Member Association News: SASSU Becomes USSA
June 13th, 2008
The South African Student Sports Union (SASSU) and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) have finally reached consensus on the way forward for university sport in South Africa. SASCOC agreed that, due to the unique nature of student sport universally, that university sport should continue to exist in its current format and that the name of SASSU is changed to University Sport South Africa (USSA). USSA is henceforth recognised as the official national co-ordinating umbrella sports structure for the regulation and organisation of all university sports activities in South Africa, while SASCOC will take responsibility for the preparation and delivery of teams to all high performance multi-coded international events, i.e. FISU Universiades, FASU and CUCSA Games. USSA in association with National Federations will however still remain responsible for the preparation and delivery of teams that will participate in individual FISU World University Championship events. The selection of national university sports teams shall be in accordance with FISU Regulations as well as the USSA and SASCOC selection policies. USSA and SASCOC further established a Student Sports Commission that will serve as a link between the Executive Board of SASCOC and the National Executive Committee (NEC) of USSA. This Commission shall make representations to SASCOC, National Federations and Government Departments regarding student sport matters at tertiary education institutions in South Africa. We are also pleased to report that the current NEC of SASSU has been retained in office and that the National Secretariat of SASSU will continue to function independently under USSA and service its membership and projects as previously.
