CSA’s Board Chairperson says decision to withdraw Boucher’s charges shouldn’t detract from SJN’s work

Cricket South Africa (CSA) Board Chairperson Lawson Naidoo says CSA’s latest failure, having to withdraw disciplinary charges against Proteas head coach Mark Boucher, should not detract from the work of the Social Justice and Nation Building (SJN) hearings.

Naidoo believes the SJN hearings were vital for cricket to move forward and not have players suffer the structural racism which he believes is mostly in the past.

He says, “Many of the experiences that we heard about at the SJN were from a period ago and a considerable amount of progress has been made since then, which is not to say that there is not an awful lot more to do.

The board of Cricket South Africa has been engaged with the report of the SJN process to try and interweave into the strategic plans that we have for cricket, those issues and those lessons so that we don’t make those mistakes again. As many of the players who came forward to give evidence said they are doing this not for their own sake but to prevent future generations of cricketers from having to endure what they did.”

VIDEO: Naidoo on CSA’s decision to drop charges against Mark Boucher: