{"id":13058,"date":"2025-10-17T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-netball-president-cecilia-molokwane-resumes-duties-after-suspension\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:10","slug":"sa-netball-president-cecilia-molokwane-resumes-duties-after-suspension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-netball-president-cecilia-molokwane-resumes-duties-after-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Netball President Cecilia Molokwane resumes duties after suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Suspended Netball South Africa (SA) President, Cecilia Molokwane, is resuming her responsibilities after six months. World Netball suspended Molokwane from all netball activities on April 15 2025, pending an investigation into allegations of misuse of resources and financial mismanagement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Molokwane believes her suspension was a smear campaign orchestrated by some people within the Council of Netball SA and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">She returned to Netball SA after resigning as a member of World Netball, leaving the organisation with no authority over her case.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">\u201cI\u2019m resuming office with immediate effect. I stood back because I wanted kids to play netball, I did not want anybody to be suspended. I\u2019m going back to my office. I\u2019m no longer a member of World Netball; they don\u2019t have power over me. I\u2019m an elected president of Netball SA by the Council of Netball SA and Africa Netball. So I have just resumed office now, I\u2019m the president of Netball SA,\u201d said Molokwane.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13059,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13058","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Molokwane believes her suspension was a smear campaign orchestrated by some people within the Council of Netball SA and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.||Molokwane believes her suspension was a smear campaign orchestrated by some people within the Council of Netball SA and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13058\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}