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The South African football league is one of the biggest in Africa, without any doubt. Not only is it broadcast live on the DSTV sports channel, but it is also actively followed by many across the continent. Just as the league has continued to gain attention, the players are now the most paid in Africa, only after Egypt. The country's league is ahead of others like  Tunisia, Angola, DR...

Orlando Pirates FC is a South African professional football club based in Houghton, Johannesburg. This club plays in the South African first division - the Premier Soccer League (PSL) - with a team made up of some of the finest footballers in South African football. Their team squad includes Thembinkosi Lorch and Siphesihle Ndlovu. The Buccaneers, as they are fondly called by their fans, also have a well-decorated trophy...

The 2020/2021 football season in the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL) was a fierce football battle between the PSL clubs. However, Mamelodi Sundowns proved to be the giant of football in the country by winning the league and being the first team to win the PSL title in four consecutive seasons. That season is over, and sixteen clubs, including the defending champions, are already slugging it out in...

Since playing their first match in 1906, the South Africa national soccer team, better known by the moniker Bafana Bafana, has come a long way, experienced many changes, and distinguished itself in many ways. The team successfully got diversified at the end of the paralytic system of apartheid that had the football world shun them and has made huge leaps since then. Their most significant feat yet happened at...

Founded in 1970, Mamelodi Sundowns is one of the biggest professional football clubs in South Africa. They compete in the first tier of the South African league system (the Premier League Soccer) and have won many national titles and cup competitions. Mamelodi Sundowns new signings for the 2021/2022 season have been a topic of interest in the sports world and among football critics. Mamelodi as a team has thousands of...

One of the oldest clubs in the Premier Soccer League, Orlando Pirates, has boosted its team during the recently ended transfer window by signing new players. The club, founded in 1937, has been playing beautiful football over the years. Nevertheless, they have been struggling to clinch the PSL title since 2012. As a result, Orlando Pirates have strengthened the squad with new signings, hoping to challenge Mamelodi Sundowns for...

Kaizer Chiefs have been making impressive waves in the Premier Soccer League since its establishment on January 7th, 1970. The club calls FNB Stadium home and has clinched more than 50 club trophies, including 13 league titles. However, since 2015, the team has been on a PSL title drought. Thus, Kaizer Chiefs have been making efforts to revamp the team by landing new signings. Following the franchise's illegal signing...

Motjeka Madisha was a South African footballer whose life was cut short in a car accident. His death was so heartbreaking because he was such a great young man with great potentials. Again, he was at the peak of his career and a talent loved by many. The footballer's family is yet to come to terms with his untimely death. Losing the young man at such a young age is...

Cheslin Kolbe is a -year-old rugby player from South Africa. He is 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 80kg. Cheslin is a big name in the world of Rugby and arguably one of the world's best rugby players. He's very passionate about the sport and earned every accolade coming his way from the game. Think about the Kobe Bryants and Lionel Messi of sports; Chelsin Kolbe can make a...

In less than a decade after starting his professional football career, Gabadinho Mhango, whose full name is Hellings Frank "Gabadinho" Mhango, has been able to amass a net worth estimated between $500,000 and $800,000. The star player currently earns about R150,000 per month at his present club, the Orlando Pirates. The Malawian international football player, who is currently plying his trade in the South African Premier League with Orlando Pirates,...

Tying the knot more than once is part of life for celebrities. What matters for most of them is finding the right person to spend the rest of their lives with, no matter how long it takes. This is the story of Teko Modise, South Africa's beloved retired professional footballer. The young man got married for the first time before the age of 30, but unfortunately, things didn't work out...

Orlando Pirates is one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in South Africa. The team was founded in 1973, and it has since then won many national and international competitions. While in recent time it has found itself struggling with other clubs, including Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs F.C., Pirates has set many records and legacies. They have won more than 40 trophies, including Cup competitions considered...

Hlompho Kekana is a South African football player who currently plays for Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League (PSL). He has a net worth valued at R5.9 million. Kekana started his journey to the limelight in football as far back as 2002 while he was in high school. His football career has been active from 2002 to date. Over the course of his football career,...

Football management has evolved today, and club administrators, especially elite clubs, are under more pressure to deliver on their promise now more than ever. This gives rise to a situation where astute tacticians are in hot demand. Asking clubs price them away from their current job by offering a higher pay packet and better working conditions. This situation has led to some coaches earning more and becoming the highest-paid...

Football all over the world is known as a money-spinning machine. Every year, the goal of the richest football teams in Europe, such as Real Madrid, Manchester United, FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and the likes, remain the same: To be successful both on and off the pitch by playing great football, attracting more fans, winning trophies, attracting the best players and brands to do business with the club, which...

When news first broke that former Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates star and captain Jimmy Tau was in a relationship with Tsholofelo Mhlongo, it marked the start of a serious drama as the former football star was a friend to Tsholofelo's father. Although there were some oppositions at first, the couple held their grounds, and before the dust could finally settle, they had a daughter together. Only a few years...

You do not need to be an ardent follower of sports in South Africa before you will get to know Thembinkosi Lorch. A football star who plays as a forward for the Bafana Bafana as well as for the Orlando Pirates, he has been in the news for his great skills, and most recently, for getting in trouble with the law after an assault on his girlfriend. The Orlando Pirates...

Footballers in most parts of the world enjoy a life of luxury, and this is no different for the Zimbabwean professional football star, Khama Billiat. Born on August 19, 1992, in Harare, Zimbabwe, Khama grew up in a sports-loving family. His father, Mustafo Billiat, and uncle Cheche Billiat played for the Harare, Zimbabwean-based football club, CAPS United. Interestingly, Khama also spent his amateur days in the same club, idolizing his...

South Africa is a nation of sports-loving people especially with soccer which is one of the most popular of all sports. The sport has found a place in the hearts of citizens -  even with its rocky start of segregation in the apartheid regime, it became one of the first sports that unified the nation in 1991. The national team, Bafana Bafana, has scores of followers and has qualified for...

The South African national football team is undoubtedly made up of professionals who possess unique skills and talents but as the hope of the nation hangs on these talents, what chances do they have of winning the Nations' Cup? It is worth remembering that it is the efforts of these footballers that has seen the nation qualify for the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2015 tournament when other respected countries including Nigeria failed...