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Cape Town - Cricket South Africa (CSA) has paid tribute to Professor Kader Asmal, who died on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack.
"He had a passionate love for sport and particularly for cricket," commented CSA CEO Gerald Majola.
"He served on the national executive of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) and, in spite of his commitments to the Government from 1994 onwards as a senior Cabinet Minister, he did a lot of significant work for cricket.
"This involved serving on both the Transformation Monitoring Committee and the Franchise Review Committee.
"Perhaps his greatest contribution was the work he did with the then Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel to recognise sports that had credible development programmes and allow them to get tax rebates so that the money could be ploughed back into amateur and grassroots level sport.
"He seldom if ever missed a game involving the Proteas at Newlands particularly when it came to Test matches and we have always valued the wonderful support he has given us.
"On a personal note I will miss him and always appreciate the wise advice he gave me in many areas of cricket."
Professor Asmal was also a qualified umpire and one of his major concerns was to strengthen amateur cricket at all levels as he felt that the professional game could never get strong without a sound amateur structure behind it as well.
CSA flags will fly at half-mast on Thursday in a sign of respect.
"He had a passionate love for sport and particularly for cricket," commented CSA CEO Gerald Majola.
"He served on the national executive of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) and, in spite of his commitments to the Government from 1994 onwards as a senior Cabinet Minister, he did a lot of significant work for cricket.
"This involved serving on both the Transformation Monitoring Committee and the Franchise Review Committee.
"Perhaps his greatest contribution was the work he did with the then Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel to recognise sports that had credible development programmes and allow them to get tax rebates so that the money could be ploughed back into amateur and grassroots level sport.
"He seldom if ever missed a game involving the Proteas at Newlands particularly when it came to Test matches and we have always valued the wonderful support he has given us.
"On a personal note I will miss him and always appreciate the wise advice he gave me in many areas of cricket."
Professor Asmal was also a qualified umpire and one of his major concerns was to strengthen amateur cricket at all levels as he felt that the professional game could never get strong without a sound amateur structure behind it as well.
CSA flags will fly at half-mast on Thursday in a sign of respect.
