Team SA at the Olympic Games in Tokyo does not reflect the demographics of the country‚ says minister Mthethwa BraMahlatse
The South African Sport and Confederation and Olympic Committee sent a squad of 185 athletes‚ the largest contingent the country has ever sent to the Olympics‚ to participate in 17 of the 33 sporting codes in Japan.
“The team which represented SA at the Olympics is not reflective of the demographics of the country‚” said Mthethwa during his engagement with media on Thursday. “It means softball met all the transformation requirements and the rest fall in the category of conditional pass and that’s how far behind transformation is. Besides the category of those who got a conditional pass‚ there are those who performed the worst to dismal failure.”
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