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Doin’ it for themselves: Five years ago the Jamaican women’s team was nonexistent but it has since come back to life and is competing once again. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images/AFP)
AWCON

Get up, stand up: Jamaica rises

Banyana’s face-off against the Reggae Girlz is an opportunity to leave the Cyprus Cup in the past

  • Luke Feltham
5 min read
South Africa’s national women’s football team is doing well, despite precious little institutional support. But they do want to be paid what they were promised for achieving second place in the Awcon tournament. (Richard Huggard/Gallo Images)
AFRICA WOMEN CUP OF NATIONS

Banyana yet to be paid Safa monies

Some players are owed about R75 000 and repeated promises to start a women’s football league are yet to be fulfilled

  • Luke Feltham
  • Busisiwe Mokwena
7 min read
Heroes: Banyana Banyana celebrate during the African Cup of Nations semifinal against Mali in November. The team raised sporting South Africa’s pride and hopes. (Sydney Mahlangu/BackpagePix)
AFRICA WOMEN CUP OF NATIONS

Sport audit 2018: How SA’s national football teams performed

If our national teams are adverts of who we are then it’s little wonder we are so quick to hold them to account. So let’s do just that.

  • Luke Feltham
6 min read
Janine van Wyk, Desiree Ellis and Emma Hendricks during the Banyana Banyana Arrival Press Conference at OR Tambo International Airport on December 02 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Lee Warren/Gallo Images)
AFRICA WOMEN CUP OF NATIONS

Chilcot report: Tony Blair’s government accused of using bogus evidence to launch 2003 Iraq invasion

Tony Blair remained in power until his resignation in 2007

  • Agency
1 min read
Percy Tau of South Africa and Sand Masaud MMasaud of Libya race for the ball ina2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match.Coach Stuart Baxter is relying on the on-form Tau and Dino Ndlovu to score for South Africa. (Anesh Debiky/Gallo Images)
AFRICA WOMEN CUP OF NATIONS

SA takes on the best – twice

Both our national men’s and women’s football teams take on the footballing powerhouse Nigeria this weekend and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

  • Luke Feltham
5 min read