Unrepentant Safa’s gibberish, gobbledygook and rigmarole

● Last Saturday the South African Football Association (Safa) were cocksure that their elective congress would continue come hell or high water.

Despite crystal-clear warnings that the route to the promised land (elections) was littered with limpet mines, Safa head honchos stubbornly stated that the show would go on (it was set for yesterday).

With astonishing arrogance, they were more confident than Goliath going into battle with David.

But gwiqiqi (suddenly) the chameleon changed its colours as on Tuesday, Safa put a screeching stop to the senseless nonsense they wanted to stage. Suddenly, their confidence tinged with arrogance evaporated like dew under the morning sun.

All their noise turned out to be a lot of gibberish laid on a bed of gobbledygook and spiced with a sprinkle of rigmarole.

The exercise that would have seen Danny Jordaan galloping to victory in a one-horse race, would have amounted to an exercise in futility because Safa would have not adhered to the letter of their own constitution and spirit of their statutes.

The postponement is an unequivocal admission by Safa that theirs was a crocked and crocked mission anchored on a foundation of showing a middle finger to the very rules that govern their body.

What was at play was a display of mob psychology by a group drunk on power.

So powerful they felt, they laboured under the mistaken belief that they could bulldoze their way, snuffing out everyone who dared to flag the folly of their unconstitutional ways. The postponement confirms that chicanery is what they wanted to commit.

They only succeeded in covering themselves in discomfiture when their cloak-and-dagger approach crashed and burned right before their eyes.

In public they pretended all was hunky dory and they were playing by the rules and dismissing legitimate calls on their rubbishing the rules.

In private they were consciously making concessions that they had flouted and altered the selfsame rules of engagement to suit their own nefarious ends.

Theirs was a dirty, stinking smoke-andmirrors game that backfired really badly.

Horrifyingly they remain remorseless and have not once acknowledged their wrongdoing in actively disregarding the dictates of the electoral code, which commands that an electoral committee must be elected at a congress.

Have they no shame or are they so notoriously accustomed to wantonly getting away with murder?

Whispers coming out the Safa House corridors are that the Jesus of Nasrec and his disciples are contemplating May 19 as the new date.

If they continue on that date they would still be falling foul of the rules.

No elective congress can be held without an electoral committee that must be elected in accordance with the electoral code.

More crucially, the electoral code specifies that the electoral committee is elected in an ordinary congress six months before an elective congress, and that this prescribed constitutional imperative provides no room for deviation.

It was disingenuous of Fifa, in their mediatory role, to dispatch Phillip Chiyangwa. He made a mockery of the whole process. Frankly his intervention only served to muddy the waters rather than purify them before making a dash for it.

His clarity of mind must have been clouded by the sunglasses he insists in wearing inside a conference room. His suitability given his close proximity to Jordaan was always going to throw his involvement into question. What a patchy, wacky job he did.

The man who has been a thorn in the flesh of Jordaan and co, Ace Ncobo, is upping the ante. He went to his weapon of choice, Twitter, and posted: “Min of Sport has acknowledge receipt of our petition for a Forensic Investigation into @SAFA_net together with legacy trust and dev agency.”

It would be interesting to see what minister Thokozile Xasa does with that, seeing that her first point of business was to call off the government inquiry into safety and security at soccer stadiums related to the death of two fans at the pre-season Carling Black Label Cup match on July 29, 2017.

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Postponement confirms that chicanery is what they wanted to commit