On Friday evening Cricket South Africa’s lawyers advised the Members Council that, should they choose to defy the Minister of Sport and refuse to appoint and cooperate with the Interim Board of directors, and the Minister cancelled England’s tour of South Africa as a result, then they would have a strong case against him in court.
Madness Indeed. Well, at the end of the day this is what happens when people and politicians become involved in the administration of a game they know nothing about, but where there may be a wiff of cash to be stolen though some form of corrupt deal and get paid to fly around the country at someone elses expense. At the end of the day, if you want to know where it went wrong - "follow the moeny" and you will find out. Its a disgrace and yet another microcosm of African Politics at large. THE END.
Mark - you may be pleased, reassured or grateful to hear that your general sentiment is shared by (the majority of) the new Interim Board. The language they are using to describe their work is robust, to say the least. Judge Zak Yacoob is determined to "find all of the rot", expose it and clean it up. He has a single-minded determination. Unless he is stopped by foul or nefarious means, I'm backing him to succeed.
Thanks for the response Neil and lets hope that Sanity will indeed prevail and we can find administrators in the Job who are more interested in the game than in enriching themselves.
How did it get to this point? From the welcome we got in India in 1990, to the first 1st against the West Indies, to hosting the Cricket World Cup, hosting the IPL in their moment of crisis..Here we are in a crisis....
The English Tour should never have been considered..CSA cannot arrange games with Zimbabwe, or Namibia, or even Eswatini...
Where is the heavy all demanding sports journalism? The every day heavy pressure by the scribes? It seems that Mr Manners is the only one putting any pressure on the sport.. I have been banned from a number of twitter followers accounts as a result of demanding answers...
Damn right I should, as a tax payer, as a South African, I am damn mad about the whole dogpooh that has become SA sport, Bafana cannot hope to win, Proteas maybe 1 game in 10.. So many sports floundering in mal-administration, and many "scribes" publish puff pieces, ego stroking, public relations press releases...
The 4th estate is RIP, it no longer.. Funny as the daughter of the land lord is about to write an exam on the French Revolution, in which journalism is a vital healthy part of democracy, who inspects the fox in the hen house???
Sports journalists should not be afraid of writing tough foot in the fire burned to the ankles stories, that is their role and function, journalists represent me, their audience, we cannot be in the press conference, the sports journalists are my proxy, they ask my questions...
When journalism is allowed to die, so does respect for law, for doing the right thing.. This above anything else is the reason why we are in this mess...
Case in point, Geoffrey Boycott over on Sky Cricket talked about the upcoming tour, never mentioned the issues in CSA, I posted that the tourists might be considered "rebels" I asked why is England Cricket supporting the tour? Rewarding bad behaviour...No reply to that comment from Mr Boycott...But someone from Australia did put a link up highlighting the issues...
What Mr Boycott did was a puff piece, too afraid to confront the very large elephant in the room...I thank Mr Manners for his bravery, at great cost no doubt...I miss local cricket, I miss SA playing, but I want SA to be play clean cricket, in which the right board is doing the right job for the right reason...
Educating children with grift, is not the right reason, sure some compensation is normal, and what the solution is, I am not an expert, I just see a lot of mal administration, and I have a lot of concerns over recent hiring of coaches for certain roles...
Justine - strong, robust and bold journalism will always survive, somehow. It will go through tough periods but human nature means people will always be willing to ask hard questions and seek the truth... :)
Yes, you are a strong robust journalist, I don't see this from the UK press, all I see is rainbows and sunshine... The tour is barely legal, in bad taste, for the wrong reasons...
Sometimes I wonder, should I be a journalist?. I see things a certain way, granted not everyone's cup of tea, I have questions about how sports are managed..I have spent a career of over 20 years in the media production, news in particular, worked with great journalists, and that rubbed off...I am somewhat saddened that such great events are tarnished by greed and corruption and no one seems to care...
Madness Indeed. Well, at the end of the day this is what happens when people and politicians become involved in the administration of a game they know nothing about, but where there may be a wiff of cash to be stolen though some form of corrupt deal and get paid to fly around the country at someone elses expense. At the end of the day, if you want to know where it went wrong - "follow the moeny" and you will find out. Its a disgrace and yet another microcosm of African Politics at large. THE END.
Mark - you may be pleased, reassured or grateful to hear that your general sentiment is shared by (the majority of) the new Interim Board. The language they are using to describe their work is robust, to say the least. Judge Zak Yacoob is determined to "find all of the rot", expose it and clean it up. He has a single-minded determination. Unless he is stopped by foul or nefarious means, I'm backing him to succeed.
Thanks for the response Neil and lets hope that Sanity will indeed prevail and we can find administrators in the Job who are more interested in the game than in enriching themselves.
How did it get to this point? From the welcome we got in India in 1990, to the first 1st against the West Indies, to hosting the Cricket World Cup, hosting the IPL in their moment of crisis..Here we are in a crisis....
The English Tour should never have been considered..CSA cannot arrange games with Zimbabwe, or Namibia, or even Eswatini...
Where is the heavy all demanding sports journalism? The every day heavy pressure by the scribes? It seems that Mr Manners is the only one putting any pressure on the sport.. I have been banned from a number of twitter followers accounts as a result of demanding answers...
Damn right I should, as a tax payer, as a South African, I am damn mad about the whole dogpooh that has become SA sport, Bafana cannot hope to win, Proteas maybe 1 game in 10.. So many sports floundering in mal-administration, and many "scribes" publish puff pieces, ego stroking, public relations press releases...
The 4th estate is RIP, it no longer.. Funny as the daughter of the land lord is about to write an exam on the French Revolution, in which journalism is a vital healthy part of democracy, who inspects the fox in the hen house???
Sports journalists should not be afraid of writing tough foot in the fire burned to the ankles stories, that is their role and function, journalists represent me, their audience, we cannot be in the press conference, the sports journalists are my proxy, they ask my questions...
When journalism is allowed to die, so does respect for law, for doing the right thing.. This above anything else is the reason why we are in this mess...
Case in point, Geoffrey Boycott over on Sky Cricket talked about the upcoming tour, never mentioned the issues in CSA, I posted that the tourists might be considered "rebels" I asked why is England Cricket supporting the tour? Rewarding bad behaviour...No reply to that comment from Mr Boycott...But someone from Australia did put a link up highlighting the issues...
What Mr Boycott did was a puff piece, too afraid to confront the very large elephant in the room...I thank Mr Manners for his bravery, at great cost no doubt...I miss local cricket, I miss SA playing, but I want SA to be play clean cricket, in which the right board is doing the right job for the right reason...
Educating children with grift, is not the right reason, sure some compensation is normal, and what the solution is, I am not an expert, I just see a lot of mal administration, and I have a lot of concerns over recent hiring of coaches for certain roles...
Justine - strong, robust and bold journalism will always survive, somehow. It will go through tough periods but human nature means people will always be willing to ask hard questions and seek the truth... :)
Yes, you are a strong robust journalist, I don't see this from the UK press, all I see is rainbows and sunshine... The tour is barely legal, in bad taste, for the wrong reasons...
Sometimes I wonder, should I be a journalist?. I see things a certain way, granted not everyone's cup of tea, I have questions about how sports are managed..I have spent a career of over 20 years in the media production, news in particular, worked with great journalists, and that rubbed off...I am somewhat saddened that such great events are tarnished by greed and corruption and no one seems to care...