LETTER: Sports officials look after themselves first

I read that Hendrick Mokganyetsi, as chair of the athletics commission, acknowledges that Team South Africa’s athletics team were let down by poor preparation and support at the world championships in Budapest recently.

I will wager that there is never a problem when it involves the remuneration of sports administrators. I saw this with my own eyes in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) in 2002 when a junior soccer team were showing off their ability a day before Bafana Bafana played. The administrators were more concerned with satisfying their appetites at a local Spur instead of attending the game, and weren’t interested in having the TV on either.

Sadly, ubuntu is just folklore.

Tony Ball

Gillitts

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