THE South African Football Association (Safa) promised on Sunday to deal harshly with those who abused Al Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane before a CAF Champions League match this weekend.
People wearing the colours of host club Mamelodi Sundowns temporarily blocked a bus carrying the Egyptian team to a Pretoria stadium and held placards, many of which contained abuse aimed at Mosimane.
Mosimane guided Sundowns with huge success from 2012 until last September when he became the first sub-Saharan African to coach Ahly since the club was formed in 1907.
“These individuals not only humiliated coach Pitso Mosimane‚ they brought the name of the country into disrepute,” said Safa chief executive Tebogo Motlanthe.
“Safa will leave no stone unturned in identifying these individuals and hand out the harshest of penalties to them.
“Mosimane is our proud ambassador and what these people did needs to be condemned by all civilised people,” said
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