The 2010 World Cup hosts, South Africa have tasked their new national team coach Hugo Broos with restoring Bafana Bafana’s glory.

South Africa Football Association President, Danny Jordaan, told the press in Johannesburg on Wednesday that the man, who took Cameroon to the AFCON glory in 2017, had been handed a five-year contract.

“It was a unanimous decision endorsing the decision from the technical committee. We we want to be back where we were in 1996. Hugo Broos, as you might know, is a coach who won Afcon in 2017 in Cameroon where he started building a new team and a young team,” Jordaan said.

SAFA announced the Belgian as their new coach hours after he looked set to take up a similar job with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Some media outlets in Congo, including influential Footrdc, reported that he was set to be unveiled as the replacement for Christian N’sengi.

Broos, who  won domestic league titles in Belgium with Club Brugge twice and once with Anderlecht, has replaced Ntseki Molefi who got the bullet after failing to steer South Africa to the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations finals.

The Belgian has been tasked with taking South Africa to the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

To achieve that, South Africa must navigate their way past Ghana, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe in Group D of the qualifying race for Africa.

Bafana Bafana kick off their World Cup campaign with an away match against Zimbabwe in the first week of June 2021.