Posted on July 26, 2024
Tuks made a welcome return to the Men’s Varsity Football tournament by beating VUT 1–0 on Thursday, 25 July 2024. Coach Nicholas Stothard could be forgiven for briefly thinking, "I love it when a plan comes together." He wanted his "Boys" to start the campaign on a winning note to...
Posted on July 24, 2024
Morongwa Manamela has become a key player in the Tuks women's football team. She is one of the few, maybe the only one, who can say they have been playing for Tuks for seven years. Manamela debuted in 2018 while still at TuksSport High School. Please don't ask her how many games she has played,...
Posted on July 22, 2024
One of the most iconic phrases in a Hollywood movie was undoubtedly when Arnold Schwarzenegger promised in Terminator, "I will be back". Understandably, Tuks is out to prove something. The head coach, Nicholas Stothard, admits to it. Being the 2024 USSA champions means Tuks will achieve a unique...
Posted on May 31, 2024
Tlisane Motaung is succeeding. In ten days, AmaTuks will start to battle it out to play in the PSL promotion playoffs. It is the second time in three years that the team will do so. In the 2021/2022 season, Tuks lost in the final against Swallows. Since Motaung took the reigns as AmaTuks head...
Posted on April 12, 2024
90 minutes of faultless football and an ability to capitalise on Mamelodi Sundowns’ mistakes is the challenge that awaits AmaTuks on Friday when they play the quarterfinals of the Nedbank Cup. The odds are certainly stacked against AmaTuks. Since 2022, Sundowns have gone 40 DStv Premiership...
Posted on March 25, 2024
"David versus Goliath" is how many might perceive AmaTuks' quarterfinal clash against Mamelodi Sundowns in the 2024 Nedbank Cup edition. Considering the head-to-head results between the two sides, AmaTuks has yet to secure a victory against Sundowns, managing only three league draws. But believe...
Posted on February 28, 2024
Thabiso Mokoena can claim to have been there, done that, and gotten the t-shirt to prove it - playing football at the highest level. The 31-year-old has played for SuperSport United and the Black Leopards. For the last three years, he has been at AmaTuks. Many might perceive playing in the...
Posted on January 22, 2024
Making a difference in people's lives through football is Boitumelo Lekalakala's passion. In December, she was awarded the Hollywoodbets Super League Administrator of the Season 2023. That simply sends a statement that she must be doing something right behind the scenes as the TuksFootball Club...
Posted on December 06, 2023
Making a difference through sport is the one thing Nhlanhla Mabaso is passionate about. But it is a case of first things first. From next week in Cape Town, he will play for Tuks at the 2023 USSA Football Championships edition. Mabaso makes no secret that he and his teammates are out to prove a...
Posted on October 23, 2023
TuksSport High is 21! From humble beginnings to monumental success, TuksSport High School is celebrating 21 years since its founding in 2002.
Posted on August 14, 2023
"The mark of a great captain is not just winning games but creating a winning culture," says the captain of the Tuks women's football team, Morongwa Manamela, as she takes the reins once again.
Posted on August 05, 2023
To make South Africa proud. That is the challenge Banyana Banyana are set for tomorrow when they clash against the Netherlands in the round of 16 of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. "What motivated us is to make history, remembering everyone back at home...
Posted on June 16, 2023
Years ago, kids regularly kicked around a plastic bottle. It might have looked like they were only fooling around. But they were not. There was always a football game that needed to be won. One seven-year-old girl's skills caught the attention of a teacher. Asa Rabalao of TuksFootball Women is...
Posted on June 09, 2023
Over the last five weekends, the TuksFootball Women’s team has made club history, registering two biggest victories of seven-nil and securing their fifth successive victory. In their last five encounters, they scored 21 goals and conceded only two. They twice notched up seven goals...
Posted on May 29, 2023
A few years back, Wendy Shongwe promised her dad she would take up football again after she finished matric at TuksSport High School and formed part of the TuksAthletics Academy. She kept her word. In 2021, she was back on the field. It did not take long for her natural talent to come to the...
Posted on May 18, 2023
Having reached the milestone of 100 caps playing for AmaTuks, Frank Mpedi can rightfully claim to have been there, done that and got the t-shirt to prove it, but he is not. To him, there is still that one main objective to accomplish. That is to help AmaTuks qualify to play Premier League...
Posted on February 23, 2023
Plants and football are the two things Ncamisile Shongwe is genuinely passionate about. Whether the PhD Horticultural Science student at Tuks is dirtying her hands in the soil or artfully dribbling the ball past football opponents does not matter. Her goal remains the same. She wants to make...
Posted on September 19, 2022
One thing that matters to the TuksFootball head coach, Maude Khumalo, is teamwork because it makes dream work. "You may have the most incredible number of individual stars, but the team won't amount to anything if they don't play as a team. It is often said that talent wins games, but teamwork...
Posted on September 05, 2022
Marco Giuricich might be a novice in playing Varsity Football, but from a Tuks perspective, he is slowly getting his rhythm and knowing what the tournament was all about. He is the one who scored the winning goal in the dying seconds against TUT in Round 5. It was undoubtedly a significant...
Posted on August 26, 2022
Nelson Mandela once said, "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." These words will stand for the TuksFootball team in good stead next week when they face Wits in Round 7, the last round of the prelim phase. Tuks find themselves with their...
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