Tankiso Modipa

A body on its death bed

In isiZulu, the acronym Safa (South African Football Association) means “we are dying”. How apt. Each day that Danny Jordaan, newly elected to a third term as president, spends in office, football dies a slow death.

On Friday a Safa media conference descended into chaos after a journalist asked Jordaan, who has been Safa president since 2013, what he thought he still needed to do in the post and why he needed three terms to carry out his mandate.

In answer, Jordaan unleashed his rottweiler, Western

Cape region vice-chair Tankiso Modipa, to speak on his behalf. Journalists were “not part of football”, Modipa replied somewhat preposterously. They should not ask “direct and personal questions” and should focus on “journalist things”.

With these clowns in charge once again, Bafana Bafana have no chance of a revival.