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We should celebrate the appointment of Kolo Touré as Leicester City assistant manager. One just hopes that the Ivorian becomes a great ambassador for Africa on this road less travelled, writes SBu_Mseleku

Ivorian international defender Kolo Touré

Even here in South Africa, you can count on one hand the mentors who have worked in other African countries, and those would be mostly our neighbours, such as eSwatini, Namibia, Lesotho and Botswana. I immediately called myself to order. I remembered Mark Anthony’s prose in his farewell speech to Julius Caesar that “ambition should be made of sterner stuff”.

 

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SBu_Mseleku Wow ,saw him on the bench , thought he was playing

SBu_Mseleku Congrats to him, LiecesterCity , you are always ahead of the rest. AFRICANMAGIC.

SBu_Mseleku KoloToure well done son of the soil, keep flying the African flag high

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