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Article: Football: Mbeki calls for 'Bafana Bafana' name to be dropped
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- October 23, 2007
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
10-23-2007
Football: Mbeki calls for 'Bafana Bafana' name to be dropped
by Isaac Mangena
ATTENTION - ADDS reax ///
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 23, 2007 (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki has
called for the national football team to drop its Bafana Bafana (The Boys)
nickname, saying it was unsuitable for the hosts of the 2010 World Cup.
With Mbeki's governing African National Congress (ANC) party wanting the
Springbok rugby team to lose its nickname, the president said in a radio
interview there should be a rethink about the names of all the national teams,
including the women's football team Banyana Banyana (The Girls).
"What kind of a name ...