JOHANNESBURG - Cricket South Africa incurred the wrath of Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa when its acting president, Beresford Williams, wrote to the minister telling him he had no right to intervene in Cricket SA’s affairs.
“I want to point out that my role as Minister responsible for Sport, Arts and Culture, involves ensuring that the existing sports dispute-handling machinery is invoked in terms of Sascoc’s mandate, whenever it appears that certain of their affiliates are bringing their sport into disrepute,” Mthethwa wrote.
“May I remind you that the government, at great expense to itself, initiated the Nicholson Commission to assist CSA with its shortcomings in governance, with some of the recommendations still to be implemented,” Mthethwa states. “At that point, same as we are doing currently, government was not accused of interference even by the ICC you appear to be threatening us about.”
Furthermore, we are of the view that such a requirement probably constitutes government interference in CSA’s governance, regulation and / or administration, as contemplated in the memorandum of association of the International Cricket Council and, as such, interferes with CSA’s contractual obligations to the ICC and jeopardises CSA’s continued membership of the ICC.”
The ICC said Wednesday it was monitoring the situation saying it “encouraged,” its affiliates to resolve matters with their governments. The players union, the SA Cricketers Association, demanded that CSA’s current board of directors, step down.
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