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BusinessLive reports that with a little more than a month before the start of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in the Ivory Coast, there is no bonus deal between the SA Football Association (Safa) and Bafana Bafana players.
Bafana are expected to go into camp in Stellenbosch on 4 January to start their Afcon preparations and Safa CEO Lydia Monyepao is hoping a deal will be struck before then. Safa has been negotiating bonuses with the players since mid-October. Monyepao indicated: “We tabled an offer and they came back to us with a counter-offer. We went back to them with another counter-offer and we are still in negotiations. I am hoping that through my discussions with senior players, we will have an agreement on the table before they get into camp at the end of the year so they can focus on the task at hand.” Monyepao added: “We want them to be happy but at the same time we can’t run ourselves into bankruptcy by offering amounts we cannot afford. Hence the negotiations are taking long, because they want this and we can only afford that. We have to find a way in which we can meet each other halfway.” Safa will be eager to avoid a repeat of the embarrassing standoff that developed with Banyana Banyana ahead of the 2023 Women’s World Cup when the women’s national team went as far as boycotting their send-off match against Botswana over several contractual and treatment issues.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mahlatse Mphahlele at BusinessLive
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