Cricket South Africa (CSA) president Mtutuzeli Nyoka was ousted for the second time in eight months when the board of directors passed a vote of no confidence at a special general meeting Saturday. The decision, which a statement said was by an overwhelming majority, was the culmination of a battle which has raged for more than a year between Nyoka and chief executive Gerald Majola over bonuses paid to the latter.
Nyoka was an outspoken critic of Majola but the board and its provincial affiliates have consistently backed the chief executive despite a forensic audit report which found that Majola had breached South Africa's Companies Act on four occasions.
The auditors found Majola had received bonus payments totalling R4.15-million (525,000 dollars) over a 13-month period to May 2010, some unauthorised by the board. The ongoing controversy has made CSA the target of public and media criticism and the organisation is without sponsorship for the current Twenty20 and one-day international series against Australia and for two of the three major domestic competitions.
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