SA risk Fifa ban

president Kirsten Nematandani to Zurich for a meeting with Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke around the match-fixing controversy relating to Bafana Bafana’s matches in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup. In that meeting the three parties agreed that an independent judicial commission of enquiry would be set-up by the SA government.

The mandate of this judicial investigation would be limited to matters related to the case of irregularities related to friendly matches of Safa in the build-up to the 2010 Fifa World Cup. Additionally, Fifa proposed that one of the members of the Commission be Michael Garcia, the chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Fifa Ethics Committee.

Subsequent to that feisty Mbalula has been on a warpath extensively being quoted as saying the commission would be set-up in SA terms.
A parliamentary sport portfolio was this week quoted as saying a full-scale investigation into all Safa affairs should be launched. — SuperSport.

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