South African Football Association (SAFA) President, Kirsten Nematandani leaves for Zurich, Switzerland this evening, (3 April 2013) to attend a meeting with the world controlling soccer body, FIFA, intended to discuss the match fixing report.
The planned meeting is expected to be attended by Nematandani, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke and Minister of Sports and Recreation South Africa, the Honourable Fikile Mbalula.
The meeting of the three parties, called on by FIFA, is to make sure everyone has the same level of information and find a common perceptive on the way forward.
It comes against the backdrop of the SAFA National Executive Committee (NEC) decision to appoint a committee tasked with looking into the setting up of an Independent Commission of Enquiry into the match fixing matter.