Schools football associations continue to kick out at each other
The South African Schools Football Association (Sasfa) will enter into dialogue over a unified schools’ football body only if the SA Football Association (Safa) drops a current High Court appeal‚ Sasfa president Mandla "Shoes" Mazibuko has said. Sasfa called a press conference on the East Rand this week in response to Safa on Friday announcing a Schools Football Interim Committee tasked with establishing a united schools football ruling body. Mazibuko said the new committee represented a "parallel" schools’ body to Sasfa. Sasfa’s conference appeared to be called at least partly as a show of unity from the remaining members of their executive‚ after three — suspended general-secretary Steve Phila‚ Dickson Moleka and Innocent Sirovha — joined Safa’s committee. "I can assure you definitely – this is not a memorial service‚" Mazibuko joked‚ in response to press speculation that the "defections" might signal the beginning of the end for Sasfa. Sasfa has been at loggerheads with Safa sinc...
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