Sascoc, federations form task team over McKenzie's big funding cuts
Sports have been hit by budget cuts totalling about R40m this year which have seen cuts in government funding of up to 60% for codes such as athletics and swimming, while Sascoc and a few others received nothing.
Sascoc described the cuts as an 'unfolding financial crisis that will derail the upward performance trajectory of all the [South African] teams and individual athletes'.
It and the national federations held an emergency meeting last week.
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