Former Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has called on the South African Football Association (Safa) to set up a round-table meeting with local-born, former national coaches as a matter of urgency.

According to Sport24, Barker — who guided South Africa to the 1996 African Nations Cup title on home soil — is alarmed by the way Brazilian coach Joel Santana is wrecking the national side.

"What Safa must do urgently is get all the local-born former Bafana coaches who had success with Bafana, such as myself, Trott Moloto, Shakes Mashaba and Jomo Sono, to a meeting to try and plan a way forward. We are going backwards with Santana. He is way out of his depth," fumed Barker.

He added: "How on earth could Safa appoint a coach who cannot speak English? It is mind boggling. What were Safa thinking? We have credible coaches in South Africa who can do a far better job."

Barker laid much of the blame at the door of Safa Chief Executive Officer Raymond Hack.

"I will tell Hack to his face when I see him that I am very disappointed in the way he is running Safa. By appointing Santana, who has no experience of international soccer, Safa are making Bafana a laughing stock.

"We need to stop the rot quickly. My solution is to get a body of former Bafana coaches to run the ship in the meantime. We all had some success so we could not be that bad."

Barker also questioned why Santana's assistant, former SuperSport United coach Pitso Mosimane, was not in charge of the national team.

"Pitso should be putting his hand up. He would do a better job than Santana. But does he want to be the big man or a number two for the rest of his career?"

Barker also expressed his disappointment at the recent Bafana losses against Nigeria and Guinea.

"Our home stadiums were like fortresses and yet visiting teams were scoring here. Now we are the whipping boys, we cannot even beat minnows like Sierra Leone at home. It has got to stop," concluded Barker.