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Setshedi guilty of match-fixing

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JOHANNESBURG — Former Bafana Bafana technical staff member Phil Setshedi has been found guilty of match-fixing by the Bellville Commercial Crimes Court in Cape Town.

JOHANNESBURG — Former Bafana Bafana technical staff member Phil Setshedi has been found guilty of match-fixing by the Bellville Commercial Crimes Court in Cape Town.

Report by Football365

The former Orlando Pirates player and coach has had the book thrown at him for attempting to influence the outcome of a 2011 South Africa Football Association (Safa) Vodacom playoff match held in the Mother City.

The case, which began in November 2011, has been postponed to February 11 next year for pre-sentence hearings.

Taking the conviction as a big coup for South African football is Safa president Kirsten Nematandani, who told the Sowetan: “This is a strong statement to anyone who might intend to tarnish the good name of the sport through match-fixing or other unsporting behaviour.

“In accordance with Fifa and Safa’s zero tolerance for corruption and match-fixing, we would like to warn other potential criminals that the long arm of the law would not spare them.”

Setshedi was one of Clive Barker’s technical assistants during Bafana’s 1996 Africa Cup of Nations winning campaign.

Nematandani continued: “This conviction is a clear example that the work we are doing with government agencies and the Fifa security department to root out corruption in football is starting to yield positive results.”

The news follows on closely from the match-fixing scandal that has rocked Zimbabwe of late, with former Black Leopards coach Sunday Chidzambwa, as well as Warriors duo Thomas Sweswe and Method Mwanjali, receiving life-long bans from Zimbabwe Football Association for their roles in the saga.