Safa are so synonymous with scandal, you’d swear Safa House was Nkandla

“Subsequent to your letter of March 6 2018, the commission became cognisant of unresolved matters within Safa with respect to these elections and has henceforth withdrawn its consent to provide the requested assistance. We shall accordingly communicate this new decision to Mr Mumble,” reads part of a letter signed by IEC chairman Vuma Mashinini, sent to attorneys for Ace Ncobo, the man challenging Jordaan. Jordaan could have won the election at any stage, without having to slant the playing field and move the goalposts, and change their relative sizes, for his team, which it increasingly appears he has tried to do. So why go about it in this manner? That sort of Mafioso approach is worrying, and raises questions about whether this is the man to run SA football.

Jordaan will do well to remember these words of a Welsh saying: “In the absence of that which I am not, that which I am cannot exist.” Go figure.

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