{"id":22087,"date":"2013-08-23T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mbalula-needs-to-intervene-in-athletics-south-africa-issues\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:43:14","slug":"mbalula-needs-to-intervene-in-athletics-south-africa-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mbalula-needs-to-intervene-in-athletics-south-africa-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbalula needs to intervene in Athletics South Africa issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=14339\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14339\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14339\" alt=\"Worry: Dan Moyo, ex-SA Sports Commission CEO. Photo: Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/66aa2_704388_361801.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worry: Dan Moyo, ex-SA Sports Commission CEO. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Former Olympic committee chief Dan Moyo urged Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula to intervene in athletics\u2019 boardroom shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo described the infighting at Athletics South Africa as an embarrassment to the country, saying athletes were the ones who were suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world championship in Russia, which ended on Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/cronje-makes-history-in-moscow-by-claiming-first-medal-for-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\">exposed us badly after Team SA came back home with only one medal<\/a>,\u201d said a concerned Moyo yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear there is an urgent need for Mbalula to intervene because I\u2019m worried that we may not even have athletes qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow these shenanigans to go on because athletics has been one of the flagships of SA sport since our return to the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future does not look bright for athletics unless there is a serious and urgent intervention by our government. Athletics does not belong to any one individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to boxing, Moyo said: \u201cAiba [the International Boxing Association] has now banned South Africa from competing at all official competitions. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/boxing-south-africa-on-the-ropes\/\" target=\"_blank\">It is clear we are having a serious problems in some sporting codes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a tendency by certain administrators to write letters to their sports\u2019 world-governing bodies when things don\u2019t go their way here at home. 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Photo: Gallo Images Former Olympic committee chief Dan Moyo urged Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula to intervene in athletics\u2019 boardroom shenanigans. Moyo described the infighting at Athletics South Africa as an embarrassment to the country, saying athletes were the ones who were suffering. \u201cThe world championship in Russia, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}