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Parliament has ordered the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee to submit its financial statements within the next seven days.
The Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and Culture and the Select Committee on Education, Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture raised deep concerns about SASCOC’s inability to produce its financial statements during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
At the virtual meeting, SASCOC presented its annual performance plan, which did not include performance targets, indicators and the current financial report.
The sports committees’ chairpersons questioned the stability and accountability of SASCOC whether it could perform its functions.
“A mere few months to the postponed 2021 Olympics Games in Japan, yet the entity does not have a CEO and a CFO. How can there be stability and accountability,” the committees asked.
The chairpersons of the committees said they were concerned that the board failed to do the basic things such as
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