Jordaan named Hayatou's advisor

Under pressure Safa president Danny Jordaan, implicated in an alleged bribery scandal around the 2010 World Cup, has been named a special advisor to Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou.

He will attend CAF executive committee meetings but have no voting rights, which is also the case with former Safa president Molefi Oliphant, who continues at the highest level of the African game as a co-opted member of the executive committee.

A total of 13 South Africans, including four women, were named this week on various CAF committees, which are reconstituted every two years and reflect the ever-changing balance of power in African football.

Oliphant, a former vice-president, is no longer an elected member and has been removed from CAF's important emergency committee, as well as from his post as chairman of the women's football committee and from the ranks of the referees committee.

But he has been moved over to the CHAN-2016 organising committee to replace Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana.

Jordaan has ceded his place on the marketing and TV committee to his Safa vice-president Lucas Nhlapo, while Elvis Shishana takes Mandla Mazibuko's place on the Caf club licensing management committee.

Also dumped by CAF is Jordaan's immediate predecessor Kirsten Nematandani, who had been on the Afcon organising committee, while Irvin Khoza continues his role on the organising committee for the two annual African club competitions.