SAfrica may have to drop Bafana Bafana nickname

South Africa may have to drop their Bafana Bafana nickname, because of copyright issues.



South African Football Association president, Kirsten Nematandani, says it was reported that a local businessman acquired the rights to the moniker in 1994, with its current owners believed to have made a profit of $10 million from it during the World Cup.



He further says the future of the nickname was being discussed at a national level.



He says the Bafana Bafana name, which South African Football Association uses on much of its official literature and is the popular term in South Africa for the national team, will have to be changed despite being a national asset.



South African Football Association began an extended legal battle in 1997 to claim rights over Bafana Bafana, but South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed it in 2002.



There are no suggestions the current owners of the brand will sue the federation for using the term, but the country's football association is unable to market it and make money from it.