Sunday World reports that the SA Football Association (Safa) and its president, Danny Jordaan, have slapped the organisation’s former chief executive officer with a multi-million rand lawsuit for defamatory statements made against them.
Safa and Jordaan filed a R3.5-million suit against Dennis Mumble in the Johannesburg High Court last week for defamation of character. According to the court documents, Safa, the first applicant, and Jordaan, the second, claimed that on 10 March 2024, Mumble attended a Newzroom Afrika television interview, where he made a flurry of defamatory remarks that damaged their reputations. Among the inflammatory remarks allegedly made, Mumble said the Safa constitution stipulated that only the chief executive officer, chief financial officer and general manager of the division could sign a commercial contract. He said Jordaan had no right to sign the Fun Valley Resort contract to build the Safa National Technical Centre, adding that he was not fit to be Safa president. Jordaan and Safa said the alleged defamatory remarks suggested they were involved in dishonest conduct, interference in the administration of their duties, were professionally incompetent and did not comply with the principle of separation of powers, all of which was void from the truth and inconsistent with the true nature of Safa affairs. They said in terms of the Safa constitution, the president and the chief executive officer represented Safa legally, were duly authorised to represent the organisation in any legal proceedings, and were entitled to sign for and on its behalf.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ngwako Malatji at Sunday World
- Read too, Trust Safa suits to ruin any sign of progress in our diski, on page 19 of Sunday World of 23 June 2024
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