How S’busiso Mseleku was part of a crack Sowetan sports team who coined the nickname Bafana Bafana marc_strydom
“The ‘Bafana Bafana’ was … about the rhythm. If it had just been Bafana‚ it would not have been the way I wanted it to sound. It’s Bafana Bafana.
“They still considered themselves to be as youthful as when they started that group‚ which is what I transferred to this national team.”“I think I should tell you about that because some people have been getting it wrong when I’ve been listening to the news‚” he said. “The team was called Sowetan Dazzlers. There was a friend of Molefi’s‚ who would always accompany us wherever we played – I think his name was Jerry – who was our Celtic kind of fan. He would be on the touchline shouting‚ ‘Come on Bafana Bafana’. So that became Dazzlers’ nickname.
“It was Molefi’s turn to write the column‚ and he would send it to me so we agreed. I saw he had thrown in the words Bafana Bafana for the national team. And I knew where it had come from because we loved it as Dazzlers.
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