Cape Town — Mamelodi Sundowns are chartering a plane to take them into the heart of the Congo later this week as they prepare for their bid to add another African Champions League star to their badge.

It will cost hundreds of thousands of rand, but there is little alternative if Sundowns are to avoid a bone-jarring‚ energy-sapping and mentally frustrating journey to Owando‚ which lies on the Kouyou River in the middle of the country...

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