A LIFE BAN – this is the extreme penalty; consideration should be given to making a life ban compulsory for very serious offences; match fixing or other forms of dishonesty related to match fixing are obvious examples.
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What is the punishment for match-fixing in South Africa?
A LIFE BAN – this is the extreme penalty; consideration should be given to making a life ban compulsory for very serious offences; match fixing or other forms of dishonesty related to match fixing are obvious examples.
Is there match-fixing in soccer?
In the most recent scandal, South Korean footballer Choi-Sung Kuk was found guilty of match fixing in the South Korean K-League and has been banned from football for life by FIFA. Choi also received a 10-month prison sentence—suspended for two years—for an offence of manipulating game results in two matches in 2010.
What football matches fix?
Match fixing is when the outcome of a match in organized sports has been manipulated. The reason for fixing a match includes ensuring a certain team advances or gambling. Match fixing is seen as one of the biggest problems in organized sports and is considered as a major scandal.
Is Hansie Cronje still alive?
June 1, 2002Hansie Cronje / Date of death
Which countries fix matches?
A number of clubs in countries across the world have been subject to match fixing, including Australia, China, and Spain. The South African national team has also been investigated.
Did Cronje fix matches?
Fall Out And Downfall. On April 7th 2000, Delhi police charged Cronje with fixing South Africa’s ODIs against India. He rejected the allegation, and gave a press conference two days later. He said: “I want to make it 100% clear that I deny ever receiving any sum of money during the one-day international series in India …
Did Hansie Cronje’s wife remarry?
A sad chapter in the life of Bertha Cronje, known to the cricket world as the wife of Hansie Cronje, came to an end when she remarried in Durban on Saturday.
Who bribed Hansie Cronje?
Mohammad Azharuddin
Ahead of South Africa’s third test in India in 1996, Mohammad Azharuddin, an Indian middle-order batsman later banned for life, introduced Cronje to Mukesh Gupta. ‘MK’, as he was known, was a bookmaker who gave the South Africa captain $30,000 to convince his team to lose wickets on the final day and lose the match.
Who started match-fixing?
#1 Hansie Cronje-The main man behind the entire match-fixing episode.
Is Bertha Cronje still married?
Did Hansie and Bertha have children?
Hansie Cronje married Bertha Hans on 8 April 1995. They had no children. Hansie’s widow later married Jacques Du Plessis, a financial auditor, in 2003. It was reported that the private ceremony was attended by Hansie’s parents and siblings.
What did Hansie do wrong?
In a national poll in 2004, he was voted the 11th greatest South African of all time. Yet four years earlier he was banned from cricket for accepting money from unlicensed bookmakers for providing information and fixing matches.