Solly Malatsi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), said cases were opened against both Jordaan and Molefi Oliphant, President of the SAFA at the time when the alleged bribe was arranged in 2007, to "initiate a criminal investigation into the allegation".

The DA believes Jordaan and Oliphant should be investigated over the payment to Jack Warner, the ex-President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) who is one of 14 people indicted in the United States-led prosecution involving FIFA.

"We know that both Jordaan and Oliphant are implicated in the decision to transfer the money for CONCACAF’s Diaspora Legacy Programme in two letters‚" alleged Malatsi.

"A letter‚ written and signed by Jordaan in his capacity as the chief exectutive of the Bid Committee in December 2007‚ shows that he instructed FIFA to authorise the $10 million payment to CONCACAF.

"A second letter from Oliphant to FIFA in March 2008 shows that he too instructed the payment of the $10 million."

South Africa's Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula’s admission in Parliament that "there has been no request thus far for a criminal investigation, despite the growing body of evidence" is said to have prompted the laying of charges.

"Given the evidence, we have decided to lay criminal charges so we can get to the bottom of these allegations tarnishing the 2010 World Cup and because there seems to be no will by our Government to deal decisively with these allegations," added Malatsi.

Former FIFA Executive Committee member Chuck Blazer admitted the payment was a bribe to secure votes for South Africa, according to US authorities investigating corruption at world football’s governing body.

FIFA has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since May, when several officials were arrested on the eve of its Congress in Zurich.

Nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives have been indicted in the US and charged with offences including money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud.



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