There are injury doubts around Bafana Bafana midfielders Bongani Zungu and Dean Furman as the team starts its training sessions preparing for the international friendly match against Mali at the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium on Sunday.

Proteas interim Team Director (Head Coach) Enoch Nkwe says that he is pleased with his teams’ fighting spirit in the opening Test albeit all in a losing course as they went down to India by 205 runs.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) and equipment making company Kemach JCB handed over a pitch roller to the Limpopo Cricket Association (Impala Cricket) in Polokwane today. This is the 19th of 20 rollers given to an association as part of a three year agreement between CSA and the company.

Part of head coach Molefi Ntseki’s technical team is goalkeeper coach and former Bafana goalkeeper Andre Arendse who played in a number of Nelson Mandela Challenge matches in the past against quality opposition.

Bafana have played the likes of Brazil, Argentina, France, Holland, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Egypt, Zambia and many more teams as part of this Nelson Mandela Challenge match.

Bafana players and technical team visited some of the hospital wards this morning and Maholwana has wished the men’s senior national football team all the best in their game against Mali this coming weekend.

Bafana Bafana visited the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (NMCH) in Johannesburg this morning to give hope to the kids as part of their build-up to the Nelson Mandela Challenge match against Mali in Port Elizabeth this weekend.

Mark Mayambela has finally found a new home, having been snapped up by Cape Town City. The former Chippa United Captain had been a free agent since leaving the Chilli Boys at the end of last season, and had spent the past few weeks training with Benni McCarthy’s City outfit.

Namibian sensation Helalia Johannes won the Johannesburg leg of the SPAR Women’s 10 kilometre Challenge at Marks Park Sports Club yesterday afternoon. She won the race in the record time of 33.6 seconds.

Jomo Cosmos won their first match of the 2019/20 Glad Africa Championship when they narrowly defeated Cape Umoya 1-0 at Giyani stadium this afternoon.