Great news for the running community is that popular East London runner, Mkhululi Jack, has been fully exonerated in his disciplinary hearing appeal decision. On the other hand, Border Athletics (BORA) were severely chastised and came in for scathing criticism from Selby Thabethe who chaired the Disciplinary Committee on behalf of Athletics South Africa (ASA).
The nine page document, which is available below, finds fault with every aspect of BORA’s approach, states that they acted in “bad faith”, broke almost every procedural and governance principal, were “defective” in every argument and action, made a critical constitutional breach, lacked substantial fairness and inferred that they had applied the “no earphones” rules incorrectly and inconsistently when compared with every other athletics province.
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