MHLUME PEACEMAKERS WHO? – PLE

MBABANE – Mhlume Peacemakers who?

This is the statement made by the Premier League of Eswatini (PLE) in response to defunct Mhlume United boss and MP-elect Victor Malambe’s comments.
The latter was in this newspaper’s Back Page yesterday, reportedly challenging the PLE over the status of Matsapha United, who announced they had sold their elite league status to Mhlume Peacemakers, a Lubombo Super League side. Malambe had been co-director at Matsapha United but only discovered through court papers that the club was registered as a company and his name was not among its directors, just recently.

“We’re aware of Malambe’s concerns but we’re also clear that as the PLE, we have nothing to do with the Matsapha’s status or ownership. All we ever did was request them to give us a board of governor and their previous one, Sipho Shongwe, as per our Constitution, appointed Sibusiso ‘Scorpion’ Nxumalo,” said a source at PLE, who did not want to be named. The impeccable source said Nxumalo was only a Matsapha United board of governor at PLE; anything else was what they were also reading in the press, especially the mention of Peacemakers.

“We have nothing to do with the club’s ownership but their representation in the PLE structure and that’s what we were given. Ownership issues can better be explained by the EFA and we don’t even have any document for a name change to Peacemakers. Even if it comes, it will not happen until the next PLE AGM,” said one of the highly-placed sources at PLE.

Register his concern

The organisation’s CEO, Simanga Nhleko, was also in the meeting yesterday with Malambe who had come to register his concern, saying he had been reading about the elite status of Matsapha given to another team without his consent, yet he had rights to it.

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