{"id":36484,"date":"2021-03-13T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=36484"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T11:50:13","slug":"south-african-billionaire-patrice-motsepe-new-caf-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/south-african-billionaire-patrice-motsepe-new-caf-president","title":{"rendered":"South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe New CAF President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Billionaire Patrice Motsepe was yesterday voted the new CAF president News24 reports. Motsepe\u2019s victory was announced yesterday in Rabat, Morroco after the election.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Motsepe said African football will enjoy success when we all work together:<\/p>\n<p>Africa needs collective wisdom, but also the exceptional talent and wisdom of every (national football association) president and every member nation. When we all work together, football in Africa will experience success and growth that it has not enjoyed in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Last week it emerged that FIFA boss Gianni Infantino had struck a deal with Augustin Senghor and Ahmed Yahya, paving the way for Motsepe to become the continent\u2019s football governing body\u2019s boss.<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe announced his candidature and last month went on to present his case using a 10 point manifesto which included the following according to News24:<\/p>\n<p>Source: News24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Billionaire Patrice Motsepe was yesterday voted the new CAF president News24 reports. Motsepe\u2019s victory was announced yesterday in Rabat, Morroco after the election. In his acceptance speech, Motsepe said African football will enjoy success when we all work together: Africa needs collective wisdom, but also the exceptional talent and wisdom of every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,540,3355,3354,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-36484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-caf","14":"tag-gianni-infantino","15":"tag-patrice-motsepe","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>South African Billionaire Patrice Motsepe New CAF President - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Billionaire Patrice Motsepe was yesterday voted the new CAF president News24 reports. 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