- Cricket South Africa's interim board chairperson Dr Stavros Nicolaou said CSA's members' council and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee must come clean with regards to the actions that led to Saturday's Special General Meeting.
- At the SGM, Sascoc president Barry Hendricks made a speech even though he was only invited as a guest while Sascoc had pulled out of the meeting on Saturday morning.
- Nicolaou said the members' council had more than enough time to iron out any issues with regards to the Memorandum of Incorporation amendments before the SGM.
Cricket South Africa's interim board chairperson Dr Stavros Nicolaou lambasted the organisation's members' council and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) for their dishonesty with regards to the Memorandum of Incorporation amendments matter that's threatened to cripple an already beleaguered cricketing body.
Speaking at a virtual press conference, Nicolaou said the members' council statement of 20 April where they complained of not being informed in time with regards to the MoI amendments while also requesting the Special General Meeting that took place on 17 April be moved to 24 April, was riddled with inaccuracies.
Nicolaou also addressed what he said were Sascoc's inaccuracies with regards to their intervention at Saturday's Special General Meeting where they were only given observer status.
At the SGM, only six of the members' council's 14 affiliates voted for the MoI amendments, while five went against. There were three abstentions.
The MoI amendments would have paved the way for an Annual General Meeting to take place where a majority independent board was going to be elected.
It was an action that forced Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa to threaten them with intervention through Section 13 (5) of the Sports Act.
Mthethwa had given the members' council until Tuesday 20 April at 17:00 to respond and when they did, Nicolaou said the Mthethwa told them the response wasn't satisfactory.
"The statement that the members' council put it is inaccurate, neither does it help to solve the problem we're facing," Nicolaou said.
It also doesn't help calling for an indaba because in the background, meetings are called, processes are delayed, legal opinions come and go, and this has been going on for nine years."
"There is only one thing that can be done and that is the members' council finding that 75 percent. We will work with them at the greatest of pleasure to get an MoI over the line, but what we can't have is another undertaking that we're going to have the MoI, only for it to fail at the SGM."
In a series of slides, Nicolaou explained the various interactions and timelines between the bodies in the build-up to the 17 April meeting where Sascoc, who pulled out of the MoI discussions in February, initially availed themselves for the meeting as guests.
Nicolaou said Sascoc pulled out of the meeting on Saturday morning, but Sascoc president Barry Hendricks appeared as a guest and went on to address the meeting.
Hendricks defended his appearance at the meeting to Sport24, saying he was constitutionally mandated to be at the meeting and his job was to put out Sascoc's requirements with regards to the Constitution.
"On the morning of 17 April, Sascoc's acting chief executive officer Ravi Govender wrote to CSA saying that Sascoc won't be attending the meeting," Nicolaou said.
"What then panned out at the SGM was exceedingly disappointing because the agreements that were reached before the date unravelled quite spectacularly."