South Africa’s Siphiwe Tshabalala celebrates after scoring the opening goal during their 2010 Fifa World Cup Group A match against Mexico at Soccer City in June 2010.
Nine South Africans have scored a total of 11 goals at the Fifa World Cup since Bafana Bafana's debut in 1998.
Shaun Bartlett and Benni McCarthy are the top goalscorers for the nation at the showpiece event, with two apiece.
With Bafana Bafana set to play their first tournament in 16 years in three weeks' time, opening against Mexico in Mexico City, we relive the goals scored by South Africans.
McCarthy headed into the World Cup in France as the joint top goalscorer — alongside Egypt's Hossam Hassan — of the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations, so there would have been a measure of pressure and anticipation on the then 20-year-old to keep his scoring boots fastened tightly to his feet.
