Strengthen Mashaba’s technical team: Mazola Molefe

When there’s no pressure Bafana Bafana performs but come crunch time, they can’t meet the expectations, that’s the view of The Star senior football journalist Mazola Molefe. He was speaking after the South African senior national football men’s team failed to win against Cameroon midweek in Durban leaving them winless in four 2017 AFCON qualifiers. With the chance to qualify for Gabon up in the smoke, the focus will move to the 2018 World Cup qualifiers starting in October this year. In this wide-ranging interview with SABC Sport journalist Velile Mbuli, Molefe says Mashaba should still be given a chance but strengthen his technical team. As SAFA prepares for another National Executive committee meeting this weekend and with a number of questions around the Bafana technical team, Molefe also speaks about what appears to be a cold war between Mashaba and SAFA’s Technical Director Neil Tovey…