Afcon
Here’s the Bafana Bafana squad to face Sao Tome
Veteran goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune headlines returnees in the 25-man squad as he last featured for the national team in 2018 in a game against Nigeria.
The new timing will avoid a clash with Fifa’s revamped 24-team Club World Cup to be played in China in June and July 2021.
The defeat means South Africa will have to win in the 3rd/4th place playoff match against Ghana on Friday to book a ticket to next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
With goal scoring still a problem within the side, the national team's coach says he will be using the break before their next game to recruit new talent.
Bafana Bafana has beat Sudan 1-0 on Sunday.
South Africa face Ghana on Thursday, 14 November 2019, in Accra followed by a clash against Sudan on Sunday, 17 November, at Orlando Stadium.
Thapelo Morena is nursing an injury while Darren Keet is finalising his work permit in Belgium, which requires him to stay in that country until all the paperwork is done.
The former Bafana Bafana striker says the national football team did well and the country should accept the effort that they put in during the tournament.
According to coach Nicolas Dupuis, a number of players, such as Abel and Ibrahim Amada, had given on up the national side because “they did not think it was taken seriously”.
It was originally planned to use VAR from the semi-final stage but it will now be brought in from the last eight games.
The decision had been "a moral obligation" said the Egyptian FA in a statement after "disappointing Egypt's supporters" in a 1-0 defeat to South Africa.
From promising to give away phones and cars, to mopping the N2, Bafana Bafana silenced their crtics by beating Egypt 1-0.
Mane broke the deadlock in the 15th minute of a physical game after Senegal pounced on a mistake by Uganda.
Former Banyana Banyana captain Amanda Dlamini said Bafana Bafana have to apply themselves in the whole 90 minutes to win their Afcon game against Egypt on Saturday.
Bafana Bafana scored just once in an unimpressive group stage campaign that featured a 1-0 win over Namibia and defeats to Côte d'Ivoire and Morocco by the same scoreline.
Angola losing meant South Africa sneaked into the knockout phase, joining Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Benin as the best four third-place teams.
Bafana Bafana's hope of reaching the knockout stages of the Africa Cup of Nations is out of their hands, after losing 1-0 to Morocco on Monday.
Bongani Zungu netted from a Percy Tau corner to give Bafana Bafana their first win of the competition.
Centre-back Omeruo headed a corner into the net on 73 minutes to earn the Super Eagles a second straight Group B victory after beating Burundi by the same score four days ago.