"I want to have a meeting with the staff and read their mood. I will then engage the finance department so that one can establish the exact financial position of the organisation," he said. Once that is done, I will draw up a recovery plan which I will then table before Safa's National Executive Committee (NEC)," he added, without mentioning any timeframes for the process. Jordaan was reinstated to his former job when the Football Association NEC met recently in Johannesburg.

Ozinsky, who, as head of Cape Town Tourism was known for her innovative and imaginative marketing, is now an independent tourism consultant. She was one of the speakers at a SAPOA conference at the Sandton Sun on November 2 entitled Investing in Sport Property and focusing on the 2010 Football World Cup in this country.

The Asians have for many years knocked back Oceania's overtures to play in their World Cup qualifying series.

This has forced Australia, the region's leading country, to face South American giants such as Argentina and Uruguay in failed attempts to reach their first finals since West Germany 1974.

But he made it clear that Bafana Bafana should be consistent.

"If they are consistent, we will go all the way to Germany. That is the important platform ? to use these youngsters as the basis for the team in 2010," said a delighted Jordaan.

Bafana Bafana's next assignment is in March, when they embark on the qualifying rounds for both the World Cup and African Nations Cup in Germany and Egypt in 2006.

So serious is the region about this that Duma Nkosi, executive mayor of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, recently launched a programme designed to ensure that an East Rander proudly wears the Green and Gold in six years' time.