Shakes Mashaba’s disciplinary hearing will now be heard next week after the South African Football Association (Safa) and the suspended Bafana Bafana coach agreed to postpone it to December 1. Mashaba was meant to go before his employer’s disciplinary committee on Tuesday‚ but the date was not suitable to both parties. He will now learn his fate at the beginning of December and is expected to be sacked by Safa at the conclusion of the proceedings. Asked to elaborate on the latest development on Wednesday‚ Safa communications head Dominic Chimhavi said he could not comment on an internal labour matter. Mashaba was suspended last Sunday after he furiously wagged his finger at senior Safa officials — who included president Danny Jordaan‚ CEO Dennis Mumble‚ national executive committee members and other senior Safa employees — after Bafana beat Senegal 2-1 in a 2018 World Cup qualifier, at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane 24 hours earlier. He accused them all of not supporting him,...

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