“How can you send such a communique at night? It means you don’t value your employees as assets to the company. There are debit orders aligned to payday and if you inform us so late, we can’t make prior arrangements,” they said.
In addition to a decline in sponsorships, Safa is said to have not received any financial grant from Fifa over the last financial year after the association took a R22m “loan” from the world football governing body in the previous financial year.
“That R22m is reflected in the financial statement, but no-one can tell what it was used for,” said the angry employee. “We have to repay the loan at a rate of R500,000 every quarter, and finish it before Fifa grants us another loan. We had asked that [the] R22m be used to clear historical debts, but that didn’t happen.”
Safa posted a shortfall of R107m in its financial report for 2022-23.
Safa CEO Lydia Monyepao, who was scheduled to speak at an event to introduce Honor as Safa’s new technology partner on Tuesday, did not show up at the event. Several attempts to reach her for comment on the late salary payment have been unsuccessful.
Meanwhile, the much-awaited Safa national executive committee meeting, which could decide embattled president Danny Jordaan’s future, is scheduled for this weekend — though it is unclear if it will go ahead.
“How can we have funds to hold an NEC meeting while our staff have not been paid?” queried another Safa official.
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