South Africa has again denied that a payment of $10 million to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner during their successful bid for the 2010 World Cup was a bribe.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula on Wednesday told a news conference that neither South Africa’s government nor the 2010 World Cup bid and organising committee bought votes for the right to host the finals.
Meanwhile, conspicuously absent at the briefing where South African Football Association officials like Organising Committee Chairman Irvin Khoza and high profile Chief Executive officer Danny Jordaan, reports Reuters.
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