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Article: Safa seal new deals for Bafana Bafana.(Sports)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2007
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BYLINE: Paul Martin
The new Bafana Bafana sponsorship structure will see SA Breweries (SAB) have a 50 percent stake with two new sponsors set to put in the remaining 50 percent finance backing of the national team's running budget of around R100-million per annum.
Safa CEO Raymond Hack confirmed that all new contracts negotiated between Safa and sponsors will be signed until 2011.
Previously, the Bafana Bafana were backed by SAB and cellular network Vodacom, whose contract as an official sponsor of the national team ended in December last year.
Under the new sponsorship plan, Vodacom will retain their association with Safa by being the ...