Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith has been cleared of racism allegations levelled against him by Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) report.
The report, which was submitted in December last year, made “tentative findings” that Smith had engaged in racially biased and discriminatory behaviour as Proteas captain and subsequently as CSA’s director of cricket.
Those findings were taken to arbitration by CSA and Smith has been cleared of all allegations by two independent advocates, who found there was “no evidentiary basis” that the 41-year-old had engaged in racial discrimination against former team-mate Thami Tsolekile between 2012 and 2014.
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- April 26, 2022
