As from last weekend we are hosting a winter tourney for the under 15s and under 17s, it began on weekend, and it will go on until the 4th of August when we play the finals for both divisions. For the coming two weekends we will be hosting the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals respectively. The support from the community has been great and we are expecting more of them from next as the word has spread all around kasi about the tournament.

I manage to gather all 16 teams for both…

Intabazwe Young Stars FC has appointed me as their Administrator for the upcoming season as they will be campaigning in the SAB League (Eastern Free State). On the weekend we were playing a tournament at Tshiame and we came out victorious......... The season will be starting on the 1st of October 2022. Hope that it will be a very successful year for our football at Intabazwe as we will be having 3 teams (Intabazwe Young Stars FC, Harrismith Santos FC and Philane United FC) participating in…

Last year during this time of the or maybe earlier as we were heading to winter, we wrote letters to different companies asking them to help us with uniforms and casual clothing for needy children in our location. Our focus was on primary schools especially those that have children from poor families, we made a research from four primaries that we have and going around the location verifying the information that we are having that is correct or not.

After the research we sent…

We had a mini-tourney during school holidays to keep the youth busy, the code we had were netball, basketball and five-aside football. We categorized the teams according to sections we had in our location - 8 sections. Even though it did not start in a way that we were expecting but it was a success, we were denied entry at the sports complex because we are not members of the political party that runs the municipality even though we had a letter from the municipality to use the facilities.…

I live in the area where when we were growing up, the elders will be telling you that is the peaceful place of them all. The name of the place was called Phomolong at first then the name was changed to Intabazwe on the late nineties. And the reason was that as we live at top of 42nd hill there has to be a Zulu o Sotho name that will compliment 42nd hill and the name was…

I had a privilege of being visited by a former Bloemfontein Celtic and Santos player Sipho Molefe, now he is a new chairperson of Maluti a Phofung municipality. I grew up watching him playing football in our dusty streets of Intabazwe for a team that was named Wits - a prolific striker in his time.

I never knew that in whatever we do there are people who are…

I would like thank the Youthzones family for the camp we had in KZN, it was very nice camp, we got motivated, we faced activities that I never thought I will be doing in my life or anytime soon. As we are the leaders in our communities we were even showed that we could do everything, no matter the obstacles but we can succeed. So as from now on I hope that we would do all our…

We are proudly to announce that the boy has been selected to attend provincial trials of Bolton Wanderes FC on last week Saturday last week. He was one of our shining stars in our team Spartans United that was participating at the municipal league and he was also elected by Free State Stars during our participation but due to the team not participating anymore in the league he was not…

Former teammates, current ones and the community of Intabazwe came with the initiative of making breakfast for needy learners in all primary schools in our location. Out of 4 primary schools in our locations only 2 schools allowed us to make breakfast for their learners. As for the other two they stated that they already have a project that is making the same thing we are about to do. We would like to thank the brothers whom i used to play with for their time that they are willing to spend…

We would like to thank the good samaritians who made it possible for us to donate reading book to our juniors in different primary school around Intabazwe. Speacial thank you to Mr. Dube (Spartans United Coach), Mr. Tshabalala Themba (Player/Coach of Spartans United) and Mr.…

We went to help educators at Qhubeka Primary School with some lessons and we found that most of the learners of the school are from disadvanted families in Intabazwe, and most of them are living in shacks. But what made happy the most is that they love their education…

We as Spartans United FC, a team that participate in SAFA-LFA Super League would like to thank Youthzones for giving us a kit and soccer boots. We would to thank Mr. Mabila, Temarai and all the people involve with Youthzones. We would like to say AWOOOOOO!!!!!…

The league standing below is the league where 3 teams (in bold) are representing Harrismith; Mantja-a-itetseng is from Tshiame, Spartans United and Real Movers are from Intabazwe respectively. There is 1 team from Kestell and the rest of the teams are from Qwa Qwa......this is one of the toughest league i ever experienced in the ametuer side. Champions of the league will get an automatic promotion to the Castle league then the runner-ups will participate in the play-offs for the Castle…

There is a Sotho saying - Ntja pedi hae hlolwe ke sebata.....and really it became reality since i worked with my fellow brothers since late 2011 when i was introduced to youthzones. Ever since we as the coaches of various teams we were having a dream of making a…

The coaches took time to combine the younger brothers from different primary schools in our location as a plan of encouraging them to study and be active in sports as well,…

Spartans United FC took the initative to help learners of variuos primary schools with their homeworks after school hours, the coaches talked to the principals of the primaries for the permission to help the learners with their homeworks. Our location has 4 primary…

These young brothers are participating in the municipal tournament or Maluti-A-Phofung, they had won the local rounds during the week and now they are heading to the regional rounds this weekend where they will be participating with other kids from Bethlehem, Qwa Qwa, Kestell, Warden and Memel.

I wish them all the best as they will be representing Intabazwe,…

These are some of the pics of Spartans United players cleaning the toilets of Intermediate School, the team had fewer resources like brushes,…

He is one of the talented player at Spartans United Football Club that is participating in the SAFA-LFA league, he was spotted while we were playing at Qwa Qwa last weekend. Even though we lost the match; he played his heart out for the team. At the end of the game 2 guys approached us and asked about him and we exchanged numbers. The guys told us that they are scouts from…