IN-DEPTH
Jordaan still oversees Safa’s lack of delivery
South African football will continue to flounder in mediocrity while the faces at the top remain the same
Danny Jordaan was elected South African Football Association (Safa) president for a second successive term on Saturday, and it is difficult to make sense of this. Does his fresh five-year term signal the dawn of a new era in South African football? Perhaps an era in which some of the frittered-away gains after the hosting of the 2010 World Cup are recaptured and extended? Or does his re-election signify that South African football remains trapped in a kind of administrative limbo, where fresh faces are rare and largely impotent football fans are condemned to watching the same predictable power plays and trivial debates that light up social media year in, year out? Jordaan’s re-election at the packed Safa congress at the Sandton Convention Centre provides some clues about the road ahead. Not for the first time, in the months running up to the elections there were difficult-to-weigh allegations against the incumbent, including allegations of rape from two women. Then, on Saturday, the...
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