‘Saddest day in Safa’s history’
‘Saddest day in Safa’s history’
Posted: 2009-09-28 14:11
Former Safa president Molefi Oliphant has described the weekend’s executive elections where Kirsten Nematandani was elected as his successor as ‘the saddest day in the history of Safa’.
“I’m disappointed and saddened by the way this meeting was conducted,” he told BuaNews, adding that if members of the executive had issues they needed to come to the table and resolve them sooner.
“I think we have to meet sooner and resolve whatever issues between the executive members for the best of our football and the country’s image in the international soccer fraternity.”
Nematandani was surprisingly elected unopposed during the associations 10-hour AGM after 2010 LOC Chief Executive Officer Danny Jordaan and Chairman Irvin Khoza withdrew from the presidential race.
Jordaan’s eligibility to contest the election had been questioned by the Premier Soccer League on the basis that his position as Chief Executive Officer of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) was that of a paid official of Safa, thus he was constitutionally ineligible for the presidency.
Jordaan’s faction, known as the Football Transformation Forum, argued that Khoza should be declared ineligible by virtue of his standing as the PSL’s vice-president appointee, which forbids him to be Safa president.
A panel of experts was then tasked with making findings and recommendations to the electoral officer for consideration however Safa’s senior council decided to proceed with the elections after the two announced their withdrawal which left Nematandani as the sole candidate.
Safa spokesperson Morio Sanyane said that Khoza and Jordaan withdrew voluntarily for other technical reasons.
“They both also pulled out voluntarily after the electoral officer, independent judge and the senior counsel recommended that the issue of eligibility must be referred to the arbitrary.”
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