{"id":20150,"date":"2013-06-04T21:32:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/comrades-winner-inspires-bafana\/"},"modified":"2013-06-04T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T19:32:38","slug":"comrades-winner-inspires-bafana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/comrades-winner-inspires-bafana\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrades winner inspires Bafana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4028\" alt=\"Bafana Bafana Celebrate - Moroka Swallows Online\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c4804_Bafana-Bafana-celebrate-23-01-2013-300-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bafana Bafana Celebrate \u2013 Moroka Swallows Online<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Africa national football team\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_national_football_team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bafana Bafana<\/a>\u00a0have been challenged by\u00a0<a title=\"South African Football Association\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_African_Football_Association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">South African Football Association<\/a>\u00a0(Safa) president Kirsten Nematandani to follow in the footsteps of 2013 Comrades Marathon winner Claude Moshiywa in their crucial World Cup qualifying matches against the Central African Republic (CAR) and Ethiopia in the coming two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Moshiywa broke free in the last third of the Comrades Marathon in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, to end the foreign stranglehold on the \u201cup run\u201d as he became the first South African to win the Durban-to-Pietermaritzburg version of the race in 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate Claude [Moshiywa] for showing that this country is a nation of winners,\u201d Nematandani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaude is an embodiment of South Africa\u2019s winning spirit, and I want to take this opportunity to urge our Bafana Bafana players who depart for Cameroon and Ethiopia today to take a leaf out of Moshiywa\u2019s book, that if you are determined in whatever you want to achieve, nothing is impossible.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southafrica.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">SAinfo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/47fef_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana Celebrate \u2013 Moroka Swallows Online Bafana Bafana\u00a0have been challenged by\u00a0South African Football Association\u00a0(Safa) president Kirsten Nematandani to follow in the footsteps of 2013 Comrades Marathon winner Claude Moshiywa in their crucial World Cup qualifying matches against the Central African Republic (CAR) and Ethiopia in the coming two weeks. 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