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South African football hit by new match fixing claim

South African football was embroiled in another scandal today when FIFA said the national team's World Cup qualifying win over Senegal last year was fixed.<br/><br/>In banning Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey for life, world soccer's governing body said, the outcome of South Africa's 2-1 home win in African Group D in November had been contrived.<br/><br/>The revelation follows allegations that South Africa paid a 10 million dollars bribe to help secure the rights to the 2010 World Cup and that officials were duped by an Asian betting syndicate over the results of warm-up matches before the finals.<br/><br/>South Africa is still reeling from the allegations made by US prosecutors that a payment of 10 million dollars to former FIFA vice president Jack Warner during the country's successful bid to stage the 2010 World Cup was a bribe.

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