Tafic Heads To Arbitration Tribunal Over Relegation
Monday, July 27, 2020
The matter is before the association’s arbitration tribunal The Monitor Sport has learnt.
The seven member BFA tribunal deals with all internal disputes within the association, its members, players, officials and player agents, apart from issues under the jurisdiction of the Disciplinary Committee or the Ethics Committee. Its decisions are final and binding and can only be appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. TAFIC initially wrote to the BFA National Executive Committee (NEC) demanding that the association reverses its decision (to relegate the team). In their letter to the BFA TAFIC had also pleaded with the BFA NEC to place the matter before the BFA Disciplinary Committee (DC) for a hearing.
While it is widely acknowledged that Khama holds the title of Kgosi, the government’s failure to properly gazette his recognition has raised serious concerns about adherence to legal procedures and the credibility of traditional leadership. (See a story elsewhere in this newspaper.) Recent court documents by the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Kgotla Autlwetse, shed light on the intricacies of Khama’s recognition process....