Many will not be surprised by the news that Banyana Banyana have not been paid - again. After qualifying for the Women’s Afcon in Ghana, Banyana were not paid by Safa forcing them to take matters in their own hands. Banyana decided to hold their Nike kit ransom, refusing to return it to Safa until they were paid what was due to them. Banyana then went a step further and […]
By Busisiwe Mokwena It was back in 2001 that then Safa President Molefi Oliphant announced that South Africa would have a professional women’s football league by 2003. It’s 2018 and we are still waiting. Seventeen years later these promises continue, the latest coming from newly reelected Safa President Danny Jordaan who announced upon his re-election two weeks ago that his next five year term in charge would see a shift […]
When the South African football Association sent a statement last week that Xolile Nkompela had been appointed acting president, I thought that finally sanity had prevailed at the SAFA House. To my disappointment, I realised that Nkompela’s appointment is only because president Danny Jordaan is out of the country on CAF and FIFA Business. But maybe my biggest disappointment was the press conference that the association called last week. Former […]
The recent two day CAF Women’s Symposium held in Morocco may have brought a lot of promise to the growth of women’s football on the continent, however with the recommendations yet to be adopted, it remains to be seen if the event was successful. The event, held under the theme: Raising Our Game, was aimed at bringing forth suggestions on how to increase female participation in the sport which will […]