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Elections to go ahead on Saturday despite Fifa agreement

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● The South African Football Association (Safa) appears hellbent on an elective congress by hook or by crook.

In so doing Safa would be pressing ahead with a process peppered with various violations of its own statutes.

Yesterday, Safa issued a press release stating that the elections “will go ahead as agreed by the Safa Congress on Saturday March 24 2018 and no other member, outside or within football, can decide otherwise”.

Safa’s declaration flies in the face of a Fifa-endorsed agreement between it and former referee Ace Ncobo, who flagged various procedural indiscretions committed in preparation for the election.

Chief among Ncobo’s challenges was the fact that Safa statutes stipulate that an Picture: Nic Bothma/EPA