Corporate Information

AFFILIATION

The SWDCB is associated to the United Cricket Board of SA and shall accept such responsibilities and conditions as such affiliation entails.

OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES

Objectives of the SWD Cricket Board (SWDCB)

To further and protect the interest of cricket in the SWD.
To govern and to make by-laws, rules and regulations governing, regulating and controlling cricket under the jurisdiction of the Board, and to add to, repeal, or after such by-laws, rules and regulations and to enforce the carrying out of the same.
To determine the rules conditions of play to which affiliated teams must adhere to when competing against one another in competition as arranged by the SWDCB.
To manage and administrate cricket in the SWD.
To settle disputes arising between members and bodies of persons connected directly or indirectly with cricket within the jurisdiction of the Board.
To distribute monies to its members for the protection, promotion and advancement of cricket.
To actively strive towards a situation where the resources for the playing of cricket are accessible to all persons desirous of playing cricket on an equal basis and strive to fulfil the UCBSA Transformation Policy.
To uplift the corporate image of cricket in the province.
To promote, advance, administer, coordinate and generally encourage the game of cricket in the SWD.

Principles

The Board is founded on the following principles:

A general unity of purpose and action by members of the Board.
Mutual Respect
Respect and recognition of penalties laid down by members of the Board
Adherence to the general principles contained in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa

Boundaries

The geographical area (as determined by the United Cricket Board Africa - UCB) of the SWDCB stretches from Swellendam and Ladismith in the west to Plettenberg Bay and Uniondale in the east and Murraysburg in the north. The SWDCB will apply the boundaries as determined by the UCB and those of USSASA.

Membership

The SWDCB consist of the following members:

Affiliated clubs within its boundaries
Duly affiliated sub-unions, associations, or bodies which have received sanction from the board to carry on under the control of the Board upon such conditions as may from time to time be approved by the Board.
These are:
1. SWD Cricket Umpires Association
2. SWD Scorers Association
3. SWDUSSA Youth Cricket
4. SWD Women's Cricket Association
5. SWD Cricket for the Disabled

Administration of the Board

The affairs of the Board is administrated subject to the control of the Council, by the Executive Committee and managed by a full-time appointed General Manager and staff.

The Executive Committee shall comprise of the following persons:
1. President
2. Honorary Life-Members
3. Vice-president
4. Secretary
5. Treasurer
6. Match Secretary
7. Two (2) Additional Members
8. General Manager
The following members/bodies are co-opted to the Executive Committee, do not have voting rights and are not taking into consideration with the determination of a quorum for the Executive Committee meeting:
1. SWD Cricket Umpires Association
2. SWD Scorers Association
3. SWDUSSA Youth Cricket
4. SWD Women's Cricket Association
5. SWD Cricket for the Disabled
The Executive Committee may constitute such other committees, as it may deem necessary or recommended by Council for the proper performance of its functions.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Cricket in the South Western Districts was managed and administered by two bodies in the pre - apartheid era.

The South Cape Cricket Union was responsible for cricket in the white community while the South Western Districts Cricket Board managed cricket in the black community.

The amalgamation of these two entities in 1991 unified the organisation of cricket in the region.