By ZINGISA MVUMVU
The net seems to be closing in on Andile Sidinile now that Eastern Cape Boxing Promoters Association (ECBPA) chairman Ayanda Matiti has said the Sijuta Promotions boss is on his own.
Sidinile, the association’s former secretary-general, may also be facing possible exclusion from the association.
Matiti’s stance comes as allegations of fraud and non-payment of boxers against Sidinile continue.
According to Matiti, the ECBPA resolved at their recent AGM that it was not in the business of defending promoters who fail to live up to their end of the obligation to pay boxers who compete in their events.
The ECBPA, said Matiti, will allow due processes to take their course on the fraud allegation against Sidinile but no investigation was being conducted by them because “we have not sanctioned any alleged fraud as an association so we cannot be implicated”.
The net is closing in on Sidinile after he allegedly forged the signature of a senior government official in a sponsorship letter for his tournament in line with the University of Fort Hare’s centenary celebrations held on May 22 in East London. In the letter, Sidinile claimed to have secured financial backing to the tune of R1-million from the department of sport, recreation, arts and culture (DSRAC).
But DSRAC denied having promised him money and boxers who fought in the tournament are yet to be paid their purse-monies.
Matiti, outlining the resolutions of ECBPA’s recent AGM, said yesterday: “We do not screen intentions of our members when they are staging a bill to be able to tell whether they have good or bad intentions.
“But we do not object for our members to be subjected to processes because, for instance, when Handi was subjected to a Boxing SA disciplinary hearing for non-payment of boxers, we released him from the association and the same applies here .
“We read in the media about the alleged fraud against the former SG and the non-payment of boxers, which we condemn with the strongest possible words,” he said.
Matiti added that ECBPA’s core business was development of the sport and therefore “we will never support any promoter who has not paid boxers”.
Sidinile confirmed to the Dispatch yesterday that boxers such as Simpiwe Vetyeka and Xolisani “Nomeva” Ndongeni, who fought in his controversial May 22 tournament, had not been paid.
“We are waiting for money,” he said – without saying where the money was going to come from and before saying that he was not prepared to comment further.
At the association’s AGM which elected the new executive last month, Sidinile did not run for re-election to his post of secretary-general, a position currently held by Max Mabuti.
His decision not to run, he said, was solely on the basis of giving others the opportunity to lead and was not related to the fraud allegations he is facing, which the Hawks are now probing. — zingisam@dispatch.co.za
Sidinile in tight fix as fight body backs out
The net seems to be closing in on Andile Sidinile now that Eastern Cape Boxing Promoters Association (ECBPA) chairman Ayanda Matiti has said the Sijuta Promotions boss is on his own.
Sidinile, the association’s former secretary-general, may also be facing possible exclusion from the association.
Matiti’s stance comes as allegations of fraud and non-payment of boxers against Sidinile continue.
According to Matiti, the ECBPA resolved at their recent AGM that it was not in the business of defending promoters who fail to live up to their end of the obligation to pay boxers who compete in their events.
The ECBPA, said Matiti, will allow due processes to take their course on the fraud allegation against Sidinile but no investigation was being conducted by them because “we have not sanctioned any alleged fraud as an association so we cannot be implicated”.
The net is closing in on Sidinile after he allegedly forged the signature of a senior government official in a sponsorship letter for his tournament in line with the University of Fort Hare’s centenary celebrations held on May 22 in East London. In the letter, Sidinile claimed to have secured financial backing to the tune of R1-million from the department of sport, recreation, arts and culture (DSRAC).
But DSRAC denied having promised him money and boxers who fought in the tournament are yet to be paid their purse-monies.
Matiti, outlining the resolutions of ECBPA’s recent AGM, said yesterday: “We do not screen intentions of our members when they are staging a bill to be able to tell whether they have good or bad intentions.
“But we do not object for our members to be subjected to processes because, for instance, when Handi was subjected to a Boxing SA disciplinary hearing for non-payment of boxers, we released him from the association and the same applies here .
“We read in the media about the alleged fraud against the former SG and the non-payment of boxers, which we condemn with the strongest possible words,” he said.
Matiti added that ECBPA’s core business was development of the sport and therefore “we will never support any promoter who has not paid boxers”.
Sidinile confirmed to the Dispatch yesterday that boxers such as Simpiwe Vetyeka and Xolisani “Nomeva” Ndongeni, who fought in his controversial May 22 tournament, had not been paid.
“We are waiting for money,” he said – without saying where the money was going to come from and before saying that he was not prepared to comment further.
At the association’s AGM which elected the new executive last month, Sidinile did not run for re-election to his post of secretary-general, a position currently held by Max Mabuti.
His decision not to run, he said, was solely on the basis of giving others the opportunity to lead and was not related to the fraud allegations he is facing, which the Hawks are now probing. — zingisam@dispatch.co.za
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