# Bafana Bafana

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The men's national association football (soccer) representative team of South Africa.

## Etymology
From bafana (boys), plural of the Zulu umfana. Apparently first used by journalists in Soweto in the early 1990s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bafana-bafana