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By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies goalkeeper, Andile Dlamini, takes ShakingInk into the Chloorkop based outfit camp. Banyana Ba Style are sitting at the summit of the Hollywoodbets Super League log standings and have their eyes glued to the ultimate price- the domestic league title. Their fourth league title on the spin remains possible, but not without a challenge. With the University of the Western Cape and University of Johannesburg mounting the pressure on Sundowns, Dlamini insists that, Sundowns knows the stage and have danced to this beat before. The CAF championship winning side has been included in the Women's Cup where they'll test their fabric against those of best teams in the world. The multi-award winning goalkeeper says, Sundowns, has what it takes to compete at the highest level of the game. The Brazilians have to negotiate their way to the podium with one of the league's powerhouses, in University of Western Cape. Sundowns will host a stubbo...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Bongiwe Thusi in her debut match for JVW (Cred: Twitter @BongiweThusi6) Coming into the final six months of your contract is the most frustrating phase of any professional footballer. It is an old tale, one that is full of peril. Athletes are never at ease as worries threaten to come crowding in. The pressure seems to be escalating to explosions. Like any other footballer, Bongiwe Thusi, found herself in a similar situation when her contract with Mamelodi Sundowns was coming to an end. Little did she know Equatorial Guinea giants, Malabo Kings, were keeping tabs on her situation at Chloorkop and were keen on bringing her on board. Slender Clutched her bags and waved goodbye to her teammates.  That brought down an iron curtain. Joining Kings was a royal beginning. As every word tunnels into the pages of ShakingInk, Slender, speaks of her stay at Sundowns and why joining Malabo Kings was a sort of task she wanted to sink her teeth into. With her c...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Banyana Banyana celebrates Africa Women's Cup Of Nations victory after beating Morocco 2-1 in the final. Photo cred: Backpagepix Milpark Stadium remains a sacred space for South African women in football. Like an angel offering redemption to a sinner, in 1992, FIFA readmitted South Africa back into the international football fold. A year later Banyana Banyana was born. The real world finally intruded into South African women's football in the winter of 1993. A new era was opening. Banyana took on neighbours eSwatini, the then Swaziland. The main architects of South African women's football history. Former Banyana Banyana star midfielder, Anna Monate, took ShakingInk down memory lane as she reminisces on the historic day when she took to the field donning national team colours. Though, the stakes were real, and high. Playing football was an art they were learning to master. Monate laid bare the incidents of the 30th of May 1993. “For my...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Sundowns Ladies FC mentor, Jerry Tshabalala, chats to Newzroom Afrika Sports Anchor Tumi Kgaswe at the Hyundai-Sundowns Lounge. ShakingInk got hold of Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies mentor, Jerry Tshabalala and the 2021 campaign 'Treble' winning coach reveals the story behind Sundowns success, the club’s philosophy and how they manage to marry collective discipline with individual creativity. Something they see as the ladder to all high designs. He also equates club chairman, Thlopie Motsepe, to the CAF President as a visionary of note. The principal catalyst of the new mood, Agnes Nkosi, led the team from the dugouts during the Cosafa region CAF qualifiers round and more of a carbon copy 'Mbiba' has come in full circle to win the inaugural Total Energies CAF Women’s Champions League as a solo rider. Nkosi gets a deserved pat on the shoulder from the head coach. In the wake of new prosperity, a Cultural Revolution is coming to the boil at...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Hollywoodbets Super League has set up a theatre for women's football in South Africa. An action galore series, more of a horror film than a comedy flick. Though, football is less fictional than most of Hollywood films, but it offers the same dramatic content if not more. Heroes and villains, the building blocks of classic tales. Directing a television production bears some similarities to football management. Trying to coax the best out of role players. Coaches are more concerned with numbers on the log standings, so are directors' obsession with viewership.  A one team dominated league is often referred to as a farmer's league. The dominance of Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies in the Hollywoodbets Super League puts the women's league in category one of farmers' leagues. Royal AM Ladies mentor, Thato Haraba, argues the notion that Hollywoodbets Super League is a farmers league and is of a view that assumptions lack as much in t...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola  Nompumelelo Nyandeni of Janine Van Wyk Football Club For Girls yelling instructions to her teammates during a Hollywoodbets Super League match. Photo Cred: Thami Soccer. Nature has a tendency to panel beat and sips away strength and pace, but Nompumelelo Nyandeni, of Janine Van Wyk Football Club for Girls has defied science as she gathers strength and becoming quicker as she ages.  Nyandeni finished the 2021/22 Hollywoodbets Super League season a joined top goalscorer, tying up with Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies star Andisiwe Mqcoyi, after the duo rattled the net a massive twenty-seven times. The veteran midfielder-cum-striker shows no signs of slowing down, as she is leading the pack this season with fifteen goals in fourteen games under her belt. “Last season we had joint top goalscorers with both me and Andisiwe Mqcoyi, that shows the level of healthy competition in the women’s soccer league. I have to say that also plays a role in motivating ...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola South African U/17 Mentor, Simphiwe Dludlu-Sibiya during a training session. (Photo Cred: SAFA) ShakingInk caught up with South African Under 17 women's mentor, SABC Sports football pundit and former Banyana Banyana skipper, Simphiwe Dludlu-Sibiya to get her brains on the success of the holy grail of South African football, bonuses tabled by SAFA and her take on the raging debate over who is the best footballer between the veteran Nigerian attacker, Asisat Oshoala and the speedy South African goal poacher, Thembi Kgatlana.  Years crept past with South African Football Association (SAFA) facing the cardinal sin of operating on a shoestring budget. A budget tighter than a python wrapped up its prey. SAFA has attained her omega point. A national masterpiece, sculpted by SAFA to perfection. When SAFA president, Dr Danny Jordaan, announced that the Association has put aside a whooping R9.2 million to pay Banyana stars' for their progre...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola   South African women’s football success is making the leap from the swampy backwater into the world's well established professional leagues. Banyana Banyana skipper, Janine Van Wyk, took her rare and precious commodity- time- to chat to ShakingInk. Though, patience and football don't sit well together, Van Wyk calls for patience and allow the right cornflakes to rise to the top of the packet. She says South Africa has what it takes to rise to the very pinnacle of this arena. The heroic figure worshipped by so many aspiring footballers warns against comparing Hollywoodbets Super League to leagues that have stood the test of time. Van Wyk insists that instant success is built on sand and ebbs away just as quickly. The football loving public wants a quick fix, but the veteran Banyana defender says, that's unsustainable. In Van Wyk's world, improvement is still innovation "We shouldn't compare any league in the world to what we c...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola The fact remains that the truth is less romantic. Over the ages, women athletes suffered the kind of injury you can't see through the naked eye. Though, the scars of history are still clear as crystal, but the only way to define women's football is growth and glory. Indeed, the only way to forge a better future is through collective struggle and collective ends. That does not only prove equality, but also shows it is possible to escape from the burden of history. In an exclusive interview with ShakingInk , First Touch Academy star attacker, Priscilla Pesa, lauded boys from her community for their support towards women in sports. Pesa says her male counterparts played a huge role in her growth in football. Boys in Polokwane have put aside all fallacious beliefs that were used as a measuring stick to put women far from sport fields and civilized as they were, they allowed their opposite sex to play football with them. Pesa insists that, because of her ...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies side celebrates CAF Women's Champions League qualifiers victory. 📸 ( @Sundownsladies) Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies side technical staff went into the COSAFA region Caf Women’s Champions League (CWCL) qualifiers with a huge goalkeeping crisis. Banyana Banyana international, Andile Dlamini and Botswana goalie Sedilame Boseja, were out due to injuries. With the former having been out for some time owing to an injury and the latter went under the knife before the tournament commences. The two experienced campaigners' absence left coaches with only Asa Rabalao as the only option to put on the gloves and put strikers at bay. Read: Rejected for being black Rabalao had to step up and not only fill in the big shoes of the duo but tie her laces too tight. The lanky shot-stopper says going into a tournament of this magnitude without a back-up goalkeeper on the bench was a bit of a setback to the team. “At some point it was a bit dif...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Identifying your true calling is a key to happiness and chasing after it with all the courage turns down handles to the other side of the world. Zanele Nhlapo is not only chasing after her true calling but she chases the ball for a living. That ninety minutes on a football pitch grants Nhlapo an undiluted happiness and peace. The Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies star defender has mastered the art of chasing the ball and found her true calling in the process. Nhlapo is so good that her prowess can't be ignored.  The opening game of the SAFA National Women's League (SNWL) with Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies was adequate for Nhlapo to secure a move to Albania. "My move abroad happened as quickly as possible. Just after one game of the new SAFA National Women's League (SNWL) with Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies I scored myself a move to Albanian Women's side KF Apolonia. My manager, Lebo Mashishi, is the one who facilitated the deal." Said Nhlapo ...

By Malose Wa Ga Lamola Banyana Banyana goalkeeper, Kaylin Swart, in action. Photo Cred: Backpagepix   The end to everything can be sudden and brutal, where pity isn't a word and mercy isn't known. Death has a tendency of sneaking in and strike when least expected, knows no stature and identity, it hits in the same devastating manner. South African football fraternity learnt about the sudden passing of Banyana Banyana kit manager Alleta 'Skhokho' Ngidi. JVW Girls Football Club and Banyana Banyana goalkeeper, Kaylin Swart, says the larger than life Ngidi will certainly be missed in Banyana camps and 1her absence will be felt. “Death is never something we can plan for, and the passing of Aletta , really hit us hard. She was a big part of our team and forever will be. Her spirit will live in all of us as we try and move on from this tragic passing. Every day in camp from now on out will be tough but her energy and love she had for us will live on and we can only remembe...