Lungile Madywabe
latest news & developmentsSoccer’s lasting legacy from 2010
The multibillion-rand 2010 World Cup stadium construction project, with its time frame of 18 to 34 months, was always going to cause disagreement in the very fragile relationship…
Parreira vs the PSL
The South African Football Association has included no measurable performance assessment plan in the lucrative four-year contract signed by Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto…
2010 here we come
It was inevitable. Long before the 2006 World Cup final, the Afro-pessimist brigade was already muttering dark warnings about 2010. Now comes the crescendo. We can almost feel…
Notes on soccer, dreams and development
It is the Cup of Dreams — and the Cup of Paradox. As hundreds of millions of people tune in for Friday’s opening of the football World Cup on the immaculate fields of Germany,…
New balls for an old game
When Tokyo Sexwale sits down in the foyer of the Sandton Crowne Plaza hotel in Johannesburg to talk football, he lifts his right foot towards his chest and gesticulates while…
Employers’ promises of a better life end in exploitation
At the other end of the spectrum, some African families living in Johannesburg are luring unskilled young black women to work for them, at salaries way below the legal minimum…
Secret soccer report exposed
A referee fingered by the 1998 Motimele commission of inquiry into allegations of bribery, corruption and match-fixing in soccer continued to officiate for another six years…
Whistlemen turn whistle-blowers
Referees implicated in soccer’s match-fixing scandal are trying to turn state witness to escape prosecution. And new evidence suggests that the South African Football Association…