Bathathe Bafana: South Africa's World Cup Journey

A World Cup date with Czechia, and where FIFA's got it all wrong

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About this episode

News24 football journalists Tashreeq Vardien and Njabulo Ngidi catch-up ahead of Bafana's second pool clash with Czechia. Ngidi crosses live from Atlanta in the US, the next…

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