Mamelodi Sundowns and Bidvest Wits both missed the chance of closing the game on Kaizer Chiefs on top of the Absa Premiership table after they played to a 1-1 draw at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Wednesday night. Wits coach Gavin Hunt was disappointed by their display.

It was for the first time that Mbule won the player of the month award. He scored two goals and had an assist in the five games played during that period.

Middendorp also reserved some praise for the November player of the month Sipho Mbule of Supersport United who beat the likes of Knox Mutizwa, Williams Twala and Dumisani Zuma to this award.

By winning the Absa Premiership coach of the month award for the record third time, Kaizer Chiefs head coach Ernst Middendorp has revealed that now his main priority is to go all out for the league title.

South Africa’s world junior chess sensation Minentle Miya is gearing up for her 2019 African Youth Chess Championship (AYCC) in Namibia later today.

Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp and SuperSport United midfielder Sipho Mbule have won the Absa Premiership monthly awards for the month of November.

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane says his players deserve all the credit for the stellar job they are doing amidst the tough scheduling they face. The Brazilians will play their fourth game in 10 days tonight (Tuesday, 17 December 2019) when they tackle Bidvest Wits in an Absa Premiership encounter at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium, the same venue that was the scene of them winning the Telkom Knockout title on the weekend.

Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper Denis Onyango believes winning the Telkom Knockout crown over the weekend will release pressure on the Brazilians in the months ahead. The Tshwane giants ended a near three-and-a-half year domestic cup drought by claiming the title in Durban when they edged Maritzburg United 2-1 at the Moses Mabhida Stadium. Onyango feels they can now go into their busy Christmas schedule more at ease.

A sold out crowd at Boland Park in Paarl cheered on as the Paarl Rocks were crowned as the 2019 Mzansi Super League champions. The Rocks comfortably beat the Tshwane Spartans by 8 wickets in Monday evening’s final, needing just 14.2 overs to reach the target of 148.The Spartans misread the nature of the pitch and went for pace where the Rocks slowed things done. Spartans Captain Heinrich Klaassen says it had not been an easy run in the pool stages, but once they qualified for the knockout stages they really wanted this final.

Henry Davids maybe close to the end of his glittering domestic career but showed age is nothing but a number when he powered the Paarl Rocks to their first Mzansi Super League title in Paarl. The 39-year-old from Stellenbosch made the Tshwane Spartans’ 147/6 look like a cakewalk as the hosts cantered home by eight wickets with more than five overs to spare. Man of the match Davids says he felt great after his match-winning innings.