I don't recognise him [Mali]
Ray Mali, the new ASA administrator, will on Saturday convene a special general meeting at which he is expected to form an interim board after an election involving representatives of 17 provincial athletics organisations.
But, at the same time on Saturday, the suspended ASA board, with Chuene at the helm, plans to hold its own meeting to which members of the same provincial athletics organisations have been invited.
Members of the suspended board have vowed to fight its suspension in court, claiming that the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, which appointed Mali, had no right to suspend the board.
Simon Dlamini, the suspended chairman of ASA's finance committee and one of Chuene's key allies, said the suspended board will not back down from its "fighting" position.
Dlamini told The Times that Minister of Sport Makhenkesi Stofile was "wrong" to "keep quiet" about the conflict between ASA and Sascoc.
He said: "I don't recognise him [Mali] but I won't interfere with what he wants to do.
"How does the issue of Caster Semenya cause athletics not to operate to an extent that the office is in a shambles?"
"Stofile has done nothing to broker peace between Sascoc and the ASA. From the beginning he was wrong. How can he allow Sascoc to write letters about us?"
Dlamini said the "office of ASA" had called the meeting" on Saturday after the suspended board issued telephonic instructions to do so.
Mali told The Times he was not concerned that Dlamini was organising a meeting of the suspended board: "I am not going to stay in the way of Mr Dlamini when he wants to meet with his associates.
"He believes that the ASA board is still up and running but, as far as I know, they have been suspended."
Mali said he was confident that representatives of all of the 17 provincial athletics organisations will attend the meeting he has convened on Saturday.
The Times has learnt that two more members of the suspended board - Godfrey Hammers and Laraine Lane - have resigned in the wake of the resignations of Chris Britz and Hendrik Mokganyetsi from the suspended board shortly after Mali took over on Monday.
Lane said: "I handed my resignation to the organisation over the weekend. I am feeling incredibly sad to leave athletics after working for 33 years."
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