An investigation launched earlier this year has petered out and the South African Football Association has shown no enthusiasm for investigating the possibility of corruption in its own ranks - in contrast to the way Zimbabwe has taken on the match-fixers.

Fifa and Safa have both previously admitted there is overwhelming evidence that the outcome of four of Bafana Bafana's pre-World Cup friendlies were fixed by an Asian betting syndicate who paid the referees, and potentially the opposing players, to engineer the desired result.

Safa chief executive Robin Petersen said yesterday that the body had written to Fifa in the last two months asking for clarity about the investigation but had received no response.

"We will continue to correspond with them and we have taken note of what has transpired in Zimbabwe over the past days," he said.

The infamous Singapore match fixer Wilson Perumal, who was at the heart of the Zimbabwe match-rigging scandal, was also the central figure in the Bafana affair. He entered into a successful business relationship with Safa, arranging friendly matches on the organisation's behalf.

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Oct 23, 2012

asaowe

SAFA to be ban we gonna sturve to death no football.
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Oct 23, 2012

Papage

So our players and SAFA can be banned for life before AFCON 2013, what will happen?
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Oct 23, 2012

ThirdEye

If players are also involve that will be a mess.
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Oct 23, 2012

asaowe

Ban SAFA please,
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Oct 23, 2012

oneJay

@awesome

yeah ryt they should ban SAFA And Bafana Bafana cs they not winning
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Oct 23, 2012

WarrenG

most game sin SA are fixed.
This country thrives on any form of corruption.
we all know that...
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Oct 23, 2012

McCountryMan

Bad For the Beloved country, African my land
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Oct 23, 2012

asaowe

no country is clean, FIFA use selective judgements
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