By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Danny Jordaan has been re-elected president of the South African Football Association.
Jordaan has won by a landslide victory, with members of the association backing him to lead South African football for another four years. He garnered 186 votes against Ria Ledwaba’s 27 and Solly Mohlabeng’s eight votes.
Jordaan was first elected Safa president in 2013 to succeed Kirsten Nematandani, before serving another term from 2017.
The veteran football administrator was first appointed Safa chief executive officer in 1997 before rising to head the local football mother body.
But Saturday’s Safa congress went ahead despite three court bids by Ledwaba and her backers to stop it.
The run-up to the polls were drama-filled and Safa chief executive officer Tebogo Motlanthe had raised alarm bells on Friday when he said there were death threats on two delegates.
“We have strengthened the security for obvious reasons. Already two of the members got death threats and we are not taking them lightly,” Motlanthe told the Safa website.
“We have opened cases with the police and as the association we are also opening a case because we do not know, and we have a duty to protect the lives of members and that will be done.
“When a matter is being investigated we cannot say much, but the delegates reported that they received [the death threats], and we are dealing with it.”
A group of supporters for Ledwaba, chanted outside the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday morning, as the elective congress took place.
Ledwaba, meanwhile, was set to be kicked off the Safa executive.
Jordaan faced allegations in 2017 from singer and former ANC member Jennifer Ferguson that he had raped her in 1993, but even that did not stop him from getting a second term as Safa president in March of the following year.