The SA soccer chief admitted the Downs president had initially been ‘written off’ as a potential candidate by foreign football officials
Safa president Danny Jordaan has compared Mamelodi Sundowns owner Patrice Motsepe's election as the Caf president as being on par with South Africa's hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
At the Caf general assembly in Rabat, Morocco last Friday, Motsepe was confirmed as the eighth president of Caf, and the first person from the southern region of the continent to hold the crucial position.
Motsepe, who takes over from Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad, ran uncontested for the presidency after Fifa chief Gianni Infantino convinced Senegal’s Augustin Senghor and Mauritania’s Ahmad Yahya to step down in return for other positions.