Another election crisis is looming!
This follows after a Safa National Arbitrator declared decisions of Safa Cape Town’s Electoral Committee unlawful and set them aside after they bungled the assessment of the nominations for election of a new Regional Executive Committee. (REC).
That ruling came after the Cape High Court directed that the region’s elections could not take place until they fixed the mess.
Now, it seems that it’s going to happen again because according to our sources the Langa-Ndabeni and Metropolitan LFA’s intend to appeal the decisions of the substitute Electoral Committee which was appointed after a caucus meeting with Safa Cape Town leadership before a Special Congress.
They disqualified the nomination of Eric Gum (again) which means there is no opposition for Safa CT’s president, Bennet Bailey. The substitute Committee simply rubber-stamped the decision of the previous committee with no questions asked.
It appears Safa CT just doesn’t seem to learn from their mistakes. No Bones with Jones had sight of the “Electoral Committee Report” which was sent to the LFA’s earlier this week. The Report gives rise to many questions (inter alia):
1. Did the substitute Electoral Committee understand the ruling of the Safa Arbitrator on what they were required to do?
2. Did they understand that their role was not a rubber-stamping role, but they had to actually, engage in vetting of the nominations themselves?
3. Did they understand that their role was not a rubber-stamping role, but they had to actually, engage in vetting of the nominations themselves?
4. Why is the “Electoral Committee Report” not signed by anyone?
5. Was there a meeting of the substitute Committee which decided that people like Wanderers FC chairman, Eric Gum, must be disqualified again.
6. Is there an attendance register so that it can be checked who actually attended a
meeting and took the decision, if a meeting did take place?
7. Did they read the statutes of Safa Cape Town to check the eligibility of candidates?
8. Why did Safa Cape Town ignore the names of people with legal skills like Advocates
Charles Simon, Rod Solomons and Attorney Darryl Roelf who could have guided the
Committee to correctly interpret the Safa Cape Town statutes.
Was their exclusion deliberate?
With appeals looming, and possibly another weird decision (we hope not), does it mean that the same dispute will end up in Court again and thereafter require another Safa Arbitrator to tell Safa Cape Town how to run football properly.
We can only but hope that one day, the lights will come on and maybe Safa Cape Town can get things right and govern football properly.
For now, it’s best one fasten one’s seat belts because it’s certainly going to be a bumpy ride as we head into another election crisis.
