South Africans celebrate in the streets after World Cup advance

South African football fans took to the streets in the early hours of Thursday, honking vuvuzelas and singing in celebration at Bafana Bafana’s first-ever qualification for the World Cup knockout rounds.
Playing in a World Cup for the first time since they hosted it in 2010, the team shocked South Korea 1-0 on Wednesday to secure progression, which had seemed unlikely after they lost their opening group stage match 2-0 to co-hosts Mexico.
As the match ended at around 5:00 am local time, scores of people headed out into the streets — many in their pyjamas — to chant, dance and blow long plastic vuvuzela horns.
Soweto resident Nandi Ntini told AFP that she was woken up by vuvuzelas an...