Cricket South Africa has bowed to the national government’s ultimatum with a host of board members, including acting president Beresford Williams, tendering their resignations on Sunday morning.
Minister of Sport Nathi Mthethwa had given CSA a deadline to formulate a new interim governance structure by tomorrow if they wanted to avoid government intervention.
Along with Capetonian Williams, Eastern Province’s Donovan May‚ Limpopo Cricket’s John Mogodi‚ Tebogo Siko from the Northerns Cricket Union and Boland’s Angelo Carolissen, have also tendered their resignations with immediate effect.
Acting President of CSA Beresford Williams has handed in his resignation with immediate effect. Mr Williams said that he is deeply passionate about cricket and because of his love for the game, he has resigned as this is the best way he can currently serve cricket.
— Cricket South Africa (@OfficialCSA) October 25, 2020
Siko and Mogadi will, however, remain on the Members’ Council.
Williams says that he remains “deeply passionate about cricket and because of his love for the game, he has resigned as this is the best way he can currently serve cricket”, while Carolissen claims that “these challenges have made huge demands on his career outside of cricket and that it is in his and CSA’s best interest to resign from the board”.
Free State’s Zola Thamae is the last remaining non-independent director on the board.
The plan going forward will be for the remaining independent board members‚ a representative nominated by the minister Mthethwa‚ one by Sascoc and one by the International Cricket Council (ICC), and a former national cricketer pending approval from the South African Cricketers Association (Saca) to comprise the new interim board.
Williams was promoted to acting president after Chris Nenzani resigned from this position in August, alongside then-acting CEO Jacques Faul, who was then replaced by Kugandrie Govender.
CSA has been entangled in controversy ever since now-fired ex-CEO Thabang Moroe was suspended on charges of serious misconduct in December last year.