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Article: A very bad week for giants of SA football.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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BYLINE: Janet Smith
It's been a miserable week for footballers, even though it began so well for Bafana Bafana legend Phil Masinga. He turned 40 on Sunday, but by Wednesday, Sowetan's lead story would probably have all but dimmed that shine.
In repeating the testimony of a witness in the trial of perhaps an even greater Bafana Bafana legend, Doctor Khumalo, its lead headline extrapolated: How Chippa tried to save Doctor.
Khumalo has denied he was drunk when he crashed his BMW into the back of a taxi on the N1 highway in May last year. The jaws of life had to free a woman who was in the car with him. But the media this week paused on the ...