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The South African Football Association (SAFA) intends to recover all the costs that were incurred by the Association in the Courts during the multiple legal challenges initiated by Ria Ledwaba and Solly Mohlabeng in the last four years.
Ledwaba and Mohlabeng approached numerous Courts and attempted to overturn the SAFA 2022 Presidential electoral outcome that was concluded during the SAFA Electoral Congress held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday 25 June 2022. They also challenged their loss of standing within the SAFA structures. Dr Jordaan won the majority of the votes ahead of Ledwaba and Mohlabeng and FIFA recognised the outcome just over four years ago.
But this did not deter the two and the matter moved through the Pretoria High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and most recently, the Constitutional Court, the highest Court in the land. At every stage, the Courts consistently rejected, with costs, the Applicants’ efforts to re-litigate the outcome of the elections.
The Constitutional Court dismissed, with costs, the application for leave to appeal a few days ago, marking the end of the road for their long-standing legal challenge against the Association. It was the seventh time in under four years that Ledwaba and Mohlabeng have failed in their legal attempts to disrupt the Association.
Through it all, SAFA was never distracted nor deviated from its mandate to develop and serve football in this country. Banyana Banyana, Bafana Bafana, the junior national teams, the youth programes, and the coaching and referees’ departments, among others, have all remained focused on the task at hand.
SAFA will send the first claim to Ledwaba and Mohlabeng in the coming days and begin the process of pursuing the costs.
SOURCED FROM SAFA WEBSITE.