The South African Football Journalist Association (Safja) has criticised the lack of access by South African (SA) media to the national soccer team Bafana Bafana camp.
Safja Chairperson Velile Mnyandu says there has been very little or no access to the Senior national team for the media in the 2026 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup in both Mexico and the United States.
The media has been left frustrated with no regular updates on the team.
Mnyandu says it is unacceptable to deny the media regular access to the team.
He says, “So this is a popular phenomenon that access to the team, especially to the travelling media, becomes something that is there and also for the media houses to justify why they would spend hundreds of thousands of rands for the journalists to be here. We don’t know, we’ve never really received an exact explanation on why this is happening, but as I say with other camps, it is different.”
–SABC–
