Following the viral clip's resurgence on social media, we take a trip down memory lane to revisit Phakamani Mahlambi's TV blunder on Robert Marawa's show in 2018.
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Like many talented South African footballers who were blinded by the off-pitch limelight, Phakamani Mahlambi's promising career came to an abrupt halt due to disciplinary issues that plagued his professional career from start to finish.
The former Bafana Bafana player has been without a club since leaving Chippa United at the end of the 2021/22 DStv Premiership season.
Mahlambi, once a rising talent tipped for greatness, first made a mark with the now defunct Bidvest Wits in 2016 after being promoted from their DStv Diski Challenge.
He spent two seasons with Wits before making a historic move to Egyptian giants Al Ahly in September 2017, becoming the first South African to play in Egypt's top flight.
However, his time at Al Ahly was frustrating, and after just one season, he returned to South Africa and joined champions Mamelodi Sundowns in 2018.
Mahlambi lasted two seasons with Masandawana before moving to AmaZulu, where he managed only three appearances at the Durban-based outfit under the tutelage of Benni McCarthy.
After endured an unsuccessful stint with the Chilli Boys before becoming unattached in July 2022. Back in 2018, when his future looked promising, Mahlambi made headlines for a blunder during an interview with Robert Marawa on the now-cancelled "Thursday Night Live" show on SuperSport.
Asked about his time in Egypt, Mahlambi misunderstood a question about the country's tourist attractions, specifically the mummies.
When Marawa mentioned the mummies, Mahlambi responded with, "You can't see the mummies because most of them are married at a young age."
This response confused the people on the show as Marawa was referring to mummies, preserved corpses, a practice that's heavily associated with ancient Egypt, According to the American Museum of Natural History, Mummification was practiced for thousands of years in the North African nation and was long considered a key step in a person's journey to the afterlife.
However, Mahlambi had mistakenly confused the term "mummies" with "mammies," a colloquial term sometimes used to refer to young women.
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