Bravery Award Main – Lifesaving South Africa

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The LSA Bravery Awards

On 30th August, 2015, LSA Director of Lifesaving, Jurie Wessels, wrote to the Convenor of the Bravery Awards Committee, Stanford Slabbert, as follows: “On behalf of the Management Board, I wish to express our gratitude and appreciation for the important work that the Bravery Awards Committee has been doing the past number of years. In our view your activities contribute directly to a growing public awareness of the drowning prevention objective of Lifesaving South Africa. The annual bravery awards made by LSA, also presents a unique opportunity to create more public awareness and we plan to make better use of this opportunity in future. In discussion of your recent orrespondence, the MB noted that we do not have on record any bye-laws or protocols that regulate… i) the composition; ii) the criteria for awards; iii) the general functioning of the Bravery Awards Committee. In this regard we will appreciate it if you can put your committee’s existing practice and procedures in writing & in the form of a set of Draft Rules or Bye-laws & Protocols, for consideration by the Management Board. Please feel free to suggest and incorporate any proposals for improvement to the existing practice”. Since taking over from Gabie Botha as Convenor of the Bravery Awards Committee, BAC, in June, 2012, no formal documentation of the BAC could be traced. The initial document, as requested by the LSA Management Board, was presented in June, 2016. This included an expanded set of Award parameters. Several amendments have since been made, this being the latest.