Motorsport South Africa (MSA) are the latest organisation to call for Max Mosley, the president of Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), to resign.

Condemnation has rained down on the Mosley since the publication in the News of the World of details about his part in an allegedly Nazi-inspired sado-masochistic orgy which is reported to have taken place with five prostitutes in a basement flat in Chelsea, west London.

Since then a number of the world's major motoring bodies have condemned the 68-year-old, and MSA are the latest to call for Mosley to stand down.

Beaulah Schoeman, MSA's general manager, said: "While the private lives of individuals are of no concern to MSA, we cannot condone the behaviour of the FIA President. It has not only brought the FIA, but all FIA members [such as MSA] and motorsport, into disrepute. It could also result in sponsors deciding to distance themselves from motorsport. We therefore agree [unanimously] that Mr Mosley should stand down as FIA President."

The FIA have now decided that on June 3, Mosley will go before the FIA's general assembley, for a secret ballot that will decide his future as president of the organisation. In the meantime, Mosley, who has run the organisation for the past 15 years, is expected to embark on an intensive round of 'shuttle diplomacy' to try to secure his future.

Motoring organisations in the United States, Germany, Holland, Austria, Israel, Canada and New Zealand are amongst those to speak out against Mosley, with only the United Arab Emirates stating they will vote in favour of him remaining in office.