Calls for SAFA CEO’s suspension amid owed grants to regions

Speaking exclusively to the public broadcaster, Galdwyn White – one of the NEC members who was at the centre of a confrontation in the widely circulated videos – informed us that he had tabled a motion for Monyepao to be suspended as the association has failed to pay grants to its regions for three years. 

He further went on to confirm that this was part of item 13 on the agenda which deals with motions, which they never even got to due to the pandemonium that led to the meeting being adjourned. 

“What transpired was based on the agenda that was distributed last year. The meeting was supposed to be last year December. As soon as we received the notice I discussed a motion to be put on the agenda to suspend the CEO for failure to meet her KPIs. 

“In June 2024 at a special NEC meeting in Bloemfontein, the President said the non-payment of regional grants must be part of those KPIs. If she continues failing to pay them, that will be affecting her performance and there should be consequences thereof,” said the former vice-President of the association. 

“Since then there has never been a single payment made to the regions in terms of grants. That was where my motion was originating from.”

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Pressed for the numbers in terms of what is due to the regions, White said that the national governing body is close to R63 million in arrears at the moment.

“In total we owe regions over 36 months of grants, which is equivalent to a minimum of R1.2 million per region that we are owing them in all 52 regions”, he added.

White said in no uncertain terms that Monyepao has not fulfilled her duties as the CEO of the organisation, and that the failure to pay the regions is just the tip of the iceberg.

“It’s a whole list of things that she has drastically failed in, and she’s an embarrassment to graduates like myself. The non-payment of grants is just one out of so many. The list is endless”, concluded White.

The chaos erupted when another member, Tankiso Modipa, allegedly proposed that item 13 be moved forward on the agenda, before the minutes of the last meeting in Mbombela in October last year were put on the table. 

According to White, he wanted to bring back a failed motion to suspend himself, Monde Montshiwa, Bhuda Mathate, and Lebogang Riet, to which they protested. He says that motion was not even part of the last meeting but from June last year, when they had a marathon sitting at SAFA House which lasted the whole day and night. Saturday’s meeting was then adjourned but after a recess of about 40 minutes President Danny Jordaan – who was chairing the proceedings – came back and wanted to reconvene.

This is when he again staged a protest stating that an adjourned meeting cannot reconvene without a notice to do so. It was at that point that a stand-off ensued leading to members even exchanging physical blows.

SABC Sport made several attempts to get comment from SAFA on the allegations, and the association had not responded at the time of publishing.