BusinessLive reports that a battle for control of the Free State Sports Confederation (FSSC) is poised to play out in the arbitration hearing of fired CEO Jerry Segwaba scheduled to begin on Monday at the CCMA.
Segwaba‚ also the president of the Free State Rugby Union, had his FSSC post terminated in late 2019. But in 2020, the FSSC executive that pushed him out‚ headed by president Lucas Matobako‚ was itself dissolved by Free State sport MEC Limakatso Mahasa. The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) described the MEC’s move as illegal‚ and president Barry Hendricks has said they would “engage on a political level” in that regard with Mahasa and national sport minister Nathi Mthethwa. The nine provincial sports confederations have also come out in support of their Free State counterpart‚ pointing out they were nongovernmental organisations and beyond the jurisdiction of provincial governments. At the heart of the Segwaba CCMA case is a 30-page management report by auditing firm Mazars, which details a slew of corporate governance transgressions from 2013 to 2016‚ when Segwaba was both CEO and president. But, Segwaba claims he was fired as retaliation for accusing Matobako of double-dipping on an expenses claim for a trip to a Sascoc meeting in February 2018. Matobako has dismissed this as nothing more than an allegation. Both Segwaba and Matobako said they intended being represented at the CCMA hearing on Monday.
- Read the full original of the detailed report in the above regard by David Isaacson at BusinessLive
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