CSA accepts proposal to settle Gauteng dispute

Cricket South Africa has decided to accept the recommendations tabled by the fact-finding commission it set up to investigate the dispute among members of the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB). The proposals have called for the establishment of an interim structure, comprising an independent administrator who will be assisted by an advisory panel.

The independent administrator will be appointed by CSA, so will the advisory council, in consultation with GCB's stakeholders. The administrator will also act as chairman to an interim nine-member board of elected representatives.

The crisis within the GCB can be traced to its dispute with CSA over the running of the IPL in South Africa in 2009. The differences with CSA were resolved when it was agreed - following a mediation process involving South Africa's Ministry of Sport - that the GCB would elect a new board from the province's "advantaged and disadvantaged clubs," the appointment of a Change Management Committee and the drafting of a new constitution.

Claims of delays in implementing the recommendations of the mediation process followed, to which CSA reacted by appointing a three-member committee, led by former Chief Justice of South Africa, Justice Pius Langa, and also including Justice John Smith and Professor Willie Basson.