PRESIDENT'S REPORT

It gives me great pleasure to present my report to this meeting.

Why our playing membership has dwindled has been debated at various levels and much energy has also been spent on it. Various solutions have been bandied about but nothing bedded down.

My recommendation is to target individuals who maybe interested in running junior soccer and cricket as well as other codes eg darts , and bowls and table tennis ( which could include females ) that are also played competitively in Lenasia. This strategy must be in place until the end of 2005 and if no results are forthcoming than the issue must be re-visited. As a result of this strategy it will give us breathing space to assess which code of sport we should concentrate on and which not, what should we do with the excess stock etc. More importantly it will also enable us to strategise how much resources (financially and otherwise ) we should devote to Progress Grounds.

The 60* anniversary events- fun soccer day held on the 22 June 2003 as well as the function on the 6 June 2004 - went off exceptionally well and as far as the function is concerned a benchmark for future functions has been established by our Club.

School sport is receiving attention from the new Minister of Sport, Mr. M. Stofile , who said that “ We must go back to Wednesday afternoons as school sports days. But this cannot happen by chance “ . I am glad that this crucial matter is receiving attention at the highest level as the Minister is quite correct in saying that “school sport is the nursery for participants in senior competitions “ and that “school sport is a crucial lever in empowering young people towards healthy and active but disciplined lifestyles “. We have always expressed similar views over the years and in some ways feel vindicated !

Lastly my congratulations to all the players for their participation as well to all the trophy winners and a big thank you to everyone for their ‘tiny daily acts ‘ which has stood the test of time.

A B GANDABHAI 26 JUNE 2004

AZAD SWARAJ SPORTING SECRETARIAL REPORT-26 JUNE 2004

MEETINGS HELD

Last year’s AGM was held on the 28 June 2003.A further nine (10) Council meetings were also held. Attendance was fair with only one meeting cancelled due to no quorum being present.

MINUTES

They were taken on rotation by various members of the Executive as the post of Secretary remained vacant.

FINANCE

They are healthy and no fees are outstanding for the last season.The Club has been registered with the S A Revenue Services as a Public Benefit Organisation.

CLUBS

Cricket affiliated a Saturday and Sunday team each but no soccer team was affiliated for the 2004 season. The Social club was formally launched on the 8 November 2003 with a annual membership fee of R40.

60™ ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATORY FUNCTION

A well attended function was held on the 6 June 2004 with a number of speakers/entertainers enthralling the audience.Awards were made per the attached schedule and a brochure/clock and flag stand were produced in commemeration.

( A md a 5tr>AP-T T IK C K S t)

Prepared by A B Gandabhai.

1 1 1 1 1AWARDS MADE AT FUNCTION HELD ON THE 6 JUNE 2004.

Name Award

Chetan Patel Sunday cricket team-best bowler for season 2003/4Jayesh Bhana Sunday cricket team-best batsman for season 2003/4Nisharn Dullabh Sunday cricket team-joint player's player for season 2003/̂Rushil Naran Sunday cricket team-joint player's player for season 2003/̂Dasrath Patel Saturday cricket team-best bowler for season 2003/4Mukesh Patel Saturday cricket team-best batsman for season 2003/4Rajiv Patel Saturday cricket team- player's player for season 2003/4

Fof2̂S£R.NUCl£ ANis W.DV.CATI>N “TO TMcHarish Bhowan For service and dedication to the ClubJaikissan Daya For service and dedication to the ClubAmrit Nathoo For service and dedication to the ClubAsit Desai For service and dedication to the ClubManesh Naran For service and dedication to the ClubRamesh Morar For service and dedication to the ClubChandrakant Parshotam For service and dedication to the ClubAnand Daya For service and dedication to the Club

fRAnttP fro PAReginald Felman For service and dedication to sportYusuf Kara Posthumous for services rendered to sportWalter Muller Posthumous for services rendered to the ClubKanoo Kalidas Posthumous for services rendered to the ClubAshok Odhav Posthumous for services rendered to the Club and sportChhagan Bhana Posthumous for services rendered to the ClubMahesh Ooka Special award for long service and dedication to the ClubThiraj Bhowan Special award for long service and dedication to the ClubAjit Gandabhai Administrator of the year 2003

AZAD SWARAJ SPORTING CRICKET SUB-CLUB

SECRETARIAL REPORT-SEASON 2003/4

MEETINGS HELDNo meetings were held

MATCHESThe Saturday and Sunday teams fulfilled all their fixtures.

HONOURSThe Club’s Presentation of Trophies was done at the 60*̂ anniversary function held on the 6 June 2004 and were as follows-

Batsmen- J Bhana(SU2) D Patel(SA4).

Bowlers-C.Patel(SU2) M Patel (SA4) .

Player’s player-R.Naran/N.Dullabh (SU2 ) R.Patel (SA4)

FACILITIES.The pitch preparation was erratic and below standard and complaints/correspondences to City Council did not improve matters.Covers were moved to Progress and the groundsman who was paid for services rendered did a splendid job in maintaining the ground and using the covers methodically.

EQUIPMENTMechanical roller was repaired and the cost was split 50/50 with the City Council

OPPORTUNITIESCourses in umpiring, coaching and score-writing are available at GCB.

FINANCEFees were paid timeously.

JUNIOR CRICKETNo teams partook and this aspect must be given due consideration.

A.B.GANDABHAISECRETARY.26 JUNE 2004

AZAD SWARAJ SPORTING CRICKET SUB-CLUB

SATURDAY TEAM (SA4) REPORT-SEASON 2003/4

The team won 3 and lost 5 of the matches played with 6 declared drawn due to rain. Only one of the 6 matches rained off took place at Progress Grounds.

Although the team lost 5 matches they were entirely the result of poor batting instead of the opposition outplaying us. Against RAU/WITS we only managed to score 24 after bowling them out for 102 , and we were poised to beat them at the second round match when the heavens opened up.

Per the league log one can see that only 4 points separated the teams finishing 2 to 7 with 4 teams tied on 36 points each. O f the 4 we beat 3 of them in the first roimd.

So it was a mixture of poor batting and weather that caused us to finish up low on the log.

Mukesh Patel scored the highest single score of 47 and he also took the most wickets in an inning of 4 wickets and was also highest wicket taker for the season of 18 wickets. Devan Patel was the catch of the season with nine catches and a proficient wicket

keeper.Dasrath Patel was the highest run scores of 181 runs for the season but faded during the last 5 matches scoring only 51 runs.Rajiv Patel as vice captain carried out his duties diligently and was the obvious choice of player’s player.He also scored 122 runs and took 14 wickets during the season.

We already have finalized the 13 thirteen players for next season and if we can put our heads down there is no reason for us to do better the coming season.

Ajit Gandabhai Captain

^ ^ ^ ------------------- 1AZAD S W A R A J SPO RTING CLU B SEASO N 2003/4SA4 PLAY ERS STATISTIC S

RUNS

NAME B A TTED N/O UT R/BURG RAU/W ITS M P PR O TEA LE N A S IA G LE N V IS TA DELFO S DA XINA B A N K RA U/W ITS RANDBUF M P PROT LE N A S IA G LEN VIS TA DE LFO S DA XINA B A N K T O T A LAJIT GANDABHAI 5 4 2 2 0 2 1 7RAJIV PATEL 12 1 28 1 3 12 5 18 18 34 3 0 0 0 122MAHESH BHIKA 5 1 0 0 1 0 1RAMESH PATEL 9 35 1 0 1 32 20 17 36 0 142ARVIN 3 2 19 0 6 25AS IT DESAI 7 1 0 9 24 24 19 15 6 97MUKESH PATEL 10 2 47 4 4 0 32 7 0 4 0 9 107DASRATH PATEL 12 1 10 0 19 10 11 42 38 0 0 27 17 7 181UMESH PATEL 10 3 2 8 13 7 5 8 4 6 8 2 63DEVANG PATEL 9 5 43 0 8 18 40 2 25 7 148VIM AL PATEL 1 1 8 8HEMANSHU PATEL 5 9 19 4 8 10 50BHAVIK 0CRETAN 1 36 36PIYUSH 3 1 2 10 15 27G UEST PLAYERS 0 25 5 3 8 41EXTRAS 25 8 4 31 16 10 17 19 3 28 13 23 197

202 24 57 92 147 146 132 147 54 0 0 98 0 0 73 80 12521252

OPPO SITION 159/10 102/10 142/10 93/7 142/10 142/4 133/8 112/10 159/8 RAIN 101/5 RAIN RAIN RAIN 82/3W /L/D W L D L W W L W D D w/over L D D LO STPOINTS 4 0 2 0 4 4 0 4 2 2 4 0 2 2 2 0 32

NAME R/BURG RAU/W ITS M P PR O TEA LE N A S IA G LE N V IS TA DE LFO S DA XINA B A N K RAUAVITS RANDBUF M P PR O T LE N A S IA G LE N V IS TA DE LFO S DA XINA TO TA L

W IC KE TS

A JIT GANDABHAI 0RAJIV PATEL 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 14M AHESH BHIKA 1 1 2RAMESH PATEL 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 10ARVIN 0ASIT DESAI 2 2 1 1 6MUKESH PATEL 2 2 2 1 2 1 4 1 3DASRATH PATEL 1 2 1 1 1 1 r 8

12UMESH PATEL 1 3 2 2 3 1DEVANG PATEL 0VIM AL PATEL 0HEMANSHU PATEL 0BHAVIK 4 4CHETAN 1 1PIYUSH 0G UES T PLAYERS 0EXTRAS 0TO TAL 10 8 11 5 10 3 8 7 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 3 75

75

NAM E R/BURG RAU/W ITS M P PR O TEA LE N A S IA G LE N V IS TA DE LFO S DAXINA B A N K RAU/W ITS RANDBUF M P PROT LE N A S IA G LE N V IS TA DE LFO S DA XINA T O T A L

CA TC H ES

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1 1R A JIV PATEL 1 1 3M AHESH BHIKA 1 1 1 3RAMESH PATEL 2 1 1 1 1 8ARVIN 0AS IT DESAI 0MUKESH PATEL 1 1 3DASRATH PATEL 1 1 1 1 5UMESH PATEL 1 1 3 5DEVANG PATEL 1 1 2 3 1 1VIM AL PATEL 0HEMANSHU PATEL 1 1 2BHAVIK 0CRETAN 0PIYUSH 2 2G UEST PLAYERS 0EXTRAS 0TO TAL 1 51 2 3 3 6 3 7 6 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 41

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AZAD SWARAJ SPORTING CLUB

STATISTICS-SU2-SEASON 2003/4

Batting BowlingMatches Highest Total

Name Played Total Runs Avg. score Name Wkts Avg. EconomyJayesh Bhana 8 224 28.00 48 Chetan Patel 21 21.76 3.25Jitesh Ravjee 8 199 22.11 68 Hemesh Bhatt 20 10.05 2.57Rushil Naran 7 176 29.33 64* Bhavik Dhanjee 11 12.18 3.77Roshan Naran 11 171 14.25 61 Rohan Dullabh 9 10.78 3.34

Nishaan Dullabh 9 161 20.13 64 Viren Lalla 7 14.29 3.23Rohan Dullabh 3 131 43.67 73 Jayesh Bhana 7 15.29 2.97Viresh Dullabh 4 129 32.25 55 Nishaan Chibba 6 12.83 3.35Nilesh Doolabh 7 112 16.00 56* Viresh Dullabh 6 13.17 3.43Rishaan Govind 10 84 28.00 31 Sudhir Daya 3 19.00 2.59

Chetan Patel 13 78 7.09 22 Asit Desai 3 22.33 5.58Arvind Vallabh 1 63 63.00 63 Dashrath Patel 3 27.33 4.10Bhavik Dhanjee 5 56 14.00 32 Pravesh Madoo 3 36.67 2.44Nishaan Chibba 7 55 13.75 27* Mukesh Patel 2 18.00 2.40

Sudhir Daya 9 52 5.78 19 Nishaan Dullabh 1 3.00 1.50Jeshal Patel 6 52 6.50 24 Rushil N aran 1 32.00 3.56Viren Lalla 5 49 24.50 27* Jitesh Ravjee 0 - 5.33

Mukesh Patel 2 28 28.00 14* Pranesan Gouden 1 0 - 3.00Hemesh Bhatt 8 23 - 23* Richie Ganeshi 0 - 23.00Dashrath Patel 2 20 20.00 19* Nilesh Doolabh 0 - 7.00

Drushan Govind 5 18 18.00 16* Jeshal Patel 0 - 8.00Richie Ganeshi 3 13 4.33 7 Umesh Lad 0 - 5.00

Asit Desai 1 4 4.00 4Umesh Lad 1 1 1.00 1

Pravesh Madoo 4 0 - 0*Pranesan Gouden 2 0 - 0

M n Patel 1 0 - 0

SEASON 2003/4

GAUTENG CRICKET BOARD

LEAGUE LOGS

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Club P W L D T DFNDFMP BPTotalLenasia 16 8 2 4 0 0 2 48 0 48

eWk 16 6 4 6 0 0 0 36 0 36Delfos 16 7 5 4 0 0 0 36 0 36Randburg 16 6 5 4 0 0 1 36 0 36RAU / Wits Tech 16 5 4 6 0 0 1 36 0 36Daxina 16 3 4 7 1 0 1 33 0 33Azad Swarai 16 4 5 6 0 0 1 32 0 32Glen vista 16 2 5 7 1 0 1 29 0 29Marks Park Protea 16 0 7 2 0 7 0 -24 0 -24

Azad Swaraj Sporting Club

Soccer Sub Club - Report 2003

Another season has passed by and the number o f partieipants and members seem to be diminishing and to be on a rapid decline in membership. This does not bode well for soccer sub club structure. We need to review the changes within the club, and track and follow the political and social changes taking place in the country. So as to see the impact o f these changes and transformation on the club and its membership.

We need to do in-depth analysis of the highs and lows o f the soccer sub-club and the sudden decline o f the dwindling numbers participating players and members recently. I as chairmen of the sub club and the executive need to analyse the sudden change and drop, in the number of teams participating in the association in the last 2 years.

The later part of 1990s saw good growth and development of the playing standards o f the teams and management with new coaching techniques being introduced by external coaches and this augured well for soccer sub-club. The development division under 7 and under 9 meant that a good foundation was being constructed for the future of the club survival.

New managers joined the club with new ideas and this bode well for the club as the additional men power was sadly lacking in the later period of the fifty years, for instance Zanton Thomas, Privkumar Lakha and Trevor Masher.

The attached analysis might shed some light to the decline in the number o f teams participating for the club. There are two key reasons for the rapid decline in membership at club level. But statistics can be deceptive in it self, without the complete knowledge of the under currents that is concealed and excluded in the statistics. The number o f primary reasons is as follows:

1) The conflict within the parent body Lenasia Soccer Association that commenced in 1999 and has been on going until recently and has still not been resolved. This has been one of the key reasons that have led to managers and players being disillusioned. Potential managers and players have joined other clubs and association’s to give potential players with skill, a better future to develop their soccer skills and a possible career path. The crunch come when the soccer administration and management spent 3 months off season in 1999 to plan for season 2000 for registration o f players and the election o f management of the teams. At the commencement of the season 2000 the LSA administration altered the registration o f cut o f birth dates to the various division about 2 times and this led to many of the teams having only 50 percent o f the active players left. With these apparent problems, many of the managers were frustrated and decided to join alternate associations.

2) The other factors that could have changed the clubs future is the lack o f new and younger administrators taking up key positions within the sub-club structures as well as at executive level. The failure o f the more senior players taking up management and administrative position within the club has left a large vacuum within the club and this could prove fatal to the survival o f the club.

3) The tragedy that the younger generation has lost on knowledge that could have been imparted onto them from the likes o f Mr. Thiraj Bhowan, Dr. Risik Gopal, Mr. Ajit Gandabhai and Dr. Natvar Bhowan as this would have served them richly in later years.

4) The movement and relocation families to alternate residential areas have also contributed to dwindling numbers in membership.

5) The movement o f students schooling in areas outside Lenasia which caters for sporting activities. Student completing their high school career and perusing academic careers in tertiary institutes tend to spend more o f their time on studies and shift away from sports.

The season 2003 saw the club affiliating a single team in Dixina Football Association. The team performed well and occupied the league runners up position in the under 17 division. Special thanks to Jayen, Shyam and Yogesh for persevering under extremely difficult and demanding conditions.

The strength of any organization lies in the development o f its youth and in failing to do so leads to the demise o f the entire structure o f the organization. Lastly the knowledge accumulated in the last sixty years will be lost to future generation because of failure o f managers and administrators to occupy the vacant administrative position.Constructive criticism with follow up with action is a hallmark of a good and healthy organization but instead of being a passive armchair critic.

In spite o f all the draw backs I have personally benefited from this rich experience gained by working with very dynamic people in this organization and my sincere thanks to them. The last three years have been testing ones and special thanks to those who have persevered and struggled to keep soccer club alive. A special thanks to those that have served the club so gallantly Yeogesh Naran, Shyam Daya and Jayen Jiveen Daya. Lastly those who have made themselves available with time that can not be defined or a value stipulated for the services rendered Amrit Nathoo, Harish Bhowan, Anand Daya and Ravindra Lalla.

Soccer Sub Club CommitteeMahesh Ukabhai Harish Bhowan Chandrakant Parshotam

______________ ^ ^ ^ ______________A Z A D S W A R A J S P O R T IN G C L U B - A N A L Y S IS

YEAR un der 8A under 8b u n d e r1 0 A un de r1 0B u n d e r1 2 A u n d e r1 2 B u n d e r1 4 A u n d e r1 4 B under 16 N/P MemManagerLog Pos.

1992 15 16 15 16 17 15 16 26

M ana g e r

Log Pos.1993 15 15 16 15 16 16 16 13 16

M ana g e r

Log Pos.1994 15 15 15 14 14 16 15 16 16

YEAR u n d e r? un der 9 u n d e r9 A under 11 u n d e r1 1 A u n de r 13 u n d e r1 3 A un der 15 under 17 un der 19 S ilve r N/P MemManagerLog Pos.

1995 13 14 16 17 14 17 17 16

M ana g e r

Log Pos.1996 18 15 13 14 18 16 14

M ana g e r

Log Pos.1997 11 12 15 16 15 16 17

M ana g e r

Log Pos.1998 11 15 13 17 16 20 15

M anage r

Log Pos.1999 9 12 13 16 14 13 16

M a na g e r

Log Pos.2000 g 10 14 12 17

M a na g e r

Log Pos.2001 13 12 17 14

M anage r

Log Pos.2002 14 16 17

M a na g e r

Log Pos.2003 16

M anage r

Log Pos.2004

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