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Hail hero Ronwen! Four penalty stops put Bafana in first Afcon semi in 24 years

Ronwen Williams spectacularly saved four spot-kicks — an almost unheard of feat — in a penalty shoot-out that Bafana Bafana won 2-1 against Cape Verde to steer the South Africans to their first Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) semifinal in 24 years on Saturday night. Earlier Bafana's captain became just the second goalkeeper after Andre Arendse in 1996 to keep four successive clean sheets at a Nations Cup finals, including […]

4 February 2024

Local

Meyiwa murder trial resumes in Pretoria High Court

The trial of the five men accused of killing former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa resumes on Monday in the High Court in Pretoria. The court was on a two-week recess. The defence had said that it needed time to consult their clients and experts on 700 photographs that were downloaded from the phone of accused number 3, Mthobisi Mncube. Source: SABC News

2 October 2023

Local

Thwala’s testimony in Meyiwa murder trial continues in Pretoria’s High Court

The cross-examination of one of Senzo Meyiwa’s friends, a state witness, Mthokozisi Thwala, will continue in Pretoria’s High Court on Thursday. Five men are on trial for the murder of the Bafana Bafana star. Thwala has been accused of evading questions by one of the defence lawyers in the murder trial of five men. He is one of Meyiwa’s friends, who were in Kelly Khumalo’s mother’s house in Voslorus, East […]

11 May 2023

Local

Accused in Senzo Meyiwa’s murder in court on Monday

The five men accused of orchestrating the murder of former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain, Senzo Meyiwa, will appear in court on Monday. After numerous delays and changes in their legal representation, the trial is expected to begin on Monday at the High Court in Pretoria. Eight years after the five men allegedly killed Meyiwa at his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo’s home in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, they deny any […]

11 April 2022

News

Safa to ask Fifa and Caf to investigate match fixing suspicions after officials’ dubious calls in Bafana game

The SA Football Association (Safa) suspects Bafana Bafana's defeat to Ghana in a crunch 2022 World Cup qualifier on Sunday night may have been fixed, and the sports body wants football governing body Fifa and the Confederation of African Football (Caf) to investigate the conduct of the match officials. Senegalese referee Maguette Ndiaye and his colleagues Samba Elhadji Malick (assistant I), Camara Djibril (assistant II) and Gueye Daouda (fourth referee) […]

15 November 2021

Bafana Bafana

Hail hero Ronwen! Four penalty stops put Bafana in first Afcon semi in 24 years

Meyiwa murder trial resumes in Pretoria High Court

Thwala’s testimony in Meyiwa murder trial continues in Pretoria’s High Court

Accused in Senzo Meyiwa’s murder in court on Monday

Safa to ask Fifa and Caf to investigate match fixing suspicions after officials’ dubious calls in Bafana game

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