* SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.
South Africa has a competitor at The Winter Youth Olympics currently on the go in Innsbruck. Surprised? Me too!
16 year old Sive Speelman, an ‘Alpine skier’ is participating in 4 events.
The athlete is currently there with his coach.
In addition to the coach, Sascoc have sent a 4 person support team, which includes Sascoc CEO Tubby Reddy, all flying business class (the athlete and coach flew economy) and no doubt staying in fancy hotels, using chauffeur driven vehicles and all the other essentials of an arduous ‘working trip.’
Not bad work if you can get it.
Sunday Times article here, editorial comment here and Mampara (fool) of the week award here
Boadicea's Chariot 
Disgusting, extra disgusting considering the poverty in South Africa.
High time the Olympics were cancelled.
These people never fail to disappoint. And the murder of white farmers continues.
Sigh! I’m afraid it’s the same the world over. Give any nonentity access to the public trough of anonymous, taxpayer funds and they will get their snouts in so deep they need snorkels and then get uppity when the taxpayer dares question how their money is being squandered.
OZ
“The government wants to make it illegal for anyone to issue warnings of severe weather without permission from the SA Weather Service. I kid you not. The penalty? A fine of R5-million or five years in jail.”
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/01/15/spineless-sheeple-deserve-to-be-fleeced
Hee hee, Sipu. Down in Algarve the gobmint introduced tolls on the once free and EU funded A22 motorway, the Via do Infante. Now the last thing that you do is try to dictate to an Algarvian on how to spend his money. Traffic volumes have already plummeted on the motorway in favour of the toll-free EN125, one of the most dangerous roads in Europe.
The gobmint’s problem is compounded by the fact that it decided not to have manned booths to collect the tolls, rather it installed numberplate-recognition cameras and punters are required to buy a transponder linked to ther bank accounts so that fees are directly debited from the punters’ account.
Or so they thought.
Firstly, it takes only a moment and some centimetres of black insulation tape to change your numberplate beyond recognition. Illegal, but do-able. Secondly, at night local hunters come out of the hills and use the new technology for target ptactice. Those without firearms licences pour petrol into the traps containing the fibre-optic cables the system relies on and set them alight.
The result is that the gobmint has ordered that each of the ten tollpoints will be guarded by the Plod 24/7. That’s three shifts of eight hours each by two officers and a car. 60 plod per day and thirty patrol cars for each floodlit site. And still the Algarvians come out of the darkness just far enough to take pot-shots at the hated cameras.
It can only end in tears and rightly so.
OZ
Sports administration what a job!
I often see officials from various sporting bodies being interviewed or quoted and have never heard of them, Rarely is a name familiar, I doubt if half of them ever played the game, (be it rugby, football, cricket etc.)
And, unlike the players, who usually have short careers these jobs are for life!
As I said earlier, not bad work if you can get it.