By Monwabisi Jimlongo
Former Boxing South Africa (BSA) chief executive officer Moffat Qithi has given the boxing regulatory body yet another beating.
This comes after the Labour Court in Johannesburg dismissed BSA’s application to review the decision of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) ruling, which ruled in Qithi’s favour in his case after he was fired by the boxing regulatory body following a disciplinary hearing in 2015.
Qithi won his case against BSA on 17 December 2018 and the CCMA ordered that he be paid R3,9 million plus interest and also he be reinstated as CEO.
After dilly-dallying the then BSA board applied for the review of the CCMA ruling on 1 February 2019 – the last day of the six weeks provided for in Section 145 of the Labour Relations Act.
The matter was heard at the Labour Court in Johannesburg on 9 June this year and the judgment was delivered on Tuesday.
Judge Portia Nkutha-Nkontwana dismissed BSA’s review application and ordered the organisation to pay Qithi’s costs including the costs of the review application.
