There was drama and an air of despair when attending SA sports dignitaries and were informed that SA Football Association vice-president Ria Ledwaba could not attend her presidential manifesto launch on Tuesday morning.
Last week, Safa CEO Tebogo Motlanthe warned the nominated candidates in a letter not to jump the gun by starting to canvass ahead of the presidential elections next month. Motlanthe’s letter says that members who were nominated cannot present themselves to the public before the final list of nominees has been approved by the governance committee.
Some of the members who have seen the letter regard the move as a way to halt the progress of other nominees, with only a few weeks to go before the polls. The recently-appointed governance committee’s task is to screen all the nominated candidates, including Jordaan, ensuring they tick all the boxes to be eligible to run, and only then they will be vetted to stand in the presidential elections. Motlanthe must release the names of the vetted candidates 14 days before the elections. aimed at entrenching Jordaan and the current national executive committee in place.
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