Dylan Bettencourt
Inhlangano yaseNingizimu Afrika yebhola (i-SAFA) isimemezele ukuthi bonke asebegomele i-Covid-19 bazongena mahhala enkundleni yomdlalo weBafana Bafana ne-Ethiopia njengoba bazobe belwela ukungena kwindebe yomhlaba mhla ziyi-12 kuMfumfu.
Umdlalo ozoba enkundleni yase-FNB uzoba ngowokuqala ezinyangeni eziyi-19 eNingizimu Afrika ukufaka abalandeli enkundleni.
UMengameli uCyril Ramaphosa umemezele ngoLwesine ukuthi inani lokuhlangana kwabantu ngaphandle sekuvumeleke ukuba babe izi-2000 kulandela ukubuyiselwa kwezwe esigabeni sokuqala somvalelandlini.
I-SAFA ikhiphe isitatimende esithi bazongena mahhala enkundleni asebegomile, baphinde bathi umdlalo we-Kaizer Chiefs kanye ne-Orlando Pirate ozobe usenkundleni yase-Soweto Derby ufana nomdlalo obalulekile lapho khona abalandeli bangase bavumeleke ukungena ngaphakathi.
“Mayelana nokubuyela kwabalandeli enkundleni, i-SAFA NEC ithe ibhola kumele lidlale indima enkulu ekugonyweni kwabantu. Khonamanjalo, abalandeli abagomile kuphela abazovumeleka ukungena mahhala kulo mdlalo ozayo wokulwela ukungena kwindebe yomhlaba ngonyaka wezi-2022 ophakathi kweNingizimu Afrika kanye ne-Ethopia okulindeleke ukuba udlale mhla ziyi-12 kuMfumfu,” kufundeka isitatimende.
“I-NSL isithathe isinqumo sokusebenzisa i-Soweto Derby ukuze bagqugquzele abantu abaningi ukuba bajove. Uma abantu abajovayo bekhula, lokho kuzovula amathuba amaningi kumnotho wabantu abadayisa imkhiqizo yabo.”
Inkundla ethwala abantu abayi-90,000 kuzobonakala izihlalo ezingenamuntu emdlalweni weBafana Bafana njengoba kuzofakwa abalandeli abayizi-2000, kodwa kulindeleke ukuba bajabule kakhulu ikakhulukazi laba abangakaze babe senkundleni cishe iminyaka emibili.
INingizimu Africa inezinhloso zokubama indebe yomhlaba ngoZibandlela ngemuva kokuba i-Japan ebiqokiwe ihoxe.
“Imigomo ye-FIFA yokuba kubanjwe ithonamenti, ithi abalandeli kumele bavumeleke ukungena enkundleni. I-SAFA ibuka lokhu njengento ezosiza kakhulu ukugqugquzela abantu bathathe umjovo we-Covid-19 futhi basebenzisana nohulumeni ngalokhu ukuze kunyuswe isibalo sabantu abajovayo.
Inhloso yeNingizimu Afrika ukufika kwinani labantu abajovile abangamaphesenti angama-70 ngaphambi kokuba bavumele abalandeli babuyele enkundleni.
Babalelwa cishe kumaphesenti angama-21 abantu asebegome ngokuphelele eNingizimu Afrika.
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