South African U20 caretaker coach Helman Mkhalele says credit should go to his players for bouncing back after the draw with Madagascar to convincingly beating Lesotho 4-0 and advance to the COSAFA U20 Championship semi-finals in Lusaka, Zambia.
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is forced to consider opposition from outside Africa for the next international week next month in the wake of the xenophobic attacks that affected the Bafana Bafana camp last week.
Pope Francis was welcomed by palm frond-waving crowds in Mauritius on Monday as he drove past sugarcane fields on his way to the capital, where he said a Mass on a terraced mountainside overlooking the harbour.
As a shocked world watches fires ravage the Amazon, slash-and-burn farmers are wreaking proportionally worse destruction half a world away in Madagascar, driving humanity’s smallest relative – the Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur – to extinction.
The xenophobic attacks that have engulfed South Africa this week, forced the South African Football Association (SAFA) on Thursday to call off Bafana Bafana’s camp following the rejection by their opponents this week.