Norman Arendse has written an open letter to Cricket SA and appealed to the beleaguered sports body to act against maladministration and the banning of journalists.
A reeling CSA has found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons after five journalists had their accreditations revoked this past weekend‚ rendering them unable to work at Mzansi Super League games in Cape Town and Johannesburg this past weekend.
Arendse‚ an experience senior advocate who served as CSA president in 2008 and also served as a lead independent director in the same organisation after the Nicholson report recommended that the organisation have independent directors serving on their board‚ has implored his former colleagues to right the listing cricket ship.
“As a former CSA president‚ and until just over a year ago‚ the CSA lead independent director‚ I have the utmost respect for prescribed procedures and protocols to be followed when differences arise within the cricket family.’ “I do not wish to be hypocritical or self-serving. As a veteran cricket administrator‚ I have learnt to accept constructive criticism ‚ and from members of the public who know their cricket.
“Our transformation strategy appeared to be working with an exponential increase in the number of Black African players‚ in particular‚ representing the country at the highest level; and‚ the exponential increase of black African cricketers participating at franchise and provincial level; and financially we reached the billion Rand mark .
“The CEO’s recent interview has also not inspired any confidence that he is capable of arresting CSA’s decline‚ let alone turning around the organisation to put it on a more secure and sustainable footing.
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