This was a forgettable year for South African football as far as the senior national team Bafana Bafana are concerned. Bafana were lucky to get an easy qualifying group for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Africa, the oil-rich hosts on the west coast of central Africa. As it is, the country will watch the best of African football battle out for honours without SA's involvement, for the second edition in a row. It does not offer any consolation to say former champions and powerhouses Cameroon and Nigeria have also failed to qualify. Their problems have nothing to do with us, when our house is falling apart despite all the available resources to fix it. Failure to stamp their authority against lightweights such as Niger and Sierra Leone was appalling and as a result we were rightfully excluded from the continental showpiece in January. Even more horrifying, Bafana played their fourth match against Sierra Leone this year, and are still to score a goal again
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