Ntwaagae to challenge Sebetela for BFA position
Mqondisi Dube | Friday March 28, 2014 16:11
Ntwaagae has accused Sebetela of being ineffective and wants him replaced when the BFA holds its elective annual assembly in July. “My feeling is that Sebetela has not performed. The best for football is for the right person to take over. I urge those who have interest to come forward and contest,” Ntwaagae said.
He said the position is key to the BFA’s success and that at the moment football has stagnated due to the incumbent. “The secretariat is not empowered enough to drive the football mandate. We don’t have a strategy to drive football, which means we cannot do business. Where do you get direction?” Ntwaagae said.
He said the absence of a strategy means the BFA could not formulate policies to drive the game forward.
“We have employed a CEO and a coach from outside, but do we have objectives or performance measuring tools?,” he wondered, adding that there was need for organisational review at BFA and to push the ideals of the Bosele Declaration. He wants to see more football activities spread across the country as part of taking football to the people.
Ntwaagae said two years would be sufficient for him to fulfil his targets arguing, four year terms are detrimental. “What happens when that person is failing, you cannot wait for four years,” he argued. The former TASC and Nico United player is concerned with the recycling of soccer leaders, saying this might send a wrong message that football has no capable administrators.
Ntwaagae said he would approach BFA president, Tebogo Sebego and inform him of his intentions “as the leader of the association.”
He said he would contest free from any alignment to a faction.
Ntwaagae is a former ‘Friend Of Football’, which ushered Sebego into the BFA’s top post. “I know there are factions in football. But I do not like them as they dis-empower an individual. This is why I want to stand as an independent,” Ntwaagae said. Asked about a frosty relationship between him and Sebego, Ntwaagae said he does not hold grudges. “That is why I want to work with Sebego. Football should be the winner at the end of the day.
This was the basis upon which Friends of Football was formed; that football should be the winner at the end,” he said.
Sebetela said he was unsure if he will seek re-election. “I have not thought about that. I have no comment about those who say I have failed. It’s their views, this is a democracy. It is up to people to judge,” Sebetela said.