Soccer

Safa scores R2.1m own goal as election committee members gets R45k a day

It amounted to wasteful and fruitless expenditure which Safa was forced to entertain, sources insist, on the instruction of its president Danny Jordaan

23 June 2019 - 00:00 By BARENG-BATHO KORTJAAS and SAZI HADEBE

The cash-strapped SA Football Association (Safa) was billed R2.1m in payment to five members of the electoral commission which conducted their elections last year...

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