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October 4, 2000
CAPE TOWN (AP) - The second part of a probe into South Africa's cricket matchfixing scandal has been delayed until early November, Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde Balfour said Tuesday. A commission investigating the matchfixing had been set to resume hearings on Monday, but officials were still busy gathering evidence from India, Balfour told a news conference. Balfour said he hoped the commission would present its final report and recommendations to President Thabo Mbeki and the United Cricket Board around the end of November or beginning of December. "We are on a good wicket to close our innings," he said. Commission evidence leader Shamilla Batoyi told journalists that she had taken formal steps to get documents from Indian police. She visited India last month in what she called a "very, very fruitful and useful" evidence-gathering trip. No exact date for the new hearings has been set, as it was unknown when Indian police could provide the needed documents, she said. Commission chairman retired Judge Edwin King said the period investigated by the commission has been expanded to include events dating from December 1994 instead of from 1996. The matchfixing scandal broke in April after Indian officials said they had tape recordings of South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje's conversations with an Indian bookmaker during the team's tour of the subcontinent earlier this year. Cronje initially denied any wrongdoing, but later told the commission he had taken about dlrs 100,000 from gamblers for providing match information. He was fired as captain in April. |