FIFA Bans South African Top Official Lindile Kika For Six Years Over Match-Fixing

In a new twist trailing the scandals engulfed world football FIFA, A former top South African official, Lindile Kika, has been banned for six years for his role in a major match-fixing scandal with Asian betting syndicates before South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup.

He got banned in a ruling some minute ago.

Kika, the former South Africa Football Association director of national teams, was one of five officials named in a FIFA report on match-fixing.

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