South African Football Association (SAFA) launched Bafana Bafana coaching job on Wednesday. As SAFA sacked head coach Molefi Ntseki after the team failed to qualify for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations.

This comes as a major backward step in SAFA’s ‘Vision 2022’, with the World Cup qualifiers just a few weeks away. And the final tournament to be staged in less than 600 days.

The Association’s CEO Tebogo Motlanthe has outlined the process that will now follow to find a new head coach. While Technical Committee chair Jack Maluleka confirmed that no candidate has been lined up for the job.

“This was an NEC decision which was taken in a round-robin. So what is going to happen from here is that Mr Maluleka and his committee will give us direction.” Explained Motlanthe.

“We hope that we will reconvene early next week to give you the process which will unfold going there. But I think they were indeed mindful of that.”

Maluleka added: “We don’t have anybody. You talk about the issue of time frame. The NEC will communicate to the CEO and committees, and we will reconvene as soon as possible.

“In that meeting is when we can be guided. Because the instruction will be from the national executive committee that we want you to go through the process of getting another coach.

“That will then be the mandate carried on by the technical committee. And in terms of time, it will be taken into consideration.”