Safa CEO fires back at ‘clown’ Ace Ncobo
The South African Football Association (Safa) CEO Dennis Mumble has hit back at Andile "Ace" Ncobo.
Ace Ncobo (Photo by Duif du Toit / Gallo Images)
Ncobo has levelled several allegations against Safa at his press conferences, targeting Safa President Danny Jordaan.
“Why are you guys giving this guy so much airtime? He is a clown and cannot be taken seriously. He has made countless allegations against Safa over the past few months, but he is yet to prove anything,” Mumble was quoted as saying by Goal.
Ncobo recently stated that Danny Jordaan will no longer be president of Safa after May 31.
The former PSL referee already managed to get the Safa elective congress postponed last month (phase one of his strategy), arguing that the association were violating their own electoral code in several ways.
“As we sit here‚ we have an association that is in breach of the companies act because no registered entity is supposed to spend a single day without an auditing firm. KPMG terminated its contract with Safa‚ the Legacy Trust and the Development Agency on the 3rd of March,” Ncobo said earlier this week.
“Those entities are operating illegally and nobody talks about it. We have written to the Minister of Sport to request that there must be a forensic investigation into financial affairs of Safa. We have also written to Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, who was appointed by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants to investigate the conduct of KPMG,” he explained.
“The electoral code that Safa is using is a standard code that is used by about 211 members of Fifa and their decision to try and legalise the violations will put us on a collision course with Fifa and we could be suspended from international football,” he added.
“If you look at the value of sponsorships that Safa is attracting and you compare that with a number and value of sponsors that the PSL is attracting‚ is a skewed arrangement. You have the PSL who averages about 1200 participants against an organisation that has over 3 million participants and yet Safa struggles to reach even 10% of the sponsorship value of their special member,” Ncobo said.
“Currently Safa is not able to give any return on investment to sponsors and there is something wrong with that picture,” he concluded.
