SAFA president Danny Jordaan during the Football 4 Humanity Exhibition match between Western Cape XI and Palestine at Athlone Stadium in February. (Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images)
Allegations of financial impropriety against the South African Football Association’s (SAFA) president, Danny Jordaan, are a calculated sleight aimed at tarnishing the organisation’s name and evicting its leadership from office.
This is the argument that SAFA has mounted in defence of Jordaan, in a legal opinion the entity has penned to the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
SAFA commissioned a legal opinion after CAF demanded that South African football authorities explain the circumstances surrounding a search and seizure operation carried out by the Hawks at SAFA’s offices on 8 March.
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