In what seems a desperate bid to find form, Safa has arranged a friendly game for Bafana Bafana against Australia’s Socceroos in the United Kingdom.
In a swap transfer deal, midfielder Tyren Arendse will return from Sundowns to Santos, while Thando Mngomeni will move from Santos to Downs.
The annual PSL transfer market is in full swing, with Bafana flyer Sibusiso Zuma’s switch from Arminia Bielefeld to Sundowns the juiciest item.
Bafana Bafana on Saturday played a catastrophic 0-0 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying draw against 163rd-ranked Sierra Leone.
It was one of those ”could have been worse, could have been better” draws for South Africa’s two Wimbledon tennis championships hopefuls.
Needing all the help they can get on the evidence of their insipid 2-0 defeat against Nigeria on the weekend, Bafana Bafana were on Monday urgently seeking to rehabilitate their walking wounded before the vital second African Nations Cup qualifier against Equatorial Guinea at the Super Stadium on Saturday.
South Africa’s highest-rated boxer, Silence Mabuza, silenced raging Argentinean tornado Damien Marchiano to retain his IBO world bantamweight title with a rousing fifth-round TKO win on Saturday night. Although relatively slightly built, even for the bantamweight division, Marchiano performed more like a raging bull from the Pampas at the opening bell.
Articulate, incisive boxer Silence Mabuza is rated fifth best in his division in the world by the authoritative Ring magazine. And, taking this assessment at face value, the versatile bantamweight champion should have little trouble in accounting for little-known Argentinean journeyman Damien Marchiano on Saturday night.
He was what could justifiably be termed a soccer ”natural”, instinctively going about his business on the field, doing the right thing at the right time. But the tragic death of likeable Wits University and former Bafana Bafana striker Abram Raselemane in Bloemfontein on Tuesday at a time when he was barely into his 30s was anything but natural.
Bafana Bafana’s technical and communications staff were seemingly in a tizzy on Monday after confirmation that Benson Mhlongo had smashed his ankle and petulant Benni McCarthy had broken his word to arrive at the training camp on Monday prior to Sunday’s crucial African Nations qualifier against Nigeria.