A week after the FIFA World cup final had been decided and Spain announced as Champions. We hosted our very own Mpilonhle Football Predictions Awards. This was a brain child by Musa Khumalo who came up with a concept also assisted by Jonathan van Niekerk. We had 2 World cup predictions … [Read more...]

Learners have attended some of the games during the World cup. We got some tickets from Sony, which is one of the sponsors. Schools from Umkhanyakude District then selected learners that can attend matches. We also got Mtuba Soccer academy learners attending matches. … [Read more...]

A dream has come true for me this past week. I have attended a  FIFA World Cup match for the first time in my life. I watched my first World cup game back in 1994. It was held in USA, then France 98', Korea 2002 and Germany 2006. All these I watched on tv with my father. Sadly he passed away … [Read more...]

Last week Tuesday we played a match against Slethukukhanya High School educators. The great thing about this match is that we played at night at the Floodlighted ground. This is the first time we played a match at night. The other great thing about this is Mpilonhle helped in building this ground. … [Read more...]

The people of Esikhawini/ Empangeni/ Richards Bay got a once in a lifetime opportunity when they came face to face with the iconic Fifa World Cup trophy on Monday. Courtesy of Coca Cola, the solid gold trophy will landed in Richards Bay on the final leg of its global tour and went on display at the … [Read more...]

We have ended the year 2009 with a blast here at Mpilonhle. Our end of year function was held at Cape Vidal. After a year of hard work  this is the best way to end it. We started the day by having a run at the beach this was followed by opening and welcoming by our Director Mike Bennish. The braai … [Read more...]

As you all might have heard of our recent feature with Silethukukhanya HIgh School was of huge disappointment , I felt so angry with the match referee who couldn't give us a well deserved penalty ,however I wouldn't complain more as we had couple of chances that we failed to convert infront of goals … [Read more...]

On Friday the Mpilonhle FC played its first official match. It was a very difficult away game. The good thing was that our host were very welcoming. Slethukukhanya is such a well run school its amazing. Our Mayor Mthombeni helped in getting rid of all the pre-match nerves by telling jokes earlier in … [Read more...]

We have been very busy this past week. The guys here at work have started a football club. We have already had 2 practise sessions. This is what we have all been waiting for. We needed the exercises as most of us have been gaining weight alarmingly. Most of the guys are very excited about this as … [Read more...]