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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 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...