{"id":45120,"date":"2026-09-10T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45120"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:23:19","slug":"sascoc-president-suspended-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sascoc-president-suspended-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"SASCOC President suspended with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The President of the South African Sports Confederation, Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SASCOC), Barry Hendricks, has been suspended with immediate effect.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The decision to suspend the head of SA&#8217;s umbrella sport body was taken after an investigation following anonymous complaints submitted to the SASCOC Board relating to breaches of the Committee\u2019s Safeguarding Policy and Codes Handbook.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Retired Judge Basheer Waglay investigated the complaints and recommended that there was enough prima facie evidence to warrant referral to the SASCOC Judicial Body for further action.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>First Vice-President, Lwandile Simelane, will perform the functions of the president in the interim to ensure continuity and organisational stability.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40685,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-45120","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Retired Judge Basheer Waglay investigated the complaints.","published_date":"","news_description":"Retired Judge Basheer Waglay investigated the complaints.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45120","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\/45120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45121,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45120\/revisions\/45121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}