understands that an organisation called Zambians Association in South Africa called FAZ to ask them to call off the game as it wouldn’t have made sense to continue with the game.
The Malagasy national team was said to be ready to jump onto the flight to Johannesburg when the call came that they should call off the game as Jordaan explained in a hastily arranged press conference on Thursday night. With South African businesses around the continent receiving some backlash and some embassies being burnt like in Zambia, there’s a feeling that the SA government is not treating these latest xenophobic attacks with the urgency it deserves.With next month’s FIFA international week also assigned to international friendlies, there’s a concern that Bafana will continue to struggle to get international friendly matches with the AFCON 2021 qualifiers around the corner in November.