The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture says it wants to work with the Department of Basic Education to revive PE as a full school subject in South Africa.
New Sports, Arts and Culture minister Gayton McKenzie says that his department plans to switch up the transformation of sports in South Africa, which will include reassessing the approach to quotas and going back to the school level to promote physical education and activity.
“Many professional tennis players, for example, started at the age of five. The game becomes second nature to such players. To support this shift, however, the minister said that the country needs to revive Physical Education in schools as well as revive the School Sport System. “It was clear at the Indaba that there has been little to no progress in establishing sustainable school sports leagues in less privileged communities, which constitutes the vast majority of where our children are affected,” the minister said.
Proposals to make Physical Education a full subject again in South Africa have been floating around for about a decade.Before 1994, PE existed as a stand-alone school subject, but this changed in 1997 when it became a reduced learning outcome as part of a new subject—Life Orientation —as part of outcomes-based education .
The proposal is not without its challenges, particularly from a resource point of view—including a lack of facilities and apparatus, as well as inadequately qualified or unqualified teachers to present the subject.
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