AmaZulu slams Safa over referee punishment

Match commissioner Rudzani Mulaudzi was banned by Safa for the rest of the 2017/18 season while assistant referee Linos Hobwane was suspended for two years for lying about an assault on him by an AmaZulu player in a match against Baroka FC in January 2016.

“Look‚ at least finally something was done. It’s scary that those types of things can happen,” Sokhela told TimesLive.

“And to be honest‚ it was shocking that one of them was only banned until the end of this season.

“I mean‚ for something like this, you should be banned for life.

“How on earth can we allow these people to come back‚ whether it’s at the end of this season‚ or the next two years to actually officiate games when they’ve been that dishonest?

“And one has to ask‚ ‘What was their motive‚ really?’.

“You’re not just talking about something that could have been them being mistaken as them being hit. You’re talking about nothing at all happened‚ and then they went and completely fabricated a story.”