What is ailing South African football?

In the early 1990s, South African men’s football team carried the hopes of millions, that it would bring together a divided nation at the end of apartheid.

In July 1992, the team was readmitted to FIFA after a nearly 30 year ban.

However, Bafana Bafana have failed to make a lasting impact and observers are divided on the reasons.

Some former national team greats say its problems come from a lack of consistency, others point to the absence of South Africans in top European leagues as an…