It is a deeply sad state of affairs when a country like South Africa, who hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is still unable to implement a basic technology like the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in their football leagues. This failure reflects a larger problem within the administration of the sport in the country,...
The SA Football Association and its professional affiliate – Premier Soccer League – did the right thing under prevailing circumstances by suspending all their activities in line with the call made by the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa who declared the coronavirus a national disaster. This followed decisions by FIFA, CAF, the English Premier League, Botswana,...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) has hinted that they will lodge an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne after the Confederation of African Football Association (CAF) had rejected their Appeal against the Disciplinary Committee decision imposed following their withdrawal from the FUTSAL tournament. South Africa fell foul to CAF when they pulled out...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) through its CEO Gay Mokoena certainly threw the cat among pigeons on Saturday when they claimed that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Disciplinary Committee that charged them for withdrawing from the FUTSAL tournament was illegitimate and not properly constituted. In their documents lodged with CAF appealing the decision to...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) officially lodged an appeal against the decision of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to impose a US$65 000 fine as well as suspension from two future FUTSAL AFCON tournaments for their decision to withdraw from the tournament. South Africa appears to be basing their argument on the minutes of...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) executive committee has taken a painful but necessary decision to withdraw from the CAF 2020 FUTSAL African Cup of Nations tournament scheduled for Laayoun in Western Sahara from January 28 to February 7. The SAFA CEO Gay Mokoena has been mandated by the executive committee to write a letter to...
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is watching the unfolding scandal in faraway Egypt in which Zimbabwe players are alleged to have thrown their final group match against the DR Congo which they lost 4-0 with keen interest. Legendary Zimbabwean journalist Robson Sharuko revealed in a story that appeared in the leading daily The Herald on...
South Africa’s senior national women team will play a farewell match against Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on April 7 before heading for their maiden FIFA World Cup tournament in France. There are a lot of similarities between the African and their Caribbean opponents besides just wearing the same national colors...
The SA Football Association (SAFA) has taken note of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) proposed amendments to the Sports Broadcasting Services Regulations, and like most sporting federations in the country, cannot agree with the proposals. SAFA commented in. statement released on Saturday that they will vehemently oppose the proposed amendments in the current...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is on Saturday expected to announce a shortlist of countries that had submitted their bids to host the 2019 African Cup of Nations tournament. The tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Cameroon. But lack of progress and the slow pace of readiness and security fears security resulted in...
