Mandla Ncikazi confirmed that he received CAF's warning letter and acknowledged his mistake. However, the Orlando Pirates co-coach is not willing to apologise for his remarks about the club being treated like "animals in Tanzania.
The Pirates coach was served with the letter by CAF following a formal complaint by Simba. The Tanzanian giants claimed Ncikazi's behaviour was "unsporting".
Ncikazi says his only blunder was to use the wrong platform [media] to accuse Simba of mistreating Pirates.
Although the Bucs tactician was reluctant to elaborate on the alleged mistreatment, he said: "As Africans, let us change this mentality that when opponents come to Tanzania, you are so hostile to them that you treat them like animals."
This was after Pirates suffered a 1-0 defeat against Simba in the CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinal first leg in Dar es Salaam last month.
"I think CAF understood what was in the letter of my response. I apologised to CAF; maybe the utterances were uttered on the wrong platform; we could have channelled the utterances differently," Ncikazi told the media.
"Maybe to say them the way I did and in the platform that I used was not the correct one, and that was my apology but not for another incident that really takes place in Africa; there is no apology.
"But for what I said and the platform and the way I said that for that one, I apologise."
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