Bafana pocket R1.3m for Chan

Lerato Chabangu 

Despite crashing out the African Nations Championship (Chan) at the first hurdle, Bafana Bafana will pocket about R1.3 million in prize money for finishing third in their group, it was announced on Tuesday. The prize money for Chan would total about R34m the Local Organising Committee (LOC) said.

The winner of the tournament would earn about R8.1m, the runner-up about R4.3m, and the third and fourth placed teams about R2.7m each.

The losing quarterfinalists would take home about R1.9m each, the teams placed third in the group stage R1,3 million each, and those placed fourth in the group stage about R1m each.

The tournament, which is being hosted by South Africa, ends on February 1.

Bafana coach 'great at his job' - Zuma

President Jacob Zuma has come out in support of under-fire Bafana Bafana and its coach Gordon Igesund, SAfm reported on Tuesday "We're well aware that some people are criticising the way the national team played against Nigeria. Some want the team disbanded. It has improved greatly and needs our support.

"The current coach knows what he's doing. He's great at his job. The fact that the team lost, that doesn't mean anything as other teams lost as well," the president told SAfm in isiZulu.

The interview was translated into English by the public broadcaster.

Zuma was speaking after Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula on Monday called Bafana Bafana a "bunch of losers" after losing to Nigeria in the 2014 African Nations Championship.

Lawsuit seeks CIA papers on Mandela arrest

Washington - An American student lodged a lawsuit against the CIA on Wednesday in an attempt to secure documents that purportedly show the intelligence agency was complicit in former president Nelson Mandela's arrest.

Mandela, who died last month aged 95, was detained in 1962, convicted in the Rivonia Trial and incarcerated for decades under the country's then apartheid rulers.

Ryan Shapiro, a PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), filed the legal action after the CIA failed to comply with Freedom of Information requests he submitted to the agency regarding Mandela's arrest.

"Although US intelligence has long been known to have been involved in the arrest of Mandela, little detailed information is available," Shapiro's lawsuit states, seeking details on the CIA's alleged view of Mandela as a threat.

Shapiro contends that the CIA has refused to release the requested papers.

Questioned by AFP about the suit, lodged at a federal court in Washington, Dean Boyd, a spokesperson for the CIA , said: "The CIA generally refrains from commenting on court cases pending before the courts."

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