By Monwabisi Jimlongo
Always criticised for failing in his duties as a Boxing South Africa (BSA) employee, tardy and controversial provincial manager Phakamile Jacobs has now been ordered by the High Court of South Africa Eastern Cape Division in Makhanda to do his job and help BSA licensees.
This followed after Eastern Cape boxer Simamkele Singile and his manager Sizwe Maci took BSA and Jacobs to court following the provincial manager’s failure to avail himself for Singile and Maci to sign a binding contract.
After being frustrated by Jacobs’ dilly-dallying since September, Singile and Maci took the legal route to force BSA to do something about its employee in December last year.
In its ruling on 12 December last year, the Makhanda High Court ordered BSA to take administrative steps necessary to sign and approve the articles of agreement between Singile and Maci within 20 days from the date of the service of the order. The High Court also ordered that both BSA and Jacobs must pay the costs of the application by Singile and Maci.
“We are going to meet him either on the 26th, which is this coming Friday, or the first of February pending the availability of the boxer. Once we sign, we will then have got what we wanted in the first place. I think he got irritated after we sought Boxing SA’s intervention after we had made numerous attempts to meet him. He was always unavailable,” Maci of Maci Incorporated said.
Contacted for comment, Jacobs said: “I gave them two dates, the 26th of January and the first of February. It’s up to them to choose which date will suit them.”
