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MULTI-TALENTED DUDU DUBE PASSES ON

07/12/2020 23:55:00 BY NTOKOZO MAGONGO

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MBABANE – It’s another sad day for the sporting fraternity.

This comes after the passing away of multi-talented Dudu Emmah Dube. She passed away having served as the Football International Federation Association (FIFA), Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) match commissioner and Eswatini Women’s Football President.

She did not end by serving football but she was a multi-talented person who excelled outside football as she had a green belt in Taekwondo, and was an excellent tennis player. Dube also served as Teqball Eswatini vice president.

Eswatini Football Association (EFA) Communications and Marketing Officer Muzi Radebe said they were still waiting for a correspondence regarding her death yesterday.

The Council of Southern Africa Football Association (COSAFA), where she was also a match commissioner, conveyed their condolences on the passing away of Dube who last served in the organisation during the COSAFA Women’s Championships in November, where the national team, Sitsebe, took part.

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“COSAFA has learnt with great sadness of the passing of Dudu Emmah Dube, a CAF and FIFA Match Commissioner, and former Eswatini Women Football President. The multi-talented Dube played an instrumental role in the development of women’s football on the African continent, having been a player herself with Kappa Ladies, Two For Joy and Shepherds Athletics, and was also captain of the Eswatini national team for six years. But it was in the Beautiful Game where she really made her mark and played a leading role in petitioning FIFA to support African women’s football at their 1998 Congress in Los Angeles,” COSAFA General Secretary Sue Destombes said.

Destombes said she was a great friend of COSAFA and an excellent match commissioner who was most recently with them at the 2020 Women’s Championship.

“She was always wonderful company and had left her mark in African women’s football. Her contribution to developing the game will not be forgotten,” she added.

Dube was a graduate of the University of Eswatini (UNESWA) and Tshwane University of Technology with majors in Environmental Health and a B-Tech in Environmental Studies respectively. She had been working for the Eswatini Ministry of Health as an Environmental Health Officer.