What SAFA told CAF about Hawks raid: 'An attempt to smear the good name of SAFA'

Allegations of financial impropriety against the South African Football Association's (SAFA) president, Danny Jordaan, are a calculated sleight aimed at tarnishing the organisation's name and evicting its leadership from office.

This is the argument that SAFA has mounted in defence of Jordaan, in a legal opinion the entity has penned to the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

SAFA commissioned a legal opinion after CAF demanded that South African football authorities explain the circumstances surrounding a search and seizure operation carried out by the Hawks at SAFA's offices on 8 March.