For those who don’t quite understand the machinations that led to sports minister Nathi Mthethwa threatening to "derecognise" the Proteas cricket team this weekend, you’re not alone. Essentially, the debacle illustrates that SA’s sports administrators are entirely out of touch with modern standards of governance. So much so that it’s hardly surprising that, every few years, we learn that some or other official has fleeced their sport.
In this case, a group of cricket officials belonging to the "members’ council" voted against a new constitution for the crisis-ridden Cricket SA (CSA). This constitution would have brought CSA into the modern era, obliging its board to have a majority of independent directors...
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