Excited fans have begun arriving for the opening game of the third Africa Nations Championship here tonight - between hosts South Africa and Mozambique, following a colourful and lively opening ceremony which paid tribute to the late Nelson Mandela.
"The gees (spirit) is wonderful and we are already winning," said Capetonian Thabo Madiehe, who said he and his two friends would watch both the South Africa versus Mozambique game at 6pm and the Mali-Nigeria match at 9pm, both set to take place at Cape Town Stadium.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article