He follows some of the country’s greatest footballers in wearing the number made famous by Pelé, Diego Maradona, Zinedine Zidane and Lionel Messi.
Mofokeng is a cool customer and will likely feel no added pressure, but there is no doubt that wearing the number brings with it extra responsibility.
Here are some of the notable players to have worn it for Bafana Bafana over the years.
For many, the greatest player to wear the national team jersey, or certainly the best midfielder, Moshoeu was a generational talent who, on his day, could pick apart opponents almost at will.
He spent 11 years in the national team following his debut against Botswana in 1993 and was part of the side that won the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations and qualified for two World Cups.
He did not go to the second of those global finals, but finished his international career in 2004 as the oldest player ever to represent South Africa at the age of 38. He earned 73 caps and scored eight goals.
Moshoeu sadly passed away in 2015 at the age of 49.
Mnguni makes this list more as an oddity than anything else, having been handed the number 10 jersey at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, making him a most unlikely recipient.
For a start, he did not play a single minute of Bafana’s matches at the tournament and, in a national team career that ran from 2001 to 2004, made just 13 appearances without scoring a goal.
He was a star for Mamelodi Sundowns and later moved to Russia to play for Lokomotiv Moscow and FC Rostov.
All in all, he remains one of the most unusual recipients of the number 10 shirt.
On pure skill alone, Pienaar was probably the most gifted player to wear a Bafana shirt, but his problem was that many of his teammates were not always on the same wavelength, meaning his vision and football intelligence were often underappreciated.
He needed players of similar quality around him to truly shine, but that was not always the case with Bafana and he frequently cut a frustrated figure.
Pienaar made his debut against Madagascar in 2002 and won his last cap nine years later in 2011, playing 62 times for his country and scoring three goals.
He is currently a youth coach at Ajax Amsterdam.
Serero should probably have won at least double his 42 international caps and certainly scored more than two goals, but at times gave the impression of someone who was not entirely committed to the national team cause.
He came through the ranks at Ajax Cape Town before moving to the Mother Club in Amsterdam in 2011, where he was a success, albeit in a more withdrawn midfield role.
He played further forward for Bafana Bafana. Serero made his debut in 2011 and earned his final cap in 2019.
The most recent long-term holder of the number 10 shirt in the national team, whenever he was part of the squad, Tau did not fully live up to the classic playmaker role at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire, but he was a loyal and valued servant to Bafana Bafana for a decade following his debut in 2015.
On his day, he was both a superb creator and a clinical finisher.
He recently left Vietnamese side Thep Xanh Nam Dinh, while his international career appears to be on hold for now.