“I feel like for the first time, the Church is realising that the young people are serious,” said Yebo, who attended the protests before they turned violent and wanted to remain anonymous.

On the eve of the final, the leading Afrikaans-language daily Beeld's front-page headline was written in Zulu: 'Yebo Bafana Bafana!'

Yebo! it was well done, and it was a great fight.

Yebo—Amazulus; and they lie as still as the blades of grass beneath them.

Yebo, we must fly to the mountain and hide.