GALFA Elective Congress Roadmap and Membership Status

The region had a Congress preparatory meeting with GALFA on Saturday, August 24, to work on the elective Congress roadmap. The meeting was a success and produced significant material outputs that are critical for its success.

GALFA will begin to communicate with its Members on August 26, regarding the notice of the Congress, elective guidelines, roadmap, and forms, as well as appointing the Electoral Body.

The membership status was also discussed intensively and guided to ensure transparency and allow Members to remediate shortfalls to become ‘In Good Standing‘. It is the constitutional imperative for only Member ‘In Good Standing’ to participate. This therefore becomes a critical governance aspect of the elective Congress roadmap.

The region reflected on a plethora of issues that the GALFA Members raised during the consultative meeting that took place on August 17. It reiterated its recommendation that the priority should be to get to a point of electing new leaders, and getting these new leaders to address all their concerns. Therefore, part of the agenda of the Congress would be to resolve a mandate for the new EXCO to remediate those concerns. So each Member will write a list of their concerns to the Congress, and the Congress will list the concerns that will form part of the next EXCO’s mandate to remediate.

The region would like to reemphasize to GALFA’s Members that when considering candidates to nominate, consider the following:

1. Is the candidate part of the Ga-Rankuwa community, and do they have the best interest of the Ga-Rankuwa society at heart?
2. Does the candidate have the capacity to serve? Will he/she have enough time to attend the meetings, do the work, represent, and fulfill their tasks?
3. Is the candidate capable of the role you want to nominate? Do they have the requisite skill? Have they done this convincingly before? If not, do they have the will, the drive, and the capacity to develop themselves?

Members must remember that football is not politics. At the Executive Committee level, there are no constituencies. An elected person must immediately perform within their elected role and deliver, failing which, the Executive Committee fails, and the LFA fails. So when voting, exercise your right with extreme caution.

Tshwane Regional Football Association prides itself on being one of the leading regions in the country and wants to emerge as an undisputed leader, not just in governance, but also in leadership, administration, playing, technical and development, branding, media, etc. It all begins at the grassroots level. So GALFA’s success will significantly contribute to these ideals.

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