Danny still in Safa hot seat

Danny Jordaan (below) was controversially elected on Saturday for a second term as president of the South African Football Association.

Safa said Jordaan got 95.12% of the votes, or 234 of 246 votes, but he was ultimately elected unopposed, with Ace Ncobo pulling out before a vote was cast at the Sandton Convention Centre.

“It (the elective congress) is illegal,” Ncobo told reporters as he walked out of the elections.

“I thought by registering its illegality we would entertain and discuss this. On top of that I received threats, there is a delegate who threatened to punch my face. I don’t feel safe, I have to leave.”

Ncobo has continually accused Safa of flouting its own statutes in the build up to the election, but Jordaan denied there was any illegality to Saturday’s proceedings.

“You guys must stop it, it is absolute nonsense,” he said.

“We have in this room an electoral committee, some of these men are senior advocates, who have acted as judges in the supreme courts of this country. In this room we have representatives of Fifa. So you listen to whose opinion you want to – a supreme court judge’s opinion, a Fifa representatives opinion, or an opinion not based on anything.”

Jordaan goes into a second term under a cloud away from football, with Jennifer Ferguson laying a criminal charge of rape against him. Ferguson alleged in October last year that Jordaan had raped her in a Port Elizabeth hotel 24 years earlier, and she followed that up in March 2018 by laying a criminal charge of rape at the Parkview police station in Johannesburg.

Jordaan responded to the criminal charge in April in a statement from his lawyers Mohlala Attorneys, again denying the allegation.

“We reiterate that Ms Ferguson’s allegations are absolutely unfounded and untrue and that her true motives are deeply suspect,” read a part of the statement.