Often in life rejection can be a need to make one better. Call it a refinery process. It puts one at a crossroad where a choice to let things become gretar. That is the story of Themba Zwane when, against the grain, he was dropped from the national team.
We all knew ‘Mshishi’ was great and should top the list of any national selector in the continent. It would seem though, all of us except Hugo Broos. As the decibels of the supporters’ cries to have their beloved footballer increased, the more the coach heard none of it.
“A wise man always changes his mind”, so too did the Belgian mentor when he eventually decided to give Mangethe his first call up during his tenure. Ironically this came when the masses had stopped complaining and were somewhat not raving about Mamelodi Sundowns’ wizard performance in his opening stanza of the 22/23 season.
In true Mshishi style the man showed his class when he carried the 12th ranked nation in the continent to an emphatic 4-0 victory against Sierra Leone when he begged 2 of those goals. The only downside to this was that less that 200 supporters witnessed the spectacle at the stadium.
Bafana will play their next friendly against Botswana on Tuesdays the 27th of September at 3pm.
By Lekoko
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