{"id":17462,"date":"2013-01-21T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/bafana-considers-help-from-muti-man\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:19:21","slug":"bafana-considers-help-from-muti-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bafana-considers-help-from-muti-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana considers help from muti man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herbalist offers to help Bafana win<\/p>\n<p>East London \u2013 A herbalist from the Eastern Cape, Reuben Matewu, says he can help Bafana Bafana win matches at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa settled for a goalless draw in their Afcon opener against Cape Verde Islands at the National Stadium on Saturday, compounding concerns about their ability to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can help Bafana Bafana for free if they want and I\u2019ll do that for the first three matches,\u201d Matewu told trufm, a regional SABC radio station, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThereafter I will charge them as they would have started winning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not like those people who use bad muti. I will only use herbs, which are easily available here in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he would start charging for his services after a few matches, Matewu insisted he was not after the money.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana, the vice-president of the SA Football Association (Safa) and chairman of the Afcon local organising committee, said Matewu\u2019s offer might be considered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always welcome whatever help we can get to ensure Bafana Bafana do well,\u201d Nonkonyana said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the man speak to me and see what we can do after that.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sport\/soccer\/bafana\/herbalist-offers-to-help-bafana-win-1.1455106#.UPzo7SeKKuI\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbalist offers to help Bafana win East London \u2013 A herbalist from the Eastern Cape, Reuben Matewu, says he can help Bafana Bafana win matches at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. South Africa settled for a goalless draw in their Afcon opener against Cape Verde Islands at the National Stadium on Saturday, compounding concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}