South Africa and Mali meet in the final match of the 2015 CAFU17 championship in Niamey for the right to be crowned African junior champions.
The Amajimbos, term for boys in local South African dialect, are in the final for the first time while Mali were runners-up in 1997 in Botswana after a 1-0 defeat at the hands of the junior Pharaohs. Amajimbos best ever finish was a fourth placement in 2005 in Gambia where they lost the third place playoff match to Cote d'Ivoire.
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