The South African Football Association uncovered a match-fixing syndicate in the 2016 ABC Motsepe League play-offs. Now an internal report exposes the cheating, names names ahead of a long-delayed criminal trial and shows Safa did not fully follow its own recommendations by failing to make an e.
Regardless of who is elected president of South Africa’s football governing body on 25 June, the issues plaguing the game will persist because the leading candidates are part of the problem.
Former Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba has lambasted the current SA Football Association leadership and gave Ria Ledwaba a shot in her arm by joining her campaign to become Safa president.
There was drama and an air of despair when attenhding SA sports dignitaries were informed that SA Football Association (Safa) vice-president Ria Ledwaba could not attend her presidential manifesto launch on Tuesday morning.