This applies to FAs/Federations/Confederations/FIFA: How Corrupt Systems Are Designed to Exhaust You Down, as they would say: By @mazibuko_king (pictured) 1. The Legal-Administrative Trick: Multi-layered appeal structures designed to be navigated sequentially, each layer requiring months or years, each layer controlled by the same interests. Arbitration tribunals that never schedule hearings, practical example-cases pending since 2019 at the SAFA Arbitration Tribunal, with no arbitrators appointed and no explanation given. Arbitrators appointed unilaterally from outside agreed panels, forcing victims to object and restart processes rather than accept compromised adjudicators. Procedural requirements that change mid-process, new documentation demands, new formatting rules, new deadlines that reset progress. "Lost" submissions and "misfiled" appeals, requiring repeated resubmission while statute of limitation clocks continue running. 2. The Financial Attrition Machine Trick: Filing fees at every level, each appeal, each objection, each application carries costs that accumulate while the system delivers nothing. Legal representation requirements, the system becomes so complex that victims must hire lawyers, while the institution uses in-house counsel paid by member subscriptions. Forced travel for hearings, venues located far from communities, requiring transport, accommodation, and lost work days. Document production costs, demands for multiple certified copies, expensive printing, courier delivery of physical submissions. No cost orders against the institution, even when they lose, they rarely pay the victim's costs, because the system protects itself. 3. The Psychological Warfare Component Trick Endless rescheduling, hearings set and cancelled, reset, and cancelled again, keeping victims in perpetual uncertainty. Last-minute changes, venue changes, time changes, panel changes communicated just hours before, forcing scramble and stress. Intentionally vague communications, letters that promise responses "in due course," decisions "in due time," keeping victims waiting indefinitely. Gaslighting public statements, institutions publicly claim victims are "frivolous" or "ill-informed" while privately refusing to engage. Character assassination, victims are painted as troublemakers, disgruntled former insiders, or agents of external forces. 4. The Constitutional Trap Trick Mandatory internal remedies clauses, written into constitutions specifically to block direct access to courts, forcing victims into rigged systems. Exhaustion requirements, victims must prove they have exhausted every internal avenue before any external forum will hear them, even when those avenues are demonstrably dysfunctional "Without prejudice" traps, settlement discussions used to extract information or commitments that later prejudice formal cases. Confidentiality clauses, used to silence victims who have experienced injustice within the system. Statute of limitations running, while internal processes drag on, time limits for external legal action expire. 5. The Information Asymmetry Trick Documents held by the institution, financial records, meeting minutes, correspondence that victims need but cannot access without litigation. No discovery in internal processes, victims must prove their case without seeing the other side's evidence. Selective disclosure, institutions release only documents that support their position, hiding everything else. Witness intimidation, potential supporters and witnesses are warned that speaking to victims will have consequences, even real death treats and death. Leaked counter-narratives, institutions selectively leak damaging information about victims to media while withholding exculpatory evidence. Which you might witness some, indirectly and directly in such platforms👇🏾