South African Football Association (SAFA) presidential candidate Sandile Zungu has saluted all the regions and football leaders behind his campaign, saying they have had to fight off some strong resistance and threats to reach this stage of the campaign.
The SAFA elective congress will be held in Johannesburg this coming Saturday, pitting Zungu against the incumbent Danny Jordaan, who is going for his fourth term.
The AmaZulu owner is confident of the support he’s got and says some of his backers have had to lie low and pretend to be in the opposite camp, for fear of being victimised and marginalised, going to the elections.
“Look, I’ve got to respect people; if that’s what they say and they demonstrate that if you are seen to be not supporting, we’ll dismantle your region and we’ll make sure that you are disqualified from going to elections,” says Zungu.
“Some of them say, ‘But my name has been put on the list for the National Executive Committee (NEC); I don’t want them to start mobilising against me. I want you, Zungu, but I also want to be on NEC, so the best is to pretend, sing, my president like everyone else but vote for the future ’, and we’ve got to be accommodative of that. We’ve got reasonable levels of commitment that we can trust these people who will do the right thing and that’s how we go forward.”
—SABC—
