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The death sentence sounded yesterday for the Cricket South Africa (CSA) board with the resignation of five non-independent directors and the decision to appoint a board with best corporate governance practitioners may now pick up pace, according to a member council insider.
The resignations of Acting Chairman Beresford Williams and fellow directors Angelo Carolissen (Boland), Donovan May (Eastern Province), John Mogodi (Limpopo) and Tebogo Siko (Northerns), have left the board with only one non-independent director at Zola Thamae and three independents: Dr. Eugenia Kula-Ameyaw, Marius Schoeman and Vuyokazi Memani-Sedile. But they are also expected to withdraw before tomorrow’s deadline set for CSA by Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa, paving the way for an interim board to be appointed, which will complete adjustments to the memorandum of incorporation that will change the composition of board.
The major changes will see most independent and non-independent directors no longer have a seat on the membership council, as recommended by the Nicholson Commission of Inquiry in 2012.
“Not all directors were happy to go, but basically they were told they had to; We force them, ”said the informant of the council of members yesterday.
“Now we will wait for the independents to resign and if they don’t, we will deal with them quickly.
“Then an interim board will be set up and we will take a suggestion on how it should happen to the sports minister tomorrow. “And Sascoc (the South African Sports Confederation and the Olympic Committee) will help us with that.
“There may be one or two current members of the membership council on that interim board.
“But we have decided that no one who was in office in the four years between 2016 and December 2019 will be eligible.”
It looks like Central Gauteng cricket’s Anne Vilas and KZN chairman Ben Dladla, two of the stars in the member’s council’s efforts to show their strength against the board, could be on the interim board as they have recently been elected.
However, there are some doubts that the interim board can formalize the new memorandum of incorporation before the annual general meeting on December 5, possibly delaying the elections for the new permanent board.
There have been some far-from-stellar appointments in recent years.
Independent directors have largely failed to intervene in the governance scandals that have plagued CSA and, in some cases, exacerbated them.
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