{"id":1951,"date":"2021-01-28T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=88984"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:14:11","slug":"csa-interim-chairperson-asked-to-resign-after-insulting-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/csa-interim-chairperson-asked-to-resign-after-insulting-a-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"CSA interim chairperson asked to resign after insulting a journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cricket South Africa\u2019s (CSA)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> interim Board Chairperson Zak Yacoob was asked to resign after his verbal tirade against a journalist got viral. Reportedly, he insulted the journalist after the journalist wanted him to respond to some allegations against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">South African Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> advised the board member to take over despite an apology from Yakoob.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis decision was made out of an abundance of caution, to safeguard the tremendous work done by the Interim Board, under his stewardship,\u201d Mthetwa said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yakoob reacted angrily and insulted the journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou are a dishonest, irresponsible idiot. You are a rogue and dirty journalist. I prefer not to answer your questions and to air my views when the enquiry comes up,\u201d was among the things Yacoob said in the call with TimesLIVE journalist Tiisetso Malepa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI met the judge and expressed to him my disappointment with how he had conducted himself. I informed him that he would have to go,\u201d Mthethwa told TimesLIVE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLater on, when I met the board, I made it clear that there must be circumspection and [they must be] respectful when dealing with the media,\u201d Mthetwa added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket South Africa\u2019s (CSA) interim Board Chairperson Zak Yacoob was asked to resign after his verbal tirade against a journalist\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1368],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cricket-south-africa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}