Times Of Swaziland: IT’LL BE RAINING CASH FOR EFA AFFILIATES

IT’LL BE RAINING CASH FOR EFA AFFILIATES
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BY LWAZI DLAMINI on 06/04/2021 08:00:00


EZULWINI – Eswatini Football Association (EFA) affiliates can heave a huge
sigh of relief after the organisation assured them they will be paid their
quarterly grants and the last batch of the COVID-19 solidarity funds before the
end of next week.
The assurance was made by outgoing EFA president Adam ‘Bomber’ Mthethwa,
during the extraordinary general assembly held on Sunday at the Happy Valley
Hotel. “Members are due to receive their payments of grants for 2021 within
the next week. This will be followed in the next few weeks with the last portion
of the COVID-19 Solidarity Fund,’ Mthethwa said.
Address
Mthethwa, in his address, said over and above these financial injections, the
EFA had invested towards the resumption of football as equipment and material
for such had already been done, including the compulsory testing for the various
football clubs at the level of the premier league and national first division
including those from regional super leagues that participated in the national
playoffs. He said the EFA distributed a sum of E2 275 000 to its members to
mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 threat in May 2020 and then followed it up
with another allocation of E3 100 000 again to its members in December 2020.
This was over and above the normal grants which were transmitted to EFA members
in October 2020.
“Delegates, whilst the COVID-19 relief Funding does not affect the receipt of
the normal grants, which are expected to be received in full in 2021, in line
with the requirements of the FIFA Forward Regulations, members are entreated to
exercise cautiousness in expenditure, to ensure an extended livelihood of their
organisations and associated basic responsibilities as the environment of the
pandemic has not yet been resolved, especially, with all economies domestically
and globally including those that finance football, having taken a huge
recession as a result of the persistent health threat,” Mthethwa added.