CSA crisis over forensic report

THE South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) still wants to meet Cricket South Africa (CSA) about establishing a task team to investigate the crises affecting the cricket body.

Despite CSA rejecting Sascoc’s attempts to intervene in its affairs – including a task team and calling for CSA’s board and some senior officials to “step aside” – Sascoc yesterday called for a meeting to take place later yesterday or today.

Sascoc’s acting chief executive, Ravi Govender, said: “As the macro body, we are guiding them to meet us.

“Sascoc has not issued a public statement. We wrote directly to CSA and its council. It’s rather unfortunate that CSA issued a public statement before engaging with us. We are hoping we can overcome that little hurdle and move forward with what we need to do,” said Ravi.

Sascoc’s board met on Tuesday and resolved to establish a task team to investigate a litany of complaints made about CSA by players and sponsors, as well as the reasons for a number of resignations from CSA in the last 10 months.

Sascoc’s board demanded that CSA’s board of directors and a handful of senior officials, most notably the acting chief executive Kugandrie Govender and the company secretary Welsh Gwaza, “step aside” on full pay.

Sascoc anticipates that the investigation will take one month.

It is furious that CSA has refused to provide it with the forensic audit report conducted by Fundudzi Forensic Services. The audit was commissioned by CSA’s Members Council – its highest decision-making body made up of the provincial presidents – to investigate CSA’s former chief executive Thabang Moroe and the work of CSA’s board, among other matters.

On the basis of that report, CSA fired Moroe two weeks ago.