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By Stuart Hess 
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JOHANNESBURG – Cricket South Africa has dug the deepest holes for itself. Senior cricket writer Stuart Hess recalls key moments since Thabang Moroe was suspended as CEO in December.
Dec 6, 2019 – Thabang Moroe is suspended as CEO, with full salary, pending the result of an independent forensic audit. Cricket SA refers to reports received from two committees that allege “possible failure of controls in the organization.”
December 7 – CSA President Chris Nenzani says he and the organization’s Board of Directors are not responsible for the issues that led to Moroe’s suspension. “The Board is not complicit in terms of decision-making,” says Nenzani. Jacques Faul is also named interim CEO of CSA.
December eleven – Graeme Smith Named Acting Cricket Director.
December 14 – Smith appoints Mark Boucher, the new head coach of the Proteas men’s team. Enoch Nkwe is his assistant. Both are awarded four-year contracts, with a view to the 2023 Cricket World Cup.
December 16 – CSA announces that former ICC CEO Dave Richardson will lead a committee to evaluate the restructuring of national cricket. That problem had caused a deep rift between the players union, the SA Cricket Association and the CSA.
Dec 26 – Royal cricket occupies a central place for a time, with the start of the first Test against England in Centurion. South Africa will win that match a few days later, their first victory in six Tests. However, the series would be lost next month, leaving the Proteas with a record of one win in their last nine Tests.
January 20, 2020 – Faul says the forensic audit will begin in early February. This would later be shown to be an illusion.
March 16, 2020 – CSA announces the suspension of the rest of the national season due to the Covid-19 epidemic. CSA staff said to work from home, but the forensic investigation was unaffected.
May 19, 2020 – CSA announces that Vuyokazi Memani-Sedile, Dheven Dharmalingam and Dr. Eugenia Kula-Ameyaw will serve as independent directors until the AGM on September 5.
8 of June – (10:42 am) Asociación de Críquet de SA, criticizes CSA for not meeting the “six-month deadline” it established to complete the investigations related to Moroe’s suspension.
(5.30pm) CSA says it notes, “stakeholder concerns.” “This situation is regrettable, and CSA would like to assure all cricket stakeholders of our primary intention to ensure absolute transparency on related forensic findings once all related processes have been concluded.”
June 11 – Moroe shows up at the CSA office (which is empty because staff are working from home due to Covid-19 restrictions) to resume work, claiming that his six-month suspension has ended. Nenanzi tells security to let him in because it’s cold outside.
June 12 – After an evening meeting, the CSA Board says Moroe remains suspended until the forensic investigation is completed. “The Board is confident that the investigation is reaching a critical point and that there will be more clarity and certainty before the end of June,” says CSA in a statement.
June 14th – CSA fires head of sponsor relations Clive Eksteen, claiming he was “guilty of misdemeanors of a serious nature.” Eksteen brings CSA to CCMA
June 16 – Nenzani addresses an online press conference, revealing that Moroe was only given written confirmation of his suspension on January 24 (in terms of the CSA Code of Conduct, this is a problem). It also states that the Council of Members took responsibility for the forensic investigation, establishing the terms of reference and finding the company that would carry it out. This meant that the investigation, conducted by Fundudzi Forensic Services, only began to work on March 6.
19th of June – Nenzani tells the parliamentary portfolio committee for sports, arts and culture that the report will be sent to CSA at the end of the month. “To the extent permitted by law, we will share the information in the report with the public and this committee.”
June 23 – A document is leaked stating that Boucher is a shareholder in a company that created the 3TC event. CSA says the document is false, it will investigate who leaked it and criminal charges could arise.
June 29 – The CSA Board meets to discuss the first part of the forensic report. “I would like to emphasize that the Board is addressing this matter urgently and is committed to bringing it to an immediate conclusion,” says Nenzani. “We will certainly be able to act on the issue of the suspended CEO based on the first report.”
July 8 – Following a report in the Sunday Times, CSA denies changing the auditors’ terms of reference. The Times stated that an internal document it acquired indicated that the auditors’ terms of reference were changed to divert the attention of the Board and focus on Moroe and senior management.
July 21 – “The report and the actions recommended by the Board will be considered by the Council of Members shortly,” says Nenzani. “Then we will be in a position to make the relevant parts public. We can’t put a precise date (when that will happen). “
August 1 – Cricket director Graeme Smith says there is “cancer within the organization.” Try to sit down and find out who in the top positions of this organization is doing this and why. What is the end goal? Does cricket work? Ask for the forensic report to be made public.
August 7th – CSA company secretary Welsh Gwaza says the forensic report is an “internal source document for the Council of Members” and “is not a public document, but remains an internal property of CSA”
August 8 – Northerns Cricket Union President Tebogo Siko becomes the first representative of the Board and Member Council to publicly demand that the report be delivered to the Member Council.
August 13 – The CSA Board has a long meeting with Moroe and his legal team. “Nothing material came up,” said Moroe’s attorney, Michael Motsoeneng Bill.
August 16th – CSA fires COO Nassei Appiah, claiming he was “guilty of serious offenses.” Appiah takes her case to Labor Court.
17 of August – (11.02am) CSA announces that Nenzani has resigned as president.
(6.02pm) Faul confirms that he has resigned as interim CEO. Both men had less than a month left in their respective positions.
August 19 – SACA says the resignations of Nenzani and Faul are a clear indication that “cricket in South Africa is at war with itself.”
20th of August – Beresford Williams, acting president of the CSA requests that the meeting of the organization with the portfolio committee of sports, arts and culture of parliament, scheduled for the following day, be postponed. The main topic to discuss was the forensic report. In a letter to the committee, Williams says CSA’s Audit and Risk Committee received the final report on July 31.
“The Audit and Risk Committee is currently reviewing said report to ensure that the matters discussed in it are properly processed by Cricket South Africa. As such, the draft final forensic report has not been shared with the CSA Council of Members, who are the initiators of the independent forensic investigation. “
August 21 – Resigns the independent director Prof. Steve Cornelius.
August 24 – The list of nominations for the Board and the Presidency to be voted on at the Board is delivered to the Council of Members, it contains a suspended provincial president, another who is being investigated for assault, while the three nominees for independent positions on the Board are the only names submitted and the candidates proposed by the provinces have been ignored.
August 25th – Veteran sports administrators, including former CSA and ICC president Ray Mali, call for the AGM to be postponed.
August 25th – Kugandrie Govender is appointed interim CEO of CSA. Thamie Mthembu is named Interim Business Director.
August 27th – (2.07pm) Central Gauteng Lions asks the CSA Board to resign immediately, citing problems with the nominations process for the AGM
(3:14 PM) CSA fires Moroe on the grounds that he committed “acts of gross misconduct.”
August 31 – (3pm) CSA meets with Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
(8.11pm) CSA announces that it will postpone its AGM scheduled for September 5 and will attempt to implement the recommendations of the Nicholson commission along with the recommendations contained in the forensic report before setting a new date for the AGM.
September 1 – CSA meets with Sascoc.
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