CAF Member Association heads to receive R900 000 gratuities

Previously, MA presidents used to receive $20 000 (R357 000) annually, but Motsepe revealed at the next CAF Congress in Kinshasa, DR Congo, a resolution will be passed to increase these annual payments.

"You will see that what we are doing now as we are going to the national general assembly, we are dealing with something that's complex but the time requires that. Some of your presidents have no resources, they've got nothing and they've got to run the member associations out of their pockets," Motsepe said.

"So, we have decided we are gonna make a token contribution to every president in every member association. We cannot pay them enough and the intention was to pay them but a token of gratitude and sacrifices."

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Motsepe, who was recently endorsed for a second term by the Council of Southern African Football Associations’s (COSAFA) Executive Committee, also said Secretary Generals from different countries, especially ones struggling financially, need support.

"But there's part of the plan as well, the people who run the office. The people who are gonna wake up in the morning, look at the office, run the management and that's why what we are doing here is critically, critically important,” he said.

“These are the things they say 'President, we shouldn't be talking about them', we should be talking about them because the secretary general has got a family, he's got a wife and children or a husband and children.

“Again, just like the president we cannot pay them enough but we've got to get to a level where there is a contribution from that, that goes to the secretary general. So, we've got to look at those things and make sure that we pay our people."