The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) fully supports the efforts being made by Cricket South Africa (CSA) in their attempt to obtain further information, and to ensure that the principle established by the late President Nelson Mandela that sport is and should be free of discrimination or disadvantage in any form whatsoever, is maintained, thus enshrining the integrity of the sport.
MEDIA RELEASES
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has made a decision that Sive Speelman will not be participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Twenty high schools from the Gauteng province on Monday took delivery of much-needed sporting equipment sponsored by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) in conjunction with Procter & Gamble (P&G) South Africa at a handover event at Olympic House, Johannesburg.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) welcomed to Olympic House, Floyd Mayweather, a renowned and undefeated American boxing champion who arrived in South Africa on a tour of goodwill.
With regard to the ongoing developments in the code of athletics, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and the department of Sports and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) both recognise the role of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive member, Dr Sam Ramsamy, in dealing with the Athletics South Africa (ASA) issue as a result of its alleged administrative malpractice.
SASCOC this weekend mourned the loss of national kick-boxer Albert Wessels during a WAKO Senior World Championships event in Antalya, Turkey recently.
South Africans gathered in their numbers at Olympic House on Saturday to remember the late former President Nelson Mandela.
National Olympic governing body SASCOC joins the world in mourning the death of former South African President, statesman and global icon Nelson Mandela who passed away in Houghton, Johannesburg on Thursday 5 December,2013 at the venerable age of 95 after a period of illness.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), in collaboration with the Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture will host a Women and Girls Provincial Camp in Vanderkloof, Northern Cape from 29 November 1 December.
Please be advised that a squad of athletes and officials will be departing from OR Tambo, Johannesburg to Gemona, Italy on Friday, 22 November 2013.