Dr Khumalo has been elected deputy to South African Football Association technical committee chairperson Jack Maluleke, while Linda Zwane, Anastasia “Natasha” Tsichlas and Tankiso Modipa have been appointed as Safa president Danny Jordaan’s three vice-presidents.
The decisions were made at a three-day meeting of Safa’s national executive committee, which concluded in Sandton on Sunday.
Zwane and Tsichlas will serve second terms as vice-presidents, while Modipa takes up the position for the first time. He replaces Bennett Bailey, the chairperson of the Safa Cape Town region.
Khumalo, a Bafana Bafana legend, will now assist Maluleke in leading the technical committee.
Jordaan was re-elected for a fourth term at Safa’s elective congress in Midrand last month, defeating AmaZulu owner Sandile Zungu. The 75-year-old said the process used to choose his deputies had been conducted openly, but declined to identify those who had challenged the successful candidates.
“We determined the vice-presidents by an open ballot, which was observed by all of the members. The election showed the transparency and the commitment of Safa to deal with these matters in an open, transparent way,” Jordaan said at a news conference at the NH hotel on Sunday evening.
The Safa president said the three vice-presidents would work with chief executive Lydia Monyepao to establish the foundations of the association’s Vision 2030 plan.
“The next step is for the vice-presidents to come together with the CEO to put together Vision 2030. In the elements of Vision 2030, it’s about schools, football development and the excellence of our various national teams,” he said.
Modipa is also chairperson of the Football Transformation Forum, a lobby group which supported Jordaan during last month’s election. Bailey, who he replaces as a vice-president, backed Zungu.
Safa’s head of communication, Mninawa Ntloko, also announced that Lebohang Riet had withdrawn a criminal case against Monyepao.
Riet, a member of the Northern Cape NEC and chairperson of Force For Change, supported Zungu before the election. Two days before the vote, he told Sowetan that he had opened a case against Monyepao over the distribution of an election information pack containing amended statutes which had not been agreed.
Riet was unavailable for comment on Sunday after leaving the venue before the news conference.
