Pretoria - The process to interview the five candidates short-listed for the Bafana Bafana head coach job, which were initially scheduled to start on Wednesday, will now be conducted today.
South African Football Association (Safa) technical committee chairperson, Fanyana Sibanyoni said the committee arrived at the decision after concluding that conducting interviews on separate days would give an advantage to those who would come later.
This is with the exception of Bafana Bafana caretaker coach, Steve Komphela, who is in camp with the national team preparing for the international friendly match against Gabon on Friday at Mbombela stadium in Nelspruit.
"It was a procedural decision that we took as the technical committee. We decided that all prospective coaches will each have a two-hour presentation followed by interviews, with the exception of Steve who is on national duty.
"We expect to start the interviews early in the morning and everyone should have gone through the process by 4pm."
The technical committee chairperson further said once the process of interviewing the candidates was complete, the committee would expedite the process of recommending the ranked candidates on a list from which Safa's National Executive Committee (NEC) will select the successful candidate.
"We would like to appeal to the public to support the successful candidate because people will have their own preferred candidates. There is a huge diversity of opinion on this matter that is why I am appealing to the public to welcome whoever is selected as the new Bafana head coach," said Sibanyoni.
The short-listed candidates are Moroka Swallows coach Gordon Igesund, Supersport United coach Gavin Hunt, former Bafana Bafana skipper, Neil Tovey, under 23 coach, Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba and Komphela, who will be interviewed on Tuesday, 19 June.
The position was left vacant after Safa sacked Bafana head coach Pitso Mosimane last week.
