Cricket SA, BMF to discuss transformation issues

In what has been a spring filled with meeting activities for Cricket SA (CSA)‚ the organisation will be meeting the Black Management Forum (BMF) on Saturday.

CSA have been engaging consistently with the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc)‚ but have not found common ground with the forensic report elephant in the negotiation room.

BMF president Andile Nomlala said as a management oversight body and the fact CSA hadn’t been able to get its governance house in order led to the convening of the meeting.

CSA also confirmed would meet the BMF on Saturday.

“Some of the things we want to engage them on were triggered by some people who approached us with concerns. It’s prudent for us because we’re neither a government agency nor a sporting body.

“Ours is to come through and understand things from the horse’s mouth. The impasses there are very much rife and they haven’t been dealt with‚” Nomlala said.

“Our organisation represents black executives and management across the business spectrum. There’s a complaint that we’ve received and our interests lie with transformation and governance. We deal with these issues at various organisations.”

Nomlala said there were many media reports with regards to the organisation not being able to find its footing‚ but its responsibility was to hear CSA’s side of the story.

At the same time‚ Nomlala said it would be a dereliction of duty to turn a blind eye to CSA’s consistent shortcomings.

“You have to hear what the reports from the organisation are, as there are reports coming out in the media. Once that’s done‚ it’s easier to engage them progressively‚ but ours is to offer a helping hand‚ especially with regards to the governance impasses they have‚” Nomlala said.

“We can’t turn a blind eye to what is happening because we keep the government accountable‚ so we have to do the same with cricket. We all want to get operations and governance of CSA in order, and see that CSA is fully functional.”