Former ANC Youth League leader in soccer tournament payment row
A group of soccer players has accused former ANC Youth League leader Magasela Mzobe of not playing fair, after he failed to pay them R250 000 for winning his soccer tournament and allegedly only paid a second-place team from his hometown.
The event was attended by KwaZulu-Natal media personalities including Ngizwe Mchunu; Linda Sibiya, who was the MC; and provincial Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs MEC Siboniso Duma, who announced that the department was sponsoring the soccer tournament.Team captain Sphamandla Mvelase told City Press that his team-mates had incurred debts in order to put together training gear, make travel arrangements to and from the tournament, and pay the R5 000 affiliation fee.
The soccer player said they had been informed by members of Young Chiefs, a club from Mzobe’s hometown Newcastle, that they had been paid their R100 000 cash prize. Mvelase said the team needed more money than the organisers because they were young people who put together money to make it to the tournament.
Mzobe, who hails from Newcastle and was once the national coordinator of the ANC Youth League task team that ran the league’s affairs after the expulsion of Julius Malema, told City Press that there had been a delay in payments because they had not yet received pledged funding.
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