Kaizer Chiefs’ Marketing and Commercial Director Jessica Motaung has questioned the role of the Premier Soccer League leadership over the ongoing court case.
The PSL leadership sent a directive to all club chair persons of the league’s clubs, which iDiski Times has seen, lining out the way forward and confirming that the case of Amakhosi’s two December fixtures against Cape Town City and Golden Arrows will be heard on 10 May.
Motaung has expressed her disappointment with the way the league has handled the situation and questioned the role of the PSL leadership after the arbitrator ruled in Chiefs favour.
“This whole situation with the case is one that I’m just quite baffled about here in South Africa,” she told Thabiso Mosia on MetroFM.
“First of all, we all know the rules of the game and the fact that arbitration is supposed to be final and binding.
“So I’m quite surprised, it’s actually quite shocking and I’m quite sad that we started having our football governed through the courts. That’ll be quite a pity. I’m hoping that there will be some reasonable engagement around that.
“Obviously, we were very clear in the direction that we took and we’d love to play the games. It’s just very disappointing, we say we’re a rules-based organisation, then can we stick to our own rules.”
Motaung also expressed her surprise that other cases are now being opened against Chiefs and questioned whether her club is being targeted after taking the PSL to the arbitrator.
“And suddenly, all of a sudden there are certain cases coming up against us. But you know what, at the end of the day, we as a club will focus [on ourselves] and do the job,” she added.
“But I just think that there has to be a leadership introspection to say ‘where are we going as South African football, where are we going as a country in terms of our football to make sure that we don’t focus on, is it personal or picking on specific clubs or making sure that the game is looked properly after?’
“For us, we are glad that the arbitration is on our side and we hope that sanity will prevail. And I know that the case is up judiciary so I’m not going into further detail.
“I just feel it’s some of the things that have suddenly started to surface, it just feels like ‘are we as Chiefs being targeted?’ I’m not sure.
“But all I can say is that we will focus and make sure that we represent this league and what football has been for this country with distinction.”
