South African Football Association Partners With the Hawks to Eradicate Match Fixing in Local Football

• Danny Jordaan confirmed that the South African Football Association was working towards ending match-fixing
• An integrity office from the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation has been brought in to deal with match-fixing
• South African Football Association president Danny Jordaan wants teams to report match-fixing as it takes place

The South African Football Association is committed to putting an end to match-fixing.

SAFA president Danny Jordaan explained that the association had intensified its fight against match-fixing by bringing in the Hawks.

SAFA have employed an integrity officer, who works with the South African Police Services’ Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (more commonly known as the Hawks), The Citizen reported.

Jordaan explained that each referee had to sign an undertaking with the integrity officer and any official then found guilty of match-fixing would be jailed.

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“There must be an end to this thing,” Jordaan said,

He also expressed frustration with teams who play the who the whole season before reporting a case of suspected match-fixing. Many sides, like Jomo Cosmos recently, wait to see if they will survive relegation before reporting corruption in the sport. Cosmos opened a case against Hungry Lions after Ezenkosi were relegated from the GladAfrica Championship but later withdrew their case, IOL reported.

“When there is match-fixing at a particular time in the season, report it on that day, don’t wait for the final day of the season,” he urged.

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