A WEEK is a long time in politics, we have been told. And now we have discovered that it is also the same in sport, and football in particular.

So much has been happening lately it is a credit to the players that games are still going on.

We have noticed recently that commissions and investigations have been launched into various issues affecting cricket and football.

Sports and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula has had his work cut out and taken on the role of "Mr Fix-it", much to the ire and disappointment of some, while the majority believe it was about time.

Take the shenanigans at Cricket South Africa, with the bonus scandal that refuses to go away and the ultimate sacking of its president, Dr Mtutuzeli Nyoka.

From the facts at our disposal, Nyoka's sin was to demand accountability and transparency with regard to the bonuses that some individuals, including the chief executive Gerald Majola, gave themselves following the Indian Premier League tournament held in South Africa in 2009.

Resistance to this presidential request has been unbelievable in that some CSA provinces came together to pass a vote of no-confidence in Nyoka and fired him twice.

The first time, the courts ruled in his favour and he returned to his job.

A few months down the line he was fired again. This time he has decided to let it go.

In steps the man with the razzmatazz, Mbalula.

He is the only one everyone will and can listen to.

He will fix it.

The same had to happen with the South African Football Association after their embarrassing dance to nowhere.

Following their obvious failure to understand the rules of the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers they were taking part in, Safa threatened CAF with all sorts of action, just short of physical harm.

Kilometres of media coverage on the issue, pointing out that Safa should look in the mirror to see where the blame lay, were ignored.

They told everybody who cared to listen how they were going to change the CAF rules and regulations.

Talk about shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.

Enter Mr Fix-it!

It is history now that Safa did as ordered.

They apologised to the nation and withdrew their ill-thought protest.

All may have been forgiven but for one very important aspect that everybody seems to have missed.

National coach Pitso Mosimane did not see any reason why he should avail himself to explain the failure to the nation.

Instead, he sent the Safa chief executive officer, Dr Robin Petersen, to read an apology on his behalf.

Now that's just not on. Ke lenyatso. Period.

Mosimane is integral to the fiasco in Mbombela.

We are now saddled with another investigation into what really led to this catastrophe.

Mohammed Mubarak, the former Safa vice-president and now senior member of Sascoc, has been tasked with finding out what or who was responsible for misreading or not reading the rules of a competition we have been involved in since 1994.

The question is: what is going to happen to those found responsible?

Nothing, methinks!

Just watch this space.

Yours truly is also adamant that Mosimane's instruction to the team to play for a draw is tantamount to match-fixing.

Some laughed at that.

For people who play Soccer Six and Sportstake that is no laughing matter.

Mosimane had promised us a win and that's how they bet - and lost - over that weekend. We are waiting for his personal apology and until he does, we will keep asking questions.

Then we have the smallernyana matter of Zola Majavu, who will surely go into the Guinness World Records for being the only chief executive to stay only two months in a job.

Dr Irvin Khoza has been mandated to head-hunt someone for a position we once thought was one of the most powerful in local football.

After learning that Majavu resigned when he realised the position was only ceremonial, we will surely not be wrong in saying the Premier Soccer League's executive committee is looking for someone who will always ask "how high?" when asked to jump.

I rest my case.