advocate tebogo motlanthe

The South African Football Association (Safa) has announced the appointment of advocate Tebogo Motlanthe as the organisation’s new acting chief executive officer.The 39 year-old Motlanthe takes over from the acting predecessor Gay Mokoena‚ who was asked to leave the position on April 15 by Safa president Danny Jordaan.“The South African Football Association (SAFA) NEC has unanimously endorsed the appointment of Advocate Tebogo Motlanthe as the new Acting CEO of the organisation‚” Safa said in a statement on Saturday.“The appointment of Advocate Motlanthe (39) is with immediate effect.“Advocate Motlanthe formed part of the Safa legal team that successfully defended the Association against the Fli-Afrika complaint in which the travel agency was claiming millions of Rand from the FA.“The lawsuit was dismissed by both the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court with costs [this week].”According to his profile on LinkedIn.com‚ Motlanthe earned LLB law degree from the University of Venda for Science and Technology from 2003 to 2008.

Adv Motlanthe has had his hands full since he took over the demanding job, from making several outstanding payments, helping the Association sign historic agreements with key Football Federations to reworking a new football calendar for clubs from professional and amateur ranks to international football.Since coming into office at the beginning of this month, Motlanthe has managed to pay all of SAFA’s 52 Regions and the ABC Motsepe clubs’ outstanding payments for the past seasons.“I would like to thank the Motsepe Foundation for providing us with this crucial funding especially during these trying times when the whole environment is suffering from the devastating effects of Covid-19,” said Motlanthe.“The payments to the Regions and ABC Motsepe clubs is very important considering it is lower clubs and regions that have been mostly affected by this pandemic.”Motlanthe also revealed that SAFA had also paid Banyana Banyana’s outstanding bonuses, thanks to sponsors SASOL.“I had to make sure that we attend to all these unsettled payments so that we mitigate the effects of Covid-19 and that we start on a clean slate,” he added.One of the main issues to attend to now was preparing and building the base for the return of football for clubs and international football.SAFA and the NSL will meet on Monday for the Joint Liaison Committee meeting to check the feasibility of resumption of football.“We are going to discuss the practicality of when and how football should restart.”Covid-19 has caused untold financial losses to all sporting codes and Motlanthe has been liaising with other sporting codes to see how the sporting family can mitigate the effects of the pandemic to the sport.Among the sporting codes SAFA has been interacting with are the South African Rugby Union and Cricket South Africa.In his month in office, Motlanthe has presided over the cooperation agreements between SAFA and 2018 FIFA World Cup hosts, Russia and 2022 hosts Qatar which entails a number of cooperation areas from technical, medical to a whole range of other areas.Only last week, SAFA entered into an agreement with the English FA to work together on a host of areas including how football can resume again.“It has really been a baptism of fire but I am relishing the challenge. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Tebogo’s connections and jobs at similar companies.

12 February 2018 – SAFA Head of Legal, advocate Tebogo Motlanthe has lauded the flawless process of the ongoing elections of SAFA Regions elective congresses adding the entire practice should be complete in coming weeks. Tebogo has 3 jobs listed on their profile. The South African Football Association (Safa) has announced the appointment of advocate Tebogo Motlanthe as the organisation’s new acting chief executive officer. He earned a sports management qualification from Wits Business School from 2012 to 2013.On Thursday Safa had sent out a statement regarding their Constitutional Court victory in a R17-million dispute against the association by travel company Fli-Afrika.“The Constitutional Court on Wednesday‚ 6 May 2020 dismissed an appeal by Fli-Afrika with costs in which the travel agency was seeking R17 million against Safa‚” that statement read.“The Constitutional Court judgement is the final verdict in the long-running battle in which Fli-Afrika Travel (Pvt) Ltd has been pursuing compensation from SAFA for monies they claim they were deprived of during the FIFA 2010 World Cup.”The dispute had stemmed from an aborted plan between Safa and Fli-Afrika to sell World Cup travel packages.Safa had earlier expressed disappointment with Mokoena after a report by the ex-acting CEO‚ authored after he left the position and addressed to the NEC‚ and which launched a stinging criticism of Jordaan’s administration of Safa‚ was leaked to the media.Mokoena had alleged Jordaan was running the financially-ailing organisation like his own fiefdom‚ was flouting corporate governance principles and was violating Safa statutes‚ among a host of other allegations.Safa appoint legal head Tebogo Motlanthe as acting CEO © 2020 Arena Holdings (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved.