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South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) board member Ray Mali said Athletics South Africa's (ASA) suspended staff members had gracefully allowed South Africa's Olympic governing body take over administration of the federation...
Tags: ASA, Ray Mali, Sascoc, Athletics South Africa, Leonard Chuene, suspended figures, Sweden, Åsa, N2U, A£ᄍᆪa, Agremiaᅢ댃o Sportiva Arapiraquense, Caster Semenya, Mali, Asa of Judah
In a surprise move South Africa’s Olympic governing body, Sascoc, has suspended Athletics South Africa (ASA) president Leonard Chuene, the board of ASA and its members “with immediate effect pending the outcome of a disciplinary investigation and further...
Tags: Caster Semenya, Athletics South Africa, athlete south, Leonard Chuene, ASA, president leonard, south african, track chief, gender test, olympic committee
The African National Congress (ANC) task team probing the mishandling of the gender-verification process of 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya will hand the matter over to the Sports Ministry for further investigation, the ANC said on Thursday. "We think...
Tags: Caster Semenya, Leonard Chuene, ANC, Athletics South Africa, gender verification
In a bombshell report the doctor of the South African athletics team, Harold Adams, has accused Athletics South Africa (ASA) boss Leonard Chuene of deliberately politicising and sowing confusion in the Caster Semenya gender test saga. Read the report...
Tags: Caster Semenya, South African, Lamine Diack, Leonard Chuene, Harold Adams
South Africa boss Leonard Chuene survived two attempts to dethrone him over the weekend. Two small groups within the ASA tried to garner support to pass motions of no confidence in his under- siege leadership. First, it was the much publicised Saturday...
Tags: Athletics South Africa, Leonard Chuene, ASA, Pretoria
Julius Malema on Thursday threatened to "mobilise society" against Nedbank following a decision to withdraw its sponsorship from Athletics SA (ASA). "Let them withdraw...Are they sponsoring Leonard Chuene or are they sponsoring athletics in South Africa?"...
Tags: Julius Malema, Caster Semenya, Nedbank, Leonard Chuene, Athletics South Africa, gender tests, loses sponsoring
ASA president Leonard Chuene was given a unanimous vote of confidence at an ASA special general meeting in Kempton Park on Thursday, despite numerous calls for his resignation. The party described the decision by ASA as "unfortunate and not helpful at...
Tags: Leonard Chuene, ASA, Athletics South Africa, Caster Semenya, Sweden, Åsa
Congress of SA Trade Union (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said that his present term, ending in 2012, would be his last. "It has been a long, long time comrades... I cannot stay forever," he said at the trade union's conference in Midrand.
Tags: trade union, Leonard Chuene, Sweden, Åsa
Chuene will not lose his job as Athletics South Africa president after admitting he had lied about gender tests performed on world 800m champion Caster Semenya, the federation’s spokesperson said. After a six-hour ASA council meeting behind closed doors...
Tags: Leonard Chuene, ASA, Athletics South Africa council, asa leadership, expressed confidence, athletics chief, gender test, current asa, Johannesburg Emergency Management Services, unanimously expressed, Sweden, Åsa
23 September 2009 Linda Moreotsene IN A startling development to the Caster Semenya story, the board of Athletics South Africa did not stop Leonard Chuene from resigning as ASA president. This sharply clarifies the impression created by reports in the...
Tags: Leonard Chuene, Caster Semenya, ASA Board, Athletics South Africa, athlete south, Sweden, Åsa