OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.00pm.
DISGRACED former Premier Soccer League chief Joe Ndhlela is facing more trouble as the PSL is laying fraud charges against him for allegedly unlawful use of a PSL credit card after he was axed by the organisation.
The Star reported on Thursday that that it is in posession of documents showing details of mileage and rental dates of several vehicles that the disgraced official allegedly hired several weeks after being dismissed for misconduct.
The Johannesburg daily said that documents in its possession show that Ndhlela used an Avis credit card to hire two Mercedes-Benz C200 sedans at Johannesburg airport on April 25.
On May 12 Ndhlela used the same credit card to hire an Audi A4, driving it for 1423km, the total bill of R12707 being charged to the PSL’s account.
Ndhlela’s attorney, Mafika Sihlali claimed, however, that Ndhlela hired the cars while he was still employed by the PSL. Sihlali also dismissed reports that Ndhlela withdrew a case of unfair suspension and dismissal at the Labour Court.
Sihlali said that Ndhlela has lodged a case with the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration against his dismissal, with the hearing taking place on Thursday.
Sources said that Ndhlela wants the PSL — which will be represented at the hearing by Wits University director Ronnie Schloss — to reinstate him.
Ndhlela was suspended by the PSL board of governors on December 1, 1999 for bringing the organisation and the sport into disrepute after he was arrested a day earlier for charges of corruption and fraud related to his previous position as a senior executive at Transnet.
Even before his arrest on the Transnet charges, Ndhlela was already the subject of an internal probe regarding possible financial irregularities in the PSL.