Newly elected Athletics South Africa (ASA) President Aleck Skhosana has dismissed claims that this is a SASCOC imposed executive. Skhosana was responding to claims made by one of the unsuccessful candidates that the Olympic body had been circulating the names of people who should be voted into power. Skhosana got 31 votes ahead of Sello Mokoena with eight, Steve Mkasi with seven and former President James Evans with four. Skhosana stopped short of saying these were sour grapes... Mokoena who previously held a chairperson role in the Interim board earlier this year and was the darling of the media coming to these elections also poured cold water to the claims of SASCOC involvement in these elections... Mkasi, Skhosana and Mokoena were the three presidential candidates who attended the elections congress on Saturday at the SASCOC house but Evans opted not to attend. Mkasi says theirs is to ensure that there's transparency at ASA and that these claims of SASCOC influence are unfounded... IAAF representative Cheikh Thiare who has been instrumental in resolving the squabbles between the ASA leaders has also paid tribute to the outgoing AD-HOC committee led by Daan Du Toit that ran this sport for the past three months... The past two executives at ASA couldn't finish their terms due differences and allegations of maladministration. This new executive will only serve two years in office and Skhosana knows that for stability purposes it will be important that they finish their term... After months of impeachment, fights in court, funds that went missing, ASA is in dire financial constraints owing a lot of people. Skhosana says whilst they know that some steps have to be taken to resolve that, they will desist from going on a witch-hunt that could further divide the organization... The first two major assignments for ASA is to prepare athletes for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland next month and the Youth Olympics in China in August. Thiare also pleaded with the newly elected ASA executive to be inclusive in their running of the organization and for those who lost not to make things difficult for those in power... Caption: Jacques Freitag Visit our website http://www.sabc.co.za Visit our mobile site http://m.sabc.co.za Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SABCPortal Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/SABCPortal

• published: 10 Jun 2014
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