Nyoka waiting on report
Today is D-day for Cricket SA to furnish its president, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, with a copy of advocate Azhar Bham's report into a KPMG forensic audit of its affairs.
Nyoka has not received the report - he did not attend the AGM in Port Elizabeth eight days ago where it was debated - and is smelling a rat. He believes that Bham's recommendations and the CSA board's decision to close the Gerald Majola bonus issue are suspicious.
Cricket's governing body has repeatedly told Nyoka that he was welcome to visit its offices to peruse Bham's report but that it would not send it to him electronically because it feared a leak to the media.
Should CSA not oblige and hand over the report, Nyoka would bring an urgent high court application against the governing body by close of business today, said his legal adviser, Bernard Matheson.
He said there was a good chance that the application might be heard by Judge Phineas Mojapelo, who earlier this year overturned the CSA board's motion of no confidence in Nyoka, paving the way for KPMG's forensic audit.
"We're looking for the Bham report as well as the minutes of the Friday board meeting before the Saturday AGM," Matheson said. "We're also looking for the transcripts of the board meeting."
The Nyoka camp has spent a week trying to get hold of this information, to no avail. Efforts have included contacting Bham's instructing attorney and CSA vice-president AK Khan. The lack of co-operation Nyoka has encountered has led him to believe that the board has something to hide.
Matheson did not rule out the possibility that, as part of his application, Nyoka might also ask for a review and the setting aside of the board's decision to close the Majola bonus and travel expenses matters.
The KPMG audit identified four possible instances of Majola violating the Companies Act. The full report, which comprises more than 300 pages, also hones in on numerous irregularities with regard to travel expenses for Majola and his spouse.
Khan was quoted at the end of the AGM as saying that CSA now considered the issues of the bonus and forensic audit a closed matter.
But Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula appears to be unconvinced and has said that he wants to meet with the board members ahead of Thursday's board meeting.





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