Next year's Olympians will be the last "lily white" team to represent South Africa at the world games, according to Butana Komphela, chairperson of the National Assembly's sports committee.
This was after several MPs baulked at the 74-member team's racial composition, expressing concern that it was 37 percent black and 63 percent white.
They also regarded the team's gender make-up of 62 percent male and 38 percent female as being "unpalatable".
Komphela said on Tuesday once a new law regulating sport in SA was on the statute books, teams that did not match SA's demographic profile would be prevented from representing the country.
Rattling its transformation sabre during a joint briefing by the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) and the department of sport on preparations for the Beijing Olympic Games, Komphela said the new act governing sport would allow the government to intervene.
He said the team would have to get to the airport quickly as it would be the last time an unrepresentative team would be allowed through immigration.
He added that it was time the sporting federations felt the government's whip after they had in many instances failed to transform their teams voluntarily.
It was not until people were severely punished that they would know that there was a rule of law in the country, Komphela said.
Sascoc, meanwhile, said it would need greater funding from the government if it was to compete with the likes of Australia and other countries in the medal stakes.
Sascoc's Hajera Kasee argued that Australia had spent the equivalent of about R1-billion to win their 49 medals, while SA with its R60-million budget only managed five medals.
"What we are saying is that the more resources you put into team preparation, the more medals you win," she said.
Meanwhile, the anticipated meeting between MPs and the Premier Soccer League concerning the television rights debacle was postponed on Tuesday due to the legal wrangling the public broadcaster was currently embroiled in.
Instead, the SABC forwarded an old media statement to the sports committee, expressing its optimism that the matter would be positively resolved.
Komphela, while accepting the excuse, said the broadcaster would still be required to appear before the committee.
"We will interact with the SABC at an appropriate time."