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  "path": "/thought-leader/opinion/2026-05-28-caf-complicit-in-south-african-football-suffering-continental-gamesmanship-often-off-field/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T14:30:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Opinion",
    "Thought Leader",
    "Bafana Bafana",
    "Confederation of African Football (CAF)",
    "Lubumbashi",
    "Lucky Lekgwathi",
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  "textContent": "Football should reward skill, not survival of the shrewdest. South African teams offer professionalism and infrastructure that uplift the continent. Allowing gamesmanship to thrive diminishes all of that. CAF owes African football’s integrity a level playing field. If not, South African sides have every right to fight fire with calculated, rules-based fire",
  "title": "CAF complicit in South African football suffering continental gamesmanship, often off-field"
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