South Africans are banking on Orlando Pirates to win the CAF Confederation Cup final against Etoile Sahel of Tunisia and end a 14-year African club trophy drought for the country.
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Orlando Stadium in Soweto hosts the first leg of the second-tier competition decider this Saturday with the return match next Sunday at Stade Olympique in Mediterranean resort Sousse.
Kaizer Chiefs, the arch domestic rivals of Pirates, were the last South African winners of a CAF competition, defeating InterClube of Angola in the 2001 final of the now defunct African Cup Winners Cup.
In the mid-1990s, Pirates lifted the African Cup of Champions Clubs (now CAF Champions League) and the CAF Super Cup.
But since Chiefs' success only the Buccaneers have come close to halting the barren spell, losing the 2013 Champions League final to the most successful club in CAF competitions, 19-title Al Ahly of Egypt.
A lack of passion in often hostile environments is among the reasons for the lack of success by South African clubs, with many fielding understrength sides and making early exits
