The South African Football Association lodged a protest with the International Federation of the Game (FIFA) to consider "controversial decisions" related to its 1-0 loss to Ghana, which ended its efforts to qualify for the World Cup in Qatar, demanding that the match be replayed.
And the South African team (Bafana Bafana) needed one point from the match that took place in Cape Coast in order to qualify for the final stage of the African qualifiers for the World Cup, but it fell to Ghana with a goal scored by Andre Ayew from a penalty kick in the 33rd minute.
Penalty kick for Ghana against South Africa by containment system
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Ghana qualified at the expense of South Africa
Ghana qualified for the final stage of the qualifiers, ahead of South Africa in Group G with a difference of goals, after they were equal in total points.
But South African Football Association chief executive Tibogo Motlanthe feels that a series of decisions, including the penalty kick, are against his team.
"The referees decided the match, which was not supposed to happen," Motlanthe wrote on the official account of the South African Football Association on the social networking site "Twitter".
He added, "We will send to the Confederation of African Football and FIFA first to investigate how the match was managed, and secondly we will appeal against some of these decisions."
"We have already been informed by the match observer that we will file an official complaint," he concluded.
Referee Maguti Ndaye awarded a penalty kick to Daniel Amarty as a result of a normal contact that does not amount to a violation by Rochen de Roque.
Although the referee stood close and had a good viewing angle, he insisted on calculating a penalty kick amid the players’ objection, with the apparent fall of the Ghana striker, who deserved a warning and an indirect free kick against him for trying to deceive the referee, or signaling to continue playing at least.
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History of South Africa with Arbitration
South Africa was a direct reason for FIFA to suspend Ghanaian international referee Joseph Lamptey, after it was proven that he was involved in the scandal of fixing the result of its match in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Senegal on November 12, 2016.
Lamptey awarded a fake penalty kick to South Africa at home in the 43rd minute of the match on the pretext that there was a handball on Senegal defender Kalidou Coulibaly, despite the assistant referee's reference to a corner kick and Coulibaly's failure to touch the ball in the first place.
Thanks to the penalty kick, South Africa beat Senegal 2-1, but the Senegalese federation did not give up and filed a complaint with FIFA against the Ghanaian referee, and attached it to the match tape, which proved the referee's involvement in calculating a penalty kick from his imagination, ignoring the decision of his assistant.
Lamptee Weed Inramo
Lamptey's history is replete with many incorrect decisions, some of which the fans described as "scandalous" mistakes, most notably his calculating a goal scored by Michael Enramo for Tunisia's Esperance against Al-Ahly of Egypt, from a very clear handball in the second leg of the 2011 African Champions League semi-final.
This error led to Esperance qualifying for the final match and the exit of Al-Ahly, who objected to the clear goal of its invalidity, to no avail.
African arbitration errors
African arbitration suffers from a crisis of confidence in the teams and teams due to the repetition of serious mistakes that contributed to transforming the titles path to teams without others that would have won the title in the event that some referees did not make clear mistakes.
Although Ahmed Ahmed, the former president of the African Union (CAF), has expelled dozens of referees due to their involvement in bribery and corruption scandals, the controversial and worrying mistakes are still blatantly continuing.