After what feels like an eternity of bickering, negotiation and name-calling, SAFA and Stanton Woodrush have finally come to an agreement that will ensure that SAFA has the exclusive rights to the national team’s nickname Bafana Bafana.

The chairman of the ad hock committee set up to resolve this whole mess, announced that the two parties had finally agreed on terms.

The agreement says that for R5 million we will, as SAFA, own the rights to the name Bafana Bafana. We are very very happy to announce that SAFA will fully exploit the name Bafana Bafana.

As SAFA, we are glad that the negotiations went very well and that is why we reached this agreement. We know there were many price tags in the media but we could not go with that and hence we involved ourselves in the willing buyer and willing seller negotiations.

Since February we have been in these fruitful negotiations and today (Friday) we announce this important and good news that SAFA now owns the name and rights to the name Bafana Bafana. We are all happy now.

Finally I will no longer have to hear radio DJs going on about how the nation should own the name and how wrong it is for an evil corporation to have it. Now luckily SAFA, a corporation free from all forms of sin, is the rightful owner of the name and we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief.

[Source : Sport24]