With international cricket now restored to the Wanderers, the healing needs to begin.
In the weeks ahead, Cricket South Africa and the Gauteng Cricket Board will seek to rebuild trust and establish firmer structures regarding governance, transformation and stadium-hosting agreements.
The Wanderers, described on Wednesday by CSA president Dr Mtutuzeli Nyoka as the "Mecca of South African cricket", has had three matches against England - a Twenty20 international (November 13), the first ODI (November 20) and the fourth Test starting on January 14 2010 - restored.
The terms of the settlement agreement reached following a fortnight of mediation conducted by lawyers Brian Currin and Khabo Mamba, who had been appointed by the Ministry of Sport, outlines a raft of changes that need to be made to the Gauteng Cricket Board. Those pertain mainly to representivity.
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Among those are the composition of the new board which must have 50% representivity from previously disadvantaged clubs, the establishment of a "change-management committee" to oversee constitutional reform, the creation of a transformation charter and the addressing of issues regarding hosting rights.
The dispute started when the Gauteng Cricket Board asked to see the contract between CSA and the Indian Premier League, which the GCB claimed violated the rights of its suite holders.
They also claimed they had not been given an opportunity to see the contract.
On Wednesday, GCB chairman Barry Skjoldhammer expressed his "satisfaction" with how his organisation's requests, contained in a letter to CSA's audit committee on July 4, had been handled.
"We are satisfied with the terms of the things that we asked for and that they have all been addressed."
Skjoldhammer added that the GCB stood to have lost in the region of R40 million if the matches had been moved.
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