CSA yet to finalise Moroe’s case
Cricket body fails to meet its own deadline
Crisis-riddled Cricket South Africa (CSA) is set to continue operating with an acting accounting officer‚ at least for the foreseeable future‚ after the governing body admitted to failing to meet its own deadline to finalise proceedings into suspended chief executive Thabang Moroe.
Today marks exactly six months since Moroe was put on “precautionary suspension with pay” on December 6 last year on what the CSA board said was “allegations of misconduct”.
The Chris Nenzani-led CSA board said the decision to place Moroe on precautionary suspension followed reports from both the social and ethics and the audit and risk committees‚ which flagged “possible failure of controls in the organisation”.
CSA president and board chairperson Nenzani has been steadfast in his assurance to the cricket fraternity and the public that Moroe’s suspension “will be finalised in six months”.
But it has emerged this week that CSA are nowhere near finalisation of Moroe’s suspension‚ which has reportedly cost the organisation just over R2m.
The CSA board admitted that they are still far from completing the matter‚ giving the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions as a reason.
“The advent of Covid-19 has not only had a global impact on the world health status‚ but it has also meant that it could not be business as usual on the operations front‚” the CSA board said in an emailed statement yesterday when asked on the status of proceedings against Moroe.
The CSA board said this despite having signed on a number of executive and nonexecutive management appointments during the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.
Graeme Smith’s acting role as director of cricket was made permanent and Limpopo Cricket boss John Mogodu was elected as a non-independent director on the CSA board despite the lockdown.
CSA also concluded and announced two new commercial partnerships when leading national telecommunication providers BitCo Telecoms and Kemach Equipment came on board despite the Covid-19 restrictions.