South African mining magnate Patrice Motsepe was re-elected unopposed as Confederation of African Football president Wednesday.

Reuters reports that the firebrand Motsepe was re elected at the organisation’s congress at the CAF headquarters in Cairo.

Meanwhile, four-time African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto’o won a place on the CAF executive committee.

Eto'o who has been in charge of the Cameroon Football Federation for the last three years had shown a strong desire to rise to the upper echelons of African football leadership in the past and he got his wish during the Congress.

Eto'o was also elected unopposed as a representative for the Central African region on the executive committee less than a week after winning an appeal to stand for the post.

He was excluded by CAF's governance committee in January but appealed his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS.

Former World Cup footballer Eto'o had been twice banned last year.

In September, FIFA banned him from attending the national team's matches for six months for violating disciplinary regulations, after allegedly verbally abusing match officials at the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia.

Kenya's football chief Hussein Mohammed is also attending the Congress and took part in the voting process.

The 63-year-old Motsepe, whose family trust owns one of the continent’s biggest clubs Mamelodi Sundowns, will serve a second four-year term after being first elected in 2021 when his candidature was also unopposed and heavily backed by FIFA president Gianni Infantino.