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- ↑ "Simplex Nthala". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ↑ The Standard Bank of South Africa > AFCON > AFCON 2010 tournament Archived January 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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