Danny Jordaan, the chief executive of the 2010 World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC), has rejected reports that the body is beset by persistent fighting and mistrust among senior managers.
His comments came as the LOC's top brass were due to clarify persistent rumours of deepening divisions within their ranks at a media briefing on Monday.
This follows a week of speculation of a rift within the LOC and rumours that the committee's head of marketing and communications, Tim Modise, was on the verge of leaving.
Modise - the celebrity talk-show host who was hired with much fan- fare - has refused to comment on the speculation of his departure
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On Sunday a newspaper alleged that the LOC was facing a staff exodus due to unhappiness, and that Jordaan had a stormy relationship with LOC chairperson Irvin Khoza.
Allegations that Modise was about to quit were compounded by the suspension of the LOC's human resources manager, Nomzamo Kasasa.
Jordaan told the Cape Argus on Sunday that he and Modise were due to meet on Monday.
He also denied the allegations of a rift adding that it was "difficult to respond to unnamed sources".
"This thing that I am fighting with Khoza is a lie. I am surprised to read all of these things," he said.
"Since 2004, we have only had two resignations, which is not a staff exodus. Tim is at work, and I will be meeting him tomorrow … I don't know where these allegations are coming from."
Jordaan's latest comments follow his confident message to the country at the weekend that "only an act of God" could take the World Cup away from South Africa.
He told a gathering in Cape Town that South Africa's World Cup would be the best the world had seen and, at the same time, would leave the country with better infrastructure, increased tourism and greater foreign investment.
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