Balfour outlines BSA plans
Boxing SA want to establish direct links with overseas associations "to ease the monopolies” of local promoters.
The chairman of the organisation’s board, Ngconde Balfour, said on Friday many of the agreements and relations between some of the most prominent SA promoters were of a traditional nature.
“We are not attempting to block long-standing relationships," he said after a BSA meeting in Boksburg.
"But at the same we feel that if organisations like the IBF, WBC, IBO, WBA, WBF, WBO and others deal directly with BSA it would be in the best interests of SA boxing as a whole."
He said the board had adopted a five-year strategic plan, running from this year to 2017, to restructure SA boxing.
"We at the BSA aim to do all the underwater work to achieve the kind of favourable impression that SA boxing enjoyed in the past.
"The welfare of the boxers is at the centre of the plan, and we will do everything to ensure they and all other stakeholders receive a fair deal."
Balfour said negotiations with the SABC were at an advanced and ongoing stage, in addition to those with all other media and television organisations.
"It is essential that boxing receives full exposure in our plan to revive the sport. This can only be done with the cooperation of the electronic and written media."
The board had put in place various committees to ensure an effective administration. These were an audit committee, a management committee, a sanctioning and approval committee, a ratings committee and a medical commission.
In this way, matters such as the sanctioning of tournaments, rankings, disciplinary actions and the suitability of fights
involving local and overseas fighters would be scrutinised.
Board members would also visit all the provincial associations to explain the plans and proposals, Balfour said.