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MNINAWA NTLOKO: How hot-headed Shakes shot himself in the foot
Bafana's coach delivered on his World Cup mandate but is too thin-skinned, writes Mninawa Ntloko
A video clip of South African Football Association (Safa) communications official Mahlomola Morake and SABC journalist Kwena Moabelo desperately trying to calm down a seething Ephraim ‘‘Shakes" Mashaba perhaps gives the best insight into the chaotic scenes that led to the Bafana Bafana coach’s suspension on Sunday. Bafana had just beaten the star-studded Senegal 2-1 in a 2018 World Cup qualifier at Peter Mokaba Stadium and Moabelo was about to conduct a postmatch interview with Mashaba on SABC television. But Mashaba was so angry at the world that he risked ruining his reputation on national TV and talking his way into an instant sacking if he had been allowed to go on air. The few seconds of that video are pretty intense. An incredibly irate Mashaba looks as if he is about to burst the throbbing vein in his forehead. Morake and Moabelo try their best to calm him down, but he keeps insisting on being allowed to go on air and tell pesky journalists including his bosses, exactly where...
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