CAP ON BOSSO BOARD TERMS
IN line with generational renewal, the Highlanders board of directors will now hold office for a maximum of 10 years compared to the present situation where board members serve for an indefinite period.
This development was reportedly pushed by the “young brigade” in the 11-member board, who felt that being in office for life was detrimental to the development of the club and also prevented other members with new ideas from contributing to the well being of the club.
Club president Jimmy Ncube confirmed to Chronicle Sport that they had agreed to put a cap on the term of office for board members.
“It’s a constitutional arrangement that was put forward and now awaits our members’ consent. The proposal is likely to be brought to the members at our mid-year review meeting which is due in a few weeks’ time,” said Ncube.
If members pass it as a resolution, some of the long-serving board members such as former board chairman Dumisani Sandi, Thomas Ngwenya and Jonathan Moyo will have to retire.
Former chairman Mgcini Nkolomi, who was appointed to the board in 2009, will be left with one year to serve.
Sources told Chronicle Sport that the decision to retire board members after 10 years was not well received by some, especially the old guard.
Highlanders recently made positional changes in their board that saw radio legend Luke Mnkandla taking over as chairman from Nkolomi, while human resources expert Cosmos Sikhosana was appointed vice-chairman, replacing Moyo. Mathew Sibindi kept his position as secretary-general.
“The changes are in keeping with the club’s philosophy of leadership rotation of office bearers,” chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube said in a statement announcing the new changes early last month.
get employment here. We will be engaging corporates who would like to partner with the ZRU so that they can engage some of our players as brand ambassadors.
“Win, win partnerships are imperative for sustainability,’’ Jani said.
He said they wanted to emulate global trends and ensure players were contracted to the union on a fulltime basis.
De Villiers has sought to widen his player-base and is set to take a host of the local players to South Africa for a training camp before he finalises the side that will feature in the 2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup which are serving as the continent’s World Cup qualifiers.
Once they get down to business with the home date against Morocco, the Sables face a busy qualifying schedule that will see them travelling to Nairobi to face Kenya on June 30, and another away assignment against Tunisia a week later on July 7.
The Sables will then return home to host Namibia on August 4 and wind off their qualification bid with an away assignment against Uganda in Kampala. AJAX Cape Town have been relegated from the Absa Premier Soccer League topflight after being found guilty of illegally fielding Tendai Ndoro.
Ndoro’s eligibility has been under question for months and South African Football Association (Safa) legal officer Tebogo Motlanthe said arbitrator William Mokhari ruled that Ajax would be docked nine points from three league matches in which the player was fielded by the Cape Town club.
By fielding Ndoro‚ Ajax Cape Town contravened Rule 54.1 of the National Soccer League rules read with Article 22.9 of the constitution of the National Soccer League‚ article paragraph 5 of the Safa regulations on the status and transfer of players as well as article 5‚ paragraph 3 of the Fifa regulations on the status and transfer which state: “Players may be registered with a maximum of three clubs during one season. During this season‚ the player is only eligible to play official matches for two clubs.”
Those matches were against Platinum Stars (January 12)‚ Polokwane City (February 4) and SuperSport United (February 28).
The games have been awarded to the three teams with 3-0 results and a fine of R50 000 was imposed for each game.
There were four other matches in which a protest was lodged in regards with Ndoro and Ajax were fined R50 000 for each game.
Ndoro has been suspended for two matches, but the docked points mean Ajax‚ who finished the 2017/18 PSL season in 15th place with 31 points from 30 matches‚ have dropped down to the 16th spot‚ which is the automatic relegation position.
Platinum Stars‚ who were initially relegated‚ move up to 15th and will contest the PSL/National First Division promotion and relegation play-offs against Black Leopards and Jomo Cosmos.
Ajax have 72 hours to appeal the ruling with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland.
Meanwhile, Ajax Cape Town released a brief statement on the ruling.
“Ajax Cape Town are currently consulting with their legal team regarding (arbitrator) William Mokhari SC’s arbitration ruling released this morning. The club is in the process of preparing papers to be filed urgently before the High Court in Johannesburg for the matter to be heard tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 10AM. Among other issues, the club will seek to interdict the promotion play-offs from commencing on Wednesday 16th May at 3PM. This will be sought pending an urgent review of the arbitrator’s award this morning.” – SowetanLive/ IOL Sport