Patience is going to be the name of the game as aspirant Boxing South Africa (BSA) licensees are set to wait until the middle of October before finding out whether they will be licensed for the 2023/24 financial year or not.
This was revealed by acting BSA chief executive officer Erick Nsikayezwe Sithole to Ink Sport following questions around the licensing of managers, ring officials and promoters, who attended the recent training and assessment courses.
“Everything will be concluded mid-October. We will wait for a board meeting, which will make a decision,” Sithole told Ink Sport.
License applicants in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape wrote tests under the supervision of BSA board member Khulile Radu. The applicants’ scripts are yet to be marked.
“We will consolidate the marks and then look at the applications in our system. We will then send a spreadsheet and comments to the board after we had done internal vetting. We will also look at whether an applicant has pending cases or not,” Sithole revealed.
Clearly, there’s no guarantee that applicants who were BSA licensees during the 2022/23 financial year are going to be licensed. Applicants who received below 50 percent from the tests in the first phase were not licensed.
