Khoza calls for calm as rape case link denied

PREMIER Soccer League (PSL) chairman Irvin Khoza has indicated that he did not want a war in football sparked by the allegations that were made against him by South African Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan.

Khoza called a press conference at the PSL offices on Thursday last week to refute allegations amidst a case opened by Jordaan with the police of defamation‚ criminal collusion and conspiracy against the PSL chairman.

Allegations were made that Khoza was the catalyst in a rape case opened against the Safa president last month by singer and former ANC MP Jennifer Ferguson.

Ferguson‚ who lives in Sweden‚ laid the rape complaint with the South African Police Services (SAPS) in Parkview last month.

Allegations were that Khoza had paid for Ferguson’s flights and accommodation to South Africa through a third party.

Jordaan‚ however‚ has apparently been caught offside as evidence has since emerged that he allegedly used “falsified documentation” to open the case of defamation.

Ferguson has produced documents to show that her true previously anonymous donor for her trip to SA to open her rape case was an Mpumalanga-based non-governmental organisation‚ The Forgotten Angle Theatre Company‚ via Swedish travel agent Big Travel.

As Jordaan’s allegations have apparently been debunked the entire affair still threatens to plunge SA football into a state of war‚ and jeopardise the crucial thawing in relations and greater cooperation that had been seen over the past few years between Safa and the PSL. —