BusinessLive reports that Barry Hendricks has hit back at his suspension as acting president of the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc)‚ saying the organisation’s board should be dissolved and an independent administrator appointed.
In a letter addressed to all sports federations that make up Sascoc‚ Hendricks said the board was failing in its duties while the organisation was on the brink of “financial collapse”. Pending arbitration, Hendricks was provisionally suspended by the board on Wednesday on the basis of a report from a lawyer who examined allegations of unethical conduct on the part of Hendricks for allegedly blocking Ntambi Ravele from standing against him in the coming Sascoc elections. Hendricks has denied the allegation. He also sent letters to sports minister Nathi Mthethwa and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In his letter to Mthethwa‚ Hendricks took issue with the minister for writing to the IOC and inviting it to intervene and resolve what he had termed “unhealthy developments around Sascoc”. Hendricks told the minister that his efforts to broker the dispute could be seen as interference. The board advised on Wednesday that Aleck Skhosana‚ president of Athletics SA‚ would take over as acting president of Sascoc.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by David Isaacson at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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