Johannesburg - Bafana Bafana are shifting focus and gearing up for perhaps their toughest mission over the next few months - the 2018 Fifa World Cup African zone qualifiers. South Africa has been drawn in Group D alongside Burkina Faso, Senegal and Cape Verde, with only one team due to qualify for Russia 2018. Bafana will start their campaign with a visit to Burkina Faso on October 8 at Stade Du 4 Aout in Ouagadougou. This will be followed by a home match against Senegal that will take place on Saturday, November 12 at a venue still to be confirmed. There will then be a seven-month break from the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, with World Cup qualification action resuming in August 2017 when South Africa faces Cape Verde in back-to-back clashes. The first match will be away on the weekend of August 1 and 2 in Cape Verde, before Bafana welcome them in South Africa on Tuesday, September 5 with the venue still to be announced. South Africa will then host Burkina Faso on Saturday, October 7 2017 before rounding off the qualifiers with an away match to Senegal on the weekend of November 10 2017.
African News Agency (ANA)