{"id":45326,"date":"2026-09-12T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45326"},"modified":"2026-09-12T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:34:28","slug":"blow-to-zungu-as-four-safa-regions-disqualified-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/blow-to-zungu-as-four-safa-regions-disqualified-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow to Zungu as four SAFA regions disqualified from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">For what is believed to be a blow to the Sandile Zungu campaign, the South African Football Association\u2019s (SAFA) National Executive Committee has resolved to disqualify four regions from attending and participating in Saturday\u2019s SAFA Congress in Midrand.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The reason for their disqualification is that they failed to hold their regional elections prior to the national congress.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The regions affected are Harry Gwala and Amajuba from KwaZulu-Natal, and the Northern Cape\u2019s Pixley Ka Sema and ZFM regions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>They were all believed to be backing Zungu, who is opposing incumbent Danny Jordaan for the SAFA Presidency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Their disqualification completely changes the voting landscape.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41704,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-45326","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Their disqualification completely changes the voting landscape.","published_date":"","news_description":"Their disqualification completely changes the voting landscape.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45327,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45326\/revisions\/45327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}