As part of their preparations for a new life in the GladAfrica Championship Division next season, Polokwane City FC decided against keeping four of their experienced key players. This after Rise and Shine, as they are affectionately called, were relegated to the lower division after completing their league programme at the bottom of the log.

One of the teams that will be campaigning in the Premiership Division next season is likely to be known at the end of the relegation/promotion game between Black Leopards and Ajax Cape at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg this afternoon (Friday).

Following their 1-5 defeat at the hands of Ajax Cape Town in their promotion/relegation match at the Stuur Park Stadium on Tuesday afternoon, Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) are now out of the race for promotion to the Absa Premiership Division.

Contrary to the ongoing speculation, the Premier Soccer League (PSL) teams will not play their 2020/21 league matches in a bio-bubble when the activities for the new season start next month.

The annual IsAbility golf day was decided at the Soutpansberg Golf Club on Saturday, 12 September, and despite the Covid-19 restrictions, was once again a great success.

Black Leopards might have failed to avoid taking part in the promotional/relegation playoffs, but the team’s caretaker coaches, Messrs Morgan Shivambu and Mongezi Bobe, deserve a pat on the shoulder. Shivambu and Bobe took over as caretaker coaches from Mr Allan Clark, who resigned from the team’s head coaching position two weeks before the resumption of the league programme.

The president of Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila FC (TTM), Mr Masala Mulaudzi, might have sold the club’s GladAfrica Championship franchise to the owner of African All Stars FC, Mr Simon Malatjie, for R10 million, but chances are that the original selling price could increase dramatically should the club make the grade in the promotional playoffs and gain promotion to the Premiership division.

Black Leopards will be without three key players in their relegation/promotion playoff campaign. According to the club’s brand manager, Mr Tshifhiwa Thidiela, the three players, Mogakolodi Ngele, Tswarelo Bereng, and Thobang Mncwango, were let go on Monday morning.

After losing their opening promotion/relegation playoff match against Ajax Cape Town at the Orlando Stadium last Sunday, Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) have a mountain to climb. They will entertain Black Leopards in their second fixture at the Stuur Park Stadium tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.

Residents are invited to take on a series of bike and running challenges over the next three months as a fundraiser for the SPCA Louis Trichardt.

The annual Mabena Soccer Challenge is likely not to be staged this year as a result of the national lockdown.

The ABC Motsepe League programme is not likely to resume on 1 October as anticipated. This follows a communique that the South African Football Association (SAFA) had received from the government this week.

Duiweboere van die Hangklip (Hpk) en Soutpansberg (Spb) Posduifklubs het die afgelope naweek weer gewedywer, dié keer in twee opewedvlugte vanaf Warrenton.

Albert “Bwala” Mushadu was a workaholic and a speedy striker who gave his opponents sleepless nights, but he was also one of the most dedicated soccer players of the era in which he played.

With only one match remaining before the current league programme for the Premier Soccer League season comes to an end, one of the players for Black Leopards, Mogakolodi Ngele, is still not certain about his future. The player’s agent, Mr Basia Michaels of QT Sports, revealed this during an interview with the Limpopo Mirror.