Former chief executive Haroon Lorgat named in the interim nine-member CSA board

Former chief executive Haroon Lorgat has been named in the Cricket South Africa (CSA) nine-member interim board which will be headed by a former judge from the country’s highest court, South Africa's Minister of Sport Nathi Mthethwa announced on Friday (October 30).



The CSA has been in turmoil for quite some time now and to add more misery, the acting president along with his board members also stepped down from their respective posts on Sunday (October 25).  Zak Yaqoob, whom nelson Mandela appointed to the Constitutional Court in 1998 and served until 2013, will be the chair of the committee. The committee has been given three months to improve governance.



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The president of the South African Cricketers' Association Omphile Ramela will have to relinquish his position to avoid conflict of interest. A cricket historian and former chief executive of the Western Province Cricket Association Andre Odendaal have also been named among the nine.



The other members are Xolani Vonya, who resigned as president of Eastern Cricket Union at the weekend, Stavros Nicolaou, a pharmaceutical expert who has been instrumental in South Africa's fight against Covid-19, Judith February, a governance specialist, Andile Dawn Mbatha, the chief financial officer at the Independent Electoral Commission, and Nkeko Caroline Mampuru, a forensic investigator.