EP cricket defends CSA's woes
The embattled Cricket SA (CSA) board is “doing a good job and is going nowhere ”— and calls for it to be dissolved are “nonsense”.
This was the emphatic statement made by Eastern Province Cricket president Donovan May on Wednesday, as the CSA board appeared to enjoy majority support from the powerful members’ council.
May, who sits on the board as a non-independent director, emphasised that the 14-member council has thrown its weight behind the Chris Nenzani-led board.
“I am in full support of the board.
“I find nothing wrong with the board at all and I actually think that they have been doing a good job,” May told TimesLIVE.
“The board is united and the members’ council has given us the green light, as you heard the president say at our AGM at the weekend.
“It is the media which is driving this thing [calls for the removal of the board].
“It is the media that is crucifying us.”
May said the majority of provinces expressed their support for the board during the AGM at the weekend.
The CSA board will face stiff
— albeit lone — opposition from the Central Gauteng Lions (CGL).
The CGL resolved last week at their meeting in Johannesburg that “the entire CSA board, inclusive of its CEO Thabang Moroe, must resign with immediate effect”.
A Johannesburg-based law firm offered to launch a court application on behalf of CGL to have the CSA directors declared delinquent and removed from office
The unnamed firm also offered to cover the cost of the application, including advocates’ costs.
CGL CEO Jono Leaf-Wright confirmed on Wednesday that the union had received a letter from a Johannesburg-based law firm.
“Yes we have received the letter, but essentially we are going to decline the offer,” LeafWright said.
“CGL would like to confirm that it will not take up the offer.
“We will do this [maintain our position that the CSA board must resign with immediate effect] the Central Gauteng Lions way and not any other way,” he said.
The CGL called for an interim board to be installed, the immediate appointment of senior management and an immediate forensic investigation into CSA affairs be undertaken.
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