{"id":992577,"date":"2022-02-16T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/leslie-sedibes-case-suing-safa-and-fifa-dismissed-from-constitutional-court\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:27:28","slug":"leslie-sedibes-case-suing-safa-and-fifa-dismissed-from-constitutional-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/16\/leslie-sedibes-case-suing-safa-and-fifa-dismissed-from-constitutional-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Sedibe\u2019s case suing Safa and Fifa dismissed from Constitutional Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fifa also banned Safa officials Lindile \u201cAce\u201d Kika, Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse related to contracts outsourcing the appointment of match officials to Bafana\u2019s build-up matches to the 2010 World Cup to convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal.<\/p>\n<p>In a 500-page report that emerged from the ethics committee probe, Chris Eaton, Fifa\u2019s then head of security, said Perumal\u2019s company, Football4U, provided the match officials for the four games under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sedibe served as Safa CEO from January 2010 to February 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Haydock of the law firm representing Safa and Fifa \u2014 Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs \u2014 was asked for comment on how the case involved Fifa too, and responded: \u201cOur instructions are that Fifa would prefer not to comment on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sedibe\u2019s attorney, Sumaiya Khammissa, said the ex-Safa CEO has vowed not to give up the battle to clear his name, and  there are plans to resume the court effort against Fifa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the attachment application [regarding Fifa\u2019s trademark] was to enable our client to serve papers on Fifa, which at the time did not have offices in SA,\u201d Khammissa said via a WhatsApp message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand Fifa has offices in SA and accordingly our client will file a review application in SA after consulting advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll we can say  is that Fifa\u2019s victory is  hollow  and the matter is far from over as the courtl has to consider the merits of the main review application as opposed to the attachment application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Mr Sedibe wants  to be given an opportunity to clear his name and this will  happen now that Fifa has offices in SA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sedibe\u2019s cellphone went straight to voicemail, and he did not respond to an SMS message.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"291fc82934d51623860da47d-text\/javascript\"> !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=\"2.0\";\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,\"script\",\n    \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js\");\n    fbq(\"init\", \"244878373546811\");\n    fbq(\"track\", \"PageView\"); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifa also banned Safa officials Lindile \u201cAce\u201d Kika, Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse related to contracts outsourcing the appointment of match officials to Bafana\u2019s build-up matches to the 2010 World Cup to convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal. In a 500-page report that emerged from the ethics committee probe, Chris Eaton, Fifa\u2019s then head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}