The new board of Boxing South Africa (BSA), which was announced by Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Zizi Kodwa, last month is not going to take office on Tuesday as it was initially expected.
This followed after Kodwa instructed the office of the State Attorney in Pretoria that the new board must wait until the pending finalisation of the application brought by the National Professional Boxing Promoters Association (NPBPA) challenging the Minister of Sport’s announcement of the new BSA board.
“We refer to the above matter and confirm that we act on behalf of the First Respondent (the Minister of Arts, Sports and Culture). We are instructed by the First Respondent that the new board of the Second Respondent would not assume duties tomorrow the 12th December 2023 pending the finalization of Part A of your client application,” a letter from the State Attorney said.
Part A of the NPBPA’s 88-page application is seeking order ‘interdicting and prohibiting the First Respondent from effecting the appointment of the Third to Ninth respondents as members of the board of the Second Respondent pending the hearing and determination of the application to review and set aside in terms of Part B of this application’.
All the seven members – Sifiso Shongwe, Luxolo September, Sakhiwe Sodo, Romy Titus, Princess Mangoma, Nande Mheshe and Dr Mary-Gene Manthata-Setati – of the new BSA board have been cited as respondents to the case brought by the NPBPA.
