Safa asks for patience as the complaint against the referee takes longer.

If the SA Football Association (Safa) does not receive a satisfying conclusion in their complaint involving the World Cup qualifier against Ghana last month, they may proceed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

After alleging that Senegalese referee N’Diaye Maguette had allegedly influenced the match, Bafana Bafana are still waiting for a response from FIFA.

It has been many days since the Fifa disciplinary committee convened to decide Bafana’s qualification destiny, and while South Africans wait in anticipation, Safa CEO Tebogo Motlanthe has begged for patience.

“I think as South Africans the mistake we have made is that everyone thought the decision will be announced on November 23,” Motlanthe explained to Sowetan yesterday.

“Remember, they said they are going to listen to the matter on the 23rd. Fifa didn’t say they were going to give a decision on that day, so let’s just give them their time to do their work.

“There are a lot of things they are dealing with. If they don’t give you a good reason, you can still go and challenge the matter with CAS. So they rather do their work and we give them the space.”

“There has been a lot of information that is coming from Ghana itself about a lot of things, so they are giving us information,” he said.

“Fifa said if there is information you get, you must disclose it. If not, then you are part of it. So we will wait and see and not put pressure on them. Let them do their investigations. We ask everyone to remain patient.”