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THE 1OO DAYS MARK
Yesterday South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee celebrated the 100 days mark before the start of the 2012 London Olympic games. The ceremony was held at Golf Reef City which symbolise "going for gold" by team South Africa. These prestigious ceremony saw the appearance of Deputy Minister of Sport Mr Gert Oosthuizen and the first and second Vice Presidents of SASCOC Ms Hajera Kajee and Mr Les Williams, also the respective participants of team South Africa. Now there are 99 days left to the highly anticipated Olympic games.
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS COME TO THE PARTY
On the 17th of April Tuesday South African Airways(SSA) chairperson Cherly Carolus announced that the company will take all responsibilities of the transportation of the South African team to and from the London games. She stated that over her dead body will let a foreign carrier transport our National team. This agreement come after a long discussion with SASCOC and this will see the team provided with relevant flight tickets to their destinations during the tournament. These shows great commitment from local business after the sudden interest of a Chines company in the National team.
SASCOC DOING BUSINESS WITH CHINES COMPANY
There was an outburst from the country more respectively from the department of sport as they wanted to know why SASCOC went on to do business with a chines company to wear team South Africa on their participation at the 2012 London Olympics. These is because it was expected that it will stick to South African productions as it is a proudly South African team. SASCOC President Gideon came in to the organisation defence saying that the Chines company was not only dressing the team but also sponsoring it with $4 million for their departure to London, as there was no South African companies interested in sponsoring the team. If the country is not happy with the sponsorship deal then why are they not standing behind their National teams instead of complaining. The seems to be a lot of support for the South African team on their road to London will they take advantaged of this?
SACSCOC did a huge mistake by not giving local clothing manufacturers an opportunity, yes I do get the point that Chines will sponsor the London 2012 Olyumpic team with R 4 million but that does not mean they should completely forget about supporting Proudly South African Companies.
ReplyDeleteits good to see SA companies supporting SA teams in regards to global tournaments
ReplyDeleteso does mean that if SAA encounters any problems with planes no other foriegn companies will transport the team?
ReplyDeleteBeing behind them all the time will give motivation to achieve and the support they have from foreign companies is something big and the local companies sohuld learn from by supporting SA's sports.
ReplyDeleteSports is in the hearts of our people, it is intersting to see people supporting and showing love for other sporting codes in our country
ReplyDelete@lucky i think SASCOC had their reasons the tournament is just around the conner with no sponsor and clothing label the is no company that raised their hand in South Africa so take those responsibility so a Chines company offered to sponsor team S.A if they wiil wear thier sports wear
ReplyDelete@ thabang it is a good thing but our companies are not willing to get go for that global publicity
ReplyDelete@vongani i totally agree with you
ReplyDelete@ maryjoe according to what the CEO said she will make sure that they transport S.A team so if they encounter problems surely they have an alternative
ReplyDelete@ Nkhensani it is the best way to unite the nation
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