WATER SPORT NEWS - Surfing history was made in Rabat, Morocco recently when the African Surfing Confederation (ASC) became a constitutional entity.

The Inaugural Meeting was hosted by the Moroccan Surfing Federation and was attended by delegates representing surfing organisations from South Africa, Senegal, Cape Verde Islands, Ivory Coast and Madagascar.

Surfing South Africa was represented by its President, Johnny Bakker and Colin Fitch, WSL Africa’s Operations Manager, attended as an observer.

The main objectives of the meeting were to ratify the carefully crafted ASC Constitution and elect office bearers.

Other primary objectives of the African Surfing Confederation will be to promote surfing on the African continent and to represent the interests on individual African surfing federations.

With this in mind, the ASC will encourage the formation of new surfing federations within Africa and assist them to become members of the International Surfing Association thus adding membership to both the ASC and the ISA.

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