Lucas Ledwaba
Boxing legend ‘Smokin’ Joe’ Frazier claimed in a documentary that US soldiers temporarily laid down their arms against the Vietnamese so they could watch one of his epic bouts with Muhammad Ali.
Frazier, may his soul rest in peace, may have been exaggerating – but such is the power and impact of sport, that it can lift or sour the mood of a nation and bring countries to a standstill.
Such was the general mood in the build up to Bafana Bafana’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final clash against Nigeria last night.
Not since the days of the all-conquering 1996 Bafana team that lifted the Afcon trophy, has the nation been so buoyed by the national football team’s exploits.
During that period leading up to and a few more years after the 1998 Fifa World Cup in France, families, communities, villages, townships and suburbs came to an almost
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