THURSDAY is D-Day for South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan, who is expected to be installed as mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.Mr Jordaan’s election as mayor is part of an attempt by the African National Congress (ANC) to hold onto the hotly contested metro, which the party came close to losing in the 2011 local elections.But his installation could have a shadow cast over it by Wednesday’s allegations that the 2010 Fifa World Cup, which he successfully lobbied for, could have been tainted.No South African has been implicated in the scandal so far.Opposition parties said on Wednesday they would not attend Thursday’s meeting, calling it an ANC rally.They also hope that the ANC caucus is so divided that some of its councillors will either not show up at Thursday’s meeting or will not vote for Mr Jordaan when the election takes place.The ANC needs a 61-councillor majority to make a quorum.On Wednesday, ANC councillors turned up at the party’s caucus meeting a...
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