Arendse bowled out

Looking back at the sudden and controversial resignation of CSA president Norman Arendse, on Wednesday, Ken Borland wonders just what the controversial Cape Town advocate achieved during his term.

Like a malicious seer in some fantasy movie, Arendse was gathering his forces for a climactic battle in Johannesburg on September 26 when Cricket South Africa was due to hold fresh elections after combining their professional and amateur arms to form a new body. If Arendse hoped to cast aspersions on Nyoka's transformation credentials by roping in his buddy, Butana Komphela, the chair of Parliament's sports portfolio committee but with little understanding of what is happening in sport at grassroots level in this country, then he failed dismally.

Read on in the Mail & Guardian.