, as he mumbled the news of the initiative during his response to a committee member who reminded the minister that school sports is at its lowest ebb and little is being down about it.“All the schools will be there competing and the competition is starting later this month [February],” Mthethwa said during a virtual sitting of the portfolio committee on sports, arts and culture.
“On this schools programme 40% of the conditional grant is allocated to school sports for the provision of equipment and creating capacity and so on.”
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