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The highly publicised spat between Safa president Danny Jordaan and his lieutenant Gay Mokoena has attracted criticism from the political quarter, with the DA calling for the suspension of the Safa head.
This follows media reports on Sunday on the emergence of a leaked explosive letter, titled The Mokoena Report, detailing the events that suggest Mokoena and Jordaan had a huge fallout prior to Mokoena vacating his chief executive officer (CEO) role a fortnight ago.
City Press broke the story of Mokoena quitting the position he has held on interim basis in a huff, however he could not provide reasons at the time.
READ: Safa boss quits ... is it to do with looming retrenchments?
The comprehensive document implied that Jordaan was running Safa like his own fiefdom and accused him of flouting his organisation’s constitution and corporate governance principles, an accusation the football controlling body’s office did not take kindly to, with particular concern that the letter was leaked to the media before it could reach Safa’s national executive committee.
It is against these developments that DA Shadow Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Tsepo Mhlongo said in a statement that “Jordaan is not fit to lead Safa in this era”, and that he must recuse himself from his leadership role at Safa “to find himself”.
Mhlongo is also an MP who sits on Parliament's sports portfolio committee.
“The DA calls for his suspension and investigation into this matter to be conducted by reputable and independent legal practitioners. This will ensure that the findings and recommendations made to the Safa board on the future of Jordaan are objective and unquestionable. Breaking corporate governance principles means he’s a one-man show and that amounts to corruption tendencies,” wrote Mhlongo in the statement.
“The Safa [national executive committee] should be blamed for allowing itself to be part and parcel of maladministration. The whole [committee] deserves to be dissolved or disbanded altogether because it doesn’t follow its own constitution.”
Safa has not had a permanent accounting officer since Dennis Mumble left in 2018. Mokoena took over from Russell Paul, who also held the position on an interim basis, in November 2019.
READ: Where is Dennis Mumble?
In his leaked report, Mokoena wrote that his actions to leave were not motivated by sour grapes. Some of the issues he raised in the report were that Jordaan “does not have the powers to appoint or dismiss a CEO‚ [chief operating officer] and/or [chief financial officer]‚ therefore he has violated clause 37.3 of the Safa constitution”.
In its response on the weekend, Safa lashed at Mokoena for directly sending his report to the national executive committee members while bypassing the association’s normal process and protocols through Safa subcommittees and administration, and/or through the president.
READ: Tim Spirit - The CEO situation at Safa reflects badly on Danny Jordaan
Safa head of communications Dominic Chimhavi told City Press on Wednesday that the organisation “won’t give credence to some attention-seeking political parties delving in football matters”.
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