Sexwale to meet SAFA over Fifa campaign

FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale will meet senior South African Football Association (Safa) officials today for an “update” amid reports that the millionaire businessman’s home federation is frustrated over his lacklustre campaign.
Safa denied, however, that it will ask Sexwale to withdraw from the Fifa election at that meeting.
Today’s meeting with Safa’s emergency committee is “to ask the Fifa candidate to give us an update,” Safa spokesman Dominic Chimhavi said.
“Contrary to some media reports, he’s not being summoned to be asked to withdraw.”
Safa president Danny Jordaan, the organisation’s three vice-presidents and chief executive Dennis Mumble will be at the meeting, Chimhavi said.
Chimhavi’s comments followed a statement late on Sunday from Mumble saying the request for a meeting was not questioning the “viability or otherwise of Mr Sexwale’s candidacy”.
Still, Sexwale, a former political prisoner during apartheid and now a hugely successful businessman, has largely failed to make an impression during his Fifa campaign.
The only African candidate in the five-man field, Sexwale has not even been publicly backed by the African soccer confederation and it’s considered unlikely that he will get a pledge of support from the confederation at its executive committee meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, this Friday. — Sport24