The National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS) with respect to the participation of CAF Suspended Referees; Thulani Sibandze and Petros Mbingo; hereby states the referees in question were given a green light to participate in the fitness tests primarily to keep them in good physical/ fitness shape for their resumption of duties once their suspension has elapsed.
The very referees; in spite of their suspension; were allowed to participate in a fitness test earlier; in Maputo, Mozambique together with FIFA Accredited referees that could not be successful in the initial fitness test hosted in Swaziland at the instance of the FIFA MA Refereeing Course in August 2017; particularly given that they needed to have passed a fitness test for any possible international registration and they are still members or a part of the current 2017 FIFA Lists of Referees and Assistant Referees. All of these have been done in consultation with the pertinent authorities.