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Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) presentation in parliament on Tuesday began on a dramatic note after Acting President Beresford Williams was asked to leave the virtual session as he is implicated in the forensic report that the organization was to present .
CSA company secretary Welsh Gwaza was also asked to recuse himself after members of parliament singled him out for apparently improper conduct in handling and facilitating the delivery of the forensic report by Fundudzi Forensic Services, a company hired in March to Investigate board and management practices. in the organization for the past four years.
The presentation had barely begun when the members of the portfolio committee for sports, arts and culture asked that everyone involved or whose name is mentioned in the forensic report leave the meeting.
CSA’s independent board member Marius Schoeman defended the board’s refusal to resign in its entirety, saying the conflict of interest against Williams was reported to the membership council, the organization’s highest decision-making body. , composed of the 12 provincial presidents, including the president. and vice president.
“The dispute against the acting president, Mr. Williams, was reported to the council of members and the members decided that, although their matter was considered serious, the members decided that Mr. Williams should not resign,” Schoeman told the members of the portfolio committee.
Williams is one of four CSA nominees competing for the organization’s presidency at their elective AGM on December 5, despite the conflict of interest confirmed in the forensic summary report on a loan of R5m to the Cricket Association of the United States. Western Province (WPCA), a union where he was the president of.
TimesLIVE reported in July that Williams was involved in a conflict of interest involving him and former CSA board member and finance committee chairman Iqbal Khan.
A summary forensic report released by CSA to the public and the media last week confirmed that Fundudzi Forensic Services, a company hired in March, found that Williams was in conflict with former board member Khan.
The complaint alleged that Williams, then a CSA vice president, was in conflict with a partnership agreement concluded with the WPCA for infrastructure development at Newlands in Cape Town.
The complaint also involved WPCA independent director Mustaq Brey, who resigned in July.
Khan resigned as an independent director in December, while Brey resigned his position as an independent director at the WPCA seven months later.
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