Only 32 percent of National Sporting Associations (NSAs) in Zimbabwe comply with SRC standards

ONLY 22 out of 67 National Sporting Associations (NSAs) in the country are in full compliance with the set standards of the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC), with the same number said to be in zero compliance.
They are 23 partially compliant NSAs, according to the SRC director-general Eltah Nengomasha in her response to inquiries from Zimpapers Sports Hub.
“We recently tightened compliance to include compliance with current year
Previously compliance was in response of two prior years from the current year and this resulted in many NSA falling into the partially complaint category,” said Nengomasha.
She said in terms of the Sports and Recreation Commission Act (Chapter 25:15), all NSAs have an obligation to submit statutory and administrative returns to the SRC at the end of their financial year.
“Under the statutory returns, there is a report on the NSAs activities for the year just ended an audited balance sheet and income and expenditure account for that year, estimates of income and expenditure for the coming year, annual membership submitted and annual levy paid for the year just ended,” she said.
For the administrative retums, the supreme sports body’s director-general said the NSAs must submit Annual General Meeting Minutes for the year just ended, annual calendar of activities for the coming year and annual operator’s License renewed.
“The SRC convened a meeting with the zero compliance NSAs to address their challenges, some NSA’s have been forthcoming and are working with the compliance department to rationalise their compliance. Issues of compliance are key and paramount if the sector is going to operate in a transparent manner with sound governance practices,” said Nengomasha.