City Press reports that cash-strapped Boxing SA (BSA) could be forced to use more than half of its R22.7 million budget for the 2023/24 financial year to pay damages to Moffat Qithi, the organisation’s former CEO.

He got the R1 million-a-year job in 2011 and is demanding R15 million from BSA. Qithi has been embroiled in a prolonged lawsuit since BSA suspended him in 2013 for failing to disclose his criminal record, among a raft of other charges. He apparently rejected an R8 million settlement offer tabled by BSA two weeks ago. A disciplinary tribunal in 2015 found Qithi guilty of all 11 charges he faced, including gross dishonesty, fraud and unauthorised personal use of a BSA credit card. The tribunal recommended that BSA should fire Qithi with immediate effect. Qithi approached the CCMA for unfair dismissal and won the case in November 2018. At the time, the CCMA ordered Qithi be paid R3.9 million plus interest for a period from 2015 to 2018 and be reinstated to his job as CEO. BSA filed a review application in the Labour Court in February 2019. The application was dismissed in August last year with BSA being ordered to pay for Qithi’s costs. Then, in November, BSA again filed leave to appeal, this time approaching the Constitutional Court. The appeal was dismissed in February. On Wednesday, BSA chairperson Luthando Jack told MPs that BSA was still engaged in protracted litigation by Qithi. He indicated that BSA was, however, engaging with Qithi’s legal representatives to reach an out-of-court settlement.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tiisetso Malepa at City Press (subscriber access only)

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