Former Boxing South Africa (BSA) chief executive officer Tsholofelo Lejaka didn’t mince his words as he spoke out about what his suspicions are at the memorial service of slain BSA chief financial officer Kenneth Mamosadi at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria Central on Thursday.
Mamosadi, who joined BSA as finance manager in 2015 and then got elevated to CFO in March last year, was shot dead by two assailants near his Pretoria West home on Friday evening and the killers only stole his cellphone.
“Kenny deserves justice. We’ll draw no conclusions, but we’ve got suspicions. My message to the boxing fraternity, get your house in order. CEO, Boxing South Africa is not supposed to be mentioned in the line of suspicion. People speculate about why and how Kenny departed,” Lejaka said.
“Investigations by their own nature are diverted, they cover everything and eveybody. But I’m sure you would have loved to preside over an organisation that when things like this happens, nobody even thinks about Hatfield. At this point, it’s difficult to rule it out and you can pick it up from what the colleagues are saying. Just get your house in order. Boxing South Africa, not only the bureaucracy, even the licensees making headlines for wrong reasons.”
A forthright Lejaka added: “Delinquents are running the show. People that we know for a fact they ought not to be keeping any of this organisation or its activities at ransom. Kenny does not deserve to have left like he did. At least in his honour and memory, let something right emerge.”
Lejaka from Thaba Nchu in the Free State joined BSA as its CEO in 2016 and left the organisation in August 2020, a year before the expiry of his five-year contract.
