Ria Ledwaba 'donated honorarium money to Safa local football associations'

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Ria Ledwaba 'donated honorarium money to Safa local football associations'
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Ria Ledwaba believes the SA Football Association (Safa) national executive committee (NEC) members receiving an honorarium when there was no football due to Covid-19 is totally unwarranted for an association struggling to fund its regions.

“I then chose four LFAs and gave them R25,000 each. It’s money for football, not money for individuals.”She said R100,000 for the 40 NEC members amounts to R4m.

“I said before that if a region gets R35,000 [per month, paid by Safa] they are very lucky. That [the R100,000 amount, multiplied by 40] is R4m — we’re 40 people in the NEC and now we're going to be 47 in the NEC, you can imagine the amount of money that will go to the pockets of individuals and politicians.

“That R4m could have been paid to the 52 regions for two months, but it's in the pockets of individuals — it happened just before the nominations. How can this process be justified by anybody?” Safa’s decision to award more than R20m to 40 members of its NEC as an honorarium has met with controversy. TimesLIVE attempted to reach Safa CEO Motlanthe, who is in Morocco after accompanying Bafana Bafana for Thursday night’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match which they lost, for comment, but he did not answer his cellphone.

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