Fiasco at Cricket South Africa must be hit for a six
● Not only has six months passed since Thabang Moroe was suspended as the CEO of Cricket SA, there appears to be no end to the fiasco between him and the organisation.
But it does look like CSA is now playing finda finda with the findings by the forensic investigators looking into the matter. Depending on who you believe, the report is either complete or partially complete.
This emerged when the CSA bigwigs wheeled their virtual briefcases and formed a beeline to appear before the parliamentary portfolio committee for sport, arts & culture for a grilling by its members last week.
Only the devil knows why they had the compulsion to claim that the forensic report has been completed.
And with the devil in the detail,
Moroe’s lawyer clearly spelt out the contradiction creating the impression of liar, liar, liar, CSA pants are on fire!
They have no reason to be convenient with the truth. So what is the end game of this brinkmanship?
If Moroe is guilty of treating the company credit card as his personal piggy bank, he must be moered mercilessly with the necessary sanction and left to wallow in his misery like all thieving morons should be.
If he is guilty of inappropriate financial and other reporting, misappropriation of assets, inappropriate use of business assets and expenditures relating to credit cards, he must face the music come hell or high water.
If he is the one who is delaying the process from coming to finality, an opinion is formed in the mind of the observer that the guilty are afraid.
And if there is one thing that does not need a forensic report to establish it is that Moroe was Idi Amin-like in revoking
In one fell swoop the face of cricket suddenly developed an allergic reaction to melanin
the media accreditation of five journalists just because they rubbed him up the wrong way. The lightning pace of the predisposition for suspension is unmatched by the snail’s speed of finalising the report.
The full report was due to be completed at the end of the month and would be submitted to the members council. “In as far as the law allows we'll share information in the report with the public and this committee,” president Chris Nenzani said.
Tick tock. The month ends on Tuesday. As a member of the eminent persons group on transformation in sport, Willie Basson calls it like he sees it.
He is the right person to speak, for he has been treading the transformation path for 18 years.
The tumultuous times that have engulfed CSA in recent months did not escape the critical eye of the scientist.
Instructive was his observation of the subsequent sweeping changes which followed in the management structure.
In one fell swoop the face of leadership at the top echelons of cricket suddenly developed an allergic reaction to melanin. “If you look at the composition of the CSA management at this stage, it just became untransformed overnight you know,” Basson told TimesLIVE last month.
He warned that more resources and facilities should be channelled towards areas that were previously marginalised.
“Ninety percent of our population is black. With the white population dying, we have to focus on the black population.
“So why do you perpetuate a system with a dying breed?” asked Basson.
“Why don’t you create opportunities wherever you are and see to it that people are well prepared and have the experience to be able to lead the country into the future?”
Among the people whose visibility is as rare as the teeth of a chicken in the top tier of CSA leadership are women.
We are good at pointing out where the problems are. Our inherent failure is in our chronic inability to genuinely confront the causes, nip them in the bud and move forward with integrity and honesty. Without wasting another six months.
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