Bafana Bafana will play an international friendly against neighbours Lesotho in preparation for its two Fifa World Cup qualifying matches.

Bafana Bafana have no grasp of the dark art of giant-killing, writes Carlos Amato, which you can only master if you regularly confront superior teams.

A youthful looking Bafana Bafana beat Tanzania 1-0 in their international friendly at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Saturday evening.

Aaron Mokoena has revealed he was forced to quit Blackburn and join Portsmouth to preserve his dream of captaining South Africa at the 2010 World Cup.