Four COSAFA teams play ‘home’ matches in SA

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Four COSAFA members, facing stadium unavailability, have turned to South Africa as their home ground.

Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and Zimbabwe are still battling to put their houses in order and are forced to play their home matches on foreign soil.

All four have found South Africa to be a convenient host. Malawi was the fifth COSAFA member that regularly played its matches in South Africa but has since returned home following CAF’s approval of Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe last year.

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