Former SA cricket chief Ali Bacher is expected to explain the justification for the alleged payment of R5-million in bonuses when the sports ministry's inquiry into cricket resumes in Pretoria tomorrow.
Cricket SA CEO Gerald Majola in December told the committee that Bacher, a former United Cricket Board general manager, had pocketed R5-million after the 2003 cricket World Cup in South Africa.
Bacher accepted a request from the committee, chaired by Judge Chris Nicholson, to give a verbal statement and he will face the inquiry this afternoon.
John Bester, the CSA finance committee chairman, is scheduled to appear in the morning, and Norman Arendse, a former CSA president, will give his verbal submission tomorrow.
The sports ministry said "more days and witnesses" might be added to the schedule.
The committee received more than 30 written submissions and interviewed at least 20 witnesses last year.
Nicholson said after the inquiry adjourned in December that the committee would analyse the evidence, which included more than 5000 pages of documents.
After further submissions this week, a report will be given to Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula by the end of February.
Mbalula is not obliged to accept the committee's recommendations.
Mbalula announced the Nicholson inquiry after auditing firm KPMG recommended that CSA's remuneration and travel allowance policy be reviewed.
A KPMG audit found that bonus payments to staff had not been fully declared to the governing body's remuneration committee and that Majola had breached the Companies Act on at least four occasions.
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