Tanzania’s Simba SC and Tunisia’s Esperance de Tunis emerged victorious in the East and North African TotalEnergies CAF Champions League derbies respectively on Saturday.
Simba beat Uganda’s Vipers 1-0 at the St. Mary’s Stadium in the outskirts of Kampala in the East African derby in Group C while Esperance beat
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Ronwen Williams captained an inexperienced Bafana side with Helman Mkhalele taking charge of the team in the absence of head coach Hugo Broos and his assistant Cedomir Janevski.
On the other hand, the Cranes were also looking to return to winning ways after they had succumbed to a 1-0 defeat to Malawi in the 2022 Afcon qualifier in March 2021.
Interim Uganda coach Abdallah Mubiru also named a youthful team with newly-appointed captain Emmanuel Okwi leading the East-Central African side, while Ismail Watenga started in goal.
Uganda started the match brightly with Okwi looking to make runs in behind the South Africa defence and he was involved when the Cranes broke the deadlock.
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