Safa NEC member Gladwyn White has filed a formal complaint against Safa President Danny Jordaan’s Football Task Force (FTF) with the SAPS and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya.
According to White, the case with the Hawks is for Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) violations, fraud, corruption and political funding of FTF by an adult entertainment interest group. His main gripe is that pornography money has purchased political loyalty within South African football.
White, who is backed by the rebellious Save Our Safa movement, has also written to the Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Sindisiwe Chikunga, and the social development minister.
To show intent, he also penned similar letters to Fifa, CAF, Sascoc, Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie and Safa chief executive officer
Lydia Monyepao.
The disgruntled members are up in arms that a controversial company, Sports Fusion Technology (SFT), established by an adult entertainment businessman, entered the football space after being roped in by FTF, which is spearheading Jordaan’s presidential election campaign.
Reads part of the letter to the SAPS and Hawks, which Sunday World has seen: “I hereby submit a formal criminal complaint regarding the following offences: violation of Popia and illegal processing of children’s personal data by an entity SFT not registered with the Information Regulator.”
White explained further: “With the complaints, we aim to achieve criminal prosecution of Tankiso Modipa and potentially Jordaan for Popia violations, corruption, fraud and money laundering.
“We are also calling for the immediate operational shutdown of SFT and termination of all contracts, with seizure of children’s data; removal from office of Modipa and destruction of Jordaan’ fourth-term presidential campaign by exposing it as pornography-funded corruption, and finally, the protection of MySAFA,” he added.
Last month, members of the FTF held their campaign meeting in Bloemfontein, which was funded by SFT.
At the meeting, where Jordaan was one of the delegates, the FTF members wore blue T-shirts emblazoned with FTF branding and SFT logos at the front and the back.
SFT officials were responsible for the registrations, handed out T-shirts and caps and also took pictures of delegates. The delegates were booked at the City Lodge and Kopanong Lodge in Bloemfontein.
White told Sunday World: “Pornography money has purchased political loyalty within South African football: the owner of multiple Adult World Entertainment franchise stores, fronting with his dormant shell company SFT to fund Jordaan’s fourth-term Safa presidential campaign – paying for transport, accommodation, meals and branded regalia for ignorant Safa officials at a Bloemfontein political weekend – in exchange for unauthorised player registration contracts that criminally process children’s data in violation of Popia.”
With Safa not commenting on FTF matters, national convenor of the FTF, Modipa responded: “In Safa we do not have a standing committee called FTF. As I indicated, FTF is a lobby group. FTF issues are FTF issues and if you are not a member, you cannot open a case with regards to FTF matters – it does not matter how you feel about the sponsor that funded the workshop in Bloemfontein.” “They can open a case against me and I do not have issues with that. I am a police official and I go to court every now and then. You cannot be a member of the Roman Catholic Church and then go open a case against a member of the Methodist Church because of what they are doing, when you do not belong there,” he added. Modipa also mentioned that they were not bothered by the letters and the case with the Hawks because there is nothing illegal that was done.
“I have clarified that the FTF and SFT sponsorship is not associated with porn or the sex business. They must prove how they are involved in porn.
“It’s their constitutional right to prove the allegations and to continue with the case. But they must be 100% sure. With my cap as Safa NEC member, representing Western Cape, Safa has never signed any sponsor with SFT, the CEO of Safa can confirm that,” he added.
