Safa letter could hold key to $10m World Cup bribe claim

A letter sent from South Africa to Fifa headquarters "instructing" the world's soccer body to pay $10-million to a Caribbean football union holds the key to the FBI's sensational claim that South Africa bought the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

The Sunday Times has had sight of the letter, dated March 2008, and signed by then South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant.

In it Oliphant tells Fifa to pay over the money - about R120-million at today's rates - to the Caribbean Football Union.

Oliphant, contacted for comment yesterday, initially wanted to know who had given the letter to the Sunday Times.

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