The Portfolio Committee on Sport, Arts and Culture asked the South African Football Association (SAFA) Chief Executive Officer Ms Lydia Monyepao to leave its meeting following her refusal to answer questions around the salary package paid to ex-Bafana Bafana Coach Mr Hugo Broos.
Ms Monyepao said she could not divulge details of the coaches’ salaries. The committee Chairperson, Mr Joe McGluwa, supplied a letter from the Information Regulator, indicating that for the purposes of accountability, officials should not withhold information from the committee, even personal information.
SAFA was in Parliament to brief the committee on the recently concluded Football World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada.
The committee was also unhappy about the absence of SAFA President Mr Danny Jordaan and the meeting adjourned while efforts were made to find him. Mr Jordaan later messaged the committee to say he was “at a doctor”.
The meeting continued and heard that SAFA will receive over $US11 million from FIFA for reaching the round of 32. The committee heard that 10% of the winning would be paid to Mr Broos, while Mr Helman Mkelele, the assistant coach will get 5%.
Committee members were interested in establishing the facts around a discrepancy in pay in between the departing Mr Broos and the incoming Mr Pitso Mosimane. It was revealed that the total package for Mr Broos was R16.8 million, amounting to R1.4 million per month, excluding such things as accommodation and transport. Yet Mr Mosimane was initially offered R5 million, later raised to R10 million. His appointment remains subject of negotiation, despite Mr Mosimane accepting the job.
Committee member Mr Eugene Mthethwa said this lower salary is tantamount to “looking down on your own”. “How is it that Pitso, being the most decorated of all coaches to coach South Africa, yet remains the least remunerated? We need to protect these creative industries. It has to be South Africa First,” he said.
Mr Mthethwa called for the sports and creative industries to be protected. “We are capable; we need to export our own services, culture and products . . . South Africa needs an economic policies that will protect our own. America is protective towards its own; yet we don’t copy that when we copy them on everything else.”
Mr Sibongile Maputi
25 August 2026
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