The race for the league championship and to avoid relegation at the end of the season is becoming more intense by the day among the teams affiliated to the Limpopo Stream of the ABC Motsepe League. All eyes will be in the Vhembe derby between Munaca FC and Venda Football Academy that will be staged at the Louis Trichardt Show Grounds open field tomorrow afternoon.

After losing 2-4 to Chippas United Ladies at the Makhuvha Stadium last Sunday, Lacoste Morning Stars have another mountain to climb. They will host Botlokwa Ladies in their Sasol Women’s League match at the Shayandima High School grounds tomorrow afternoon.

Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila FC (TTM) may have collected the maximum points in their DStv Premiership League match against TS Galaxy at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg over the past weekend, but they are not yet out of danger.

The struggle for promotion in Stream E of the SAFA Vhembe MMK Administrators league is expected to intensify this weekend when log-leaders Madombidzha Arsenal and Madombidzha Try Again, who are in the second spot, clash.

The opening matches for the Sasol Women’s League in the Limpopo Stream will be played this weekend. The league programme should have commenced last weekend, but the league was compelled to postpone the fixture to this weekend at the eleventh hour.

Teams affiliated with the Limpopo Stream of the ABC Motsepe League will commence with their second-round league activities this weekend. Whether Tshakhuma RO Nandilani (TRON) will have enough strength to stop Mikhado FC when they meet at the Louis Hoërskool grounds tomorrow afternoon remains to be seen.

The struggle for promotion and to escape relegation at the end of the season will continue among the teams affiliated to the GladAfrica Championship League this weekend.

Black Leopards must start to collect significant league points if they are serious about escaping the relegation axe at the end of the season. Their next fixture will be against Moroka Swallows, with whom they will lock horns at the Dobsonville Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday afternoon.

After parting ways with Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila FC about three months ago, Mr Joel “The Prophet” Masutha has secured a new coaching job at Pretoria Callies FC. Masutha was announced as the team’s head coach last Thursday morning, a day after the club terminated the job contract of the team’s former head coach, Mr Sammy Troughton.

Magau United will come up against Tshikhwani Stone Breakers, the league-title contenders in the SAFA Vhembe MMK Administrators League Stream E group E2, at the Tshikhwani Grounds on Saturday.