WEDNESDAY, 10.45AM:
ATHLETICS South Africa (ASA) secretary general Banele Sindani claims that he is not a racist and challenged top coach JP van der Merwe to make public a telephone conversation alleging that he called van der Merwe a “white trash and a racist”.
“I’m calling him a liar and I don’t care wether that’s libelous or not. I have nothing to hide and if I’m proven I will apologise. But if the contrary is true, I demand he make an apology,” said an angry Sindani.
Van der Merwe — Hezekiel Sepeng’s coach – claimed that he was in possesion of a taped telephone conversation between himself and Sindani where Sindani called him “White trash”. This all happened after van der Merwe wrote a letter to a weekly newspaper accusing ASA of not financially looking after their athletes.