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Women's Egyptian Premier League to Kick off on September 1
Rana Atef The Egyptian Football Association set September 1 as the new start date for the upcoming Women's Football League season, instead of the previously proposed date of August 22. The new season of the Women's Football League will feature 17 clubs: Al Ahly, Zamalek, Wadi Degla, Arab Contractors, Aviation, ENPPI, National Bank, ZED, Palm Hills, Masar, SAK FC, Ra'a, Modern Sport, Itihad Basyoun, Pyramids, Al Masry, and El Gouna. The opening week fixtures are as follows: National Bank vs. Ra'a Al Ahly vs. Aviation El Gouna vs. ENPPI Al Masry vs. Itihad Basyoun Modern Sport vs. Masar Zamalek vs. Palm Hills Wadi Degla vs. Arab Contractors ZED vs. Pyramids SAK FC: bye The draw also revealed that Zamalek will face Al Ahly in rounds 12 and 29 of the Premier League season. Masar won the Women's League title last season, while Al Ahly claimed the Egypt Cup, defeating Wadi Degla in the final. read more Japan Stun Spain 2-1 to Qualify for World Cup Last 16 World Cup 2022: Get to Know Confirmed Line-ups of Japan and Spain Group E Decider Saudi Arabia Bid Farewell to World Cup after 2-1 Loss to Mexico Tunisia Achieve Historic Win over France but Fail to Qualify Tunisia to Clash against France in World Cup Sports Get to Know Squad of Group D Teams in World Cup Sports Al Ahly Gift EGP 70,000 to Players After Claiming Egyptian Super Cup Title Sports Bencharki Hits First 2 Goals with Al Jazira Since Leaving Zamalek Sports Arsenal Possible Line-up for Nottingham Forest News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results News "Tensions Escalate: Iran Probes Allegations of Indian Tech Collaboration with Israeli Intelligence" News Flights suspended at Port Sudan Airport after Drone Attacks
IOL News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- IOL News
Jeff Radebe urges ANC members to unite in memory of David Mabuza
Former deputy president David Mabuza will be laid to rest on Saturday in Mpumalanga. Image: X KwaZulu-Natal ANC convener Jeff Radebe has called on party members to honour the late former deputy president David Mabuza by striving for unity. Speaking at Mabuza's provincial memorial service in Durban on Thursday afternoon, Radebe reminded the ANC supporters that the party was founded on the unity of African people and urged supporters to honour the late Mabuza by uniting all people, starting at their homes, uniting siblings and neighbours. "Comrades, when the ANC was founded in 1912, it preached unity; therefore, let's go back to the ANC's number one value in honour of comrade Mabuza," said Radebe. He said he interacted with Mabuza many times and was deployed by the ANC when Mabuza was elected as the provincial chairperson in Mpumalanga. He hailed his contributions as a teacher and a school principal, saying the ANC always emphasised education and made it a number one priority with the biggest budget in the country. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Window Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Transparency Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Dropshadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. Advertisement Next Stay Close ✕ Ad loading Speaking on behalf of the Women's League in the province, senior member Bongi Sithole-Moloi said Mabuza, as a Mpumalanga provincial chairperson, was the first to design ANC-branded gazebos and sound-mounted branded ANC vans, which he always lent to KwaZulu-Natal leadership whenever there were elections and by-elections. Mabuza, who was 64 years old at the time of his death last week, was born and raised in Mpumalanga. Besides being a teacher and principal, he obtained a Psychology degree. He will be buried in his province on Saturday. He has been honoured with a category 2 state funeral, and President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy. Mabuza was the first Education MEC in Mpumalanga before being appointed as a premier. In 2017, he was elected as the ANC deputy president alongside Ramaphosa as the president. He served as deputy president of the country from 2019 to 2023. He did not contest any position in the 55th elective conference in 2022 and subsequently resigned as the country's deputy president. In a statement, party Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula described Mabuza as someone who dedicated his life to the service of the people of South Africa.
The Sun
17-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Cornelli eyes friendlies as key prep for Malayan Tigress to Asian Cup qualifiers
PETALING JAYA,: New Malayan Tigress head coach Joel Cornelli has described the two upcoming international football friendlies against Bhutan and Hong Kong, and two matches against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as ideal preparations for the team ahead of his first major task at the 2026 Women's Asian Cup qualifiers in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Cornelli said the upcoming fixtures will be crucial for him to assess the capabilities of his squad and implement his footballing philosophy before heading to Tajikistan in June. 'This will be a very important week of training to get to know the players and to start implementing my philosophy and game model with the team. 'Bhutan and Hong Kong are not in our qualifying group, but it is very important to see the level of our team at this moment because this is the only available match window,' he told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Women's League Qualifying Round at the PKNS Field here today. The national team are set to take part in the Tier 1 Tri-Nation International Series in Thimphu, Bhutan, facing Bhutan (May 31) and Hong Kong ( June 4), before travelling to the UAE for two more warm-up matches on June 20 and 22. Cornelli said the friendlies would allow him to address weaknesses in the squad, particularly in attacking and finishing. 'I've only seen the girls in video footage matches against Indonesia, Cambodia in August, and Saudi Arabia, and we didn't score many goals. 'Of course, we need to work on that during these friendly matches so I can identify the best positions for the players and better understand where our weaknesses lie,' he said. For the AFC Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers, Malaysia have been placed in a challenging Group H, alongside three-time champions North Korea. Malaysia will also meet Palestine and Tajikistan, who will host the qualifiers from June 23 to July 5. Only the group champions will advance to the finals, which will take place in Australia from March 1 to 21 next year. Malaysia last qualified for the Women's Asian Cup in 1995 when they hosted the tournament. The national team's best-ever performance in the tournament was a third-place finish in the 1983 edition, held in Thailand.
The Sun
17-05-2025
- Sport
- The Sun
Malayan Tigress Coach Eyes Friendlies as Key Prep
PETALING JAYA,: New Malayan Tigress head coach Joel Cornelli has described the two upcoming international football friendlies against Bhutan and Hong Kong, and two matches against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as ideal preparations for the team ahead of his first major task at the 2026 Women's Asian Cup qualifiers in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Cornelli said the upcoming fixtures will be crucial for him to assess the capabilities of his squad and implement his footballing philosophy before heading to Tajikistan in June. 'This will be a very important week of training to get to know the players and to start implementing my philosophy and game model with the team. 'Bhutan and Hong Kong are not in our qualifying group, but it is very important to see the level of our team at this moment because this is the only available match window,' he told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Women's League Qualifying Round at the PKNS Field here today. The national team are set to take part in the Tier 1 Tri-Nation International Series in Thimphu, Bhutan, facing Bhutan (May 31) and Hong Kong ( June 4), before travelling to the UAE for two more warm-up matches on June 20 and 22. Cornelli said the friendlies would allow him to address weaknesses in the squad, particularly in attacking and finishing. 'I've only seen the girls in video footage matches against Indonesia, Cambodia in August, and Saudi Arabia, and we didn't score many goals. 'Of course, we need to work on that during these friendly matches so I can identify the best positions for the players and better understand where our weaknesses lie,' he said. For the AFC Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers, Malaysia have been placed in a challenging Group H, alongside three-time champions North Korea. Malaysia will also meet Palestine and Tajikistan, who will host the qualifiers from June 23 to July 5. Only the group champions will advance to the finals, which will take place in Australia from March 1 to 21 next year. Malaysia last qualified for the Women's Asian Cup in 1995 when they hosted the tournament. The national team's best-ever performance in the tournament was a third-place finish in the 1983 edition, held in Thailand.
Indian Express
17-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
IUML opens doors to women in national leadership. Why Jayanthi Rajan breaks many ceilings
For the first time in its history, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has inducted women into its national leadership, including a non-Muslim face. Jayanthi Rajan, a Dalit leader from Kerala, and Fathima Muzaffer from Tamil Nadu, both members of the IUML women's wing, were chosen by the party Thursday to become national assistant secretaries in its national council. Their names were announced at a meeting in Chennai, which also saw the IUML elect a national president and other office-bearers. The induction of the two women faces is expected to help the IUML shed its image of a 'male-dominated party'. An ally of the Congress, the IUML has often wrestled with juggling between the growing demand for better women's representation in the party and the conservatism advocated by Muslim clerics. In 2021, Haritha, the women's wing of the IUML's Muslim Students Federation (MSF), had held protests over gender-related issues within the party. After this, the IUML had set up a 20% representation benchmark for women in all its affiliated groups. Last year, the IUML inducted women into the state leadership of the Youth League, the party's youth wing, for the first time. The 46-year-old Rajan, who hails from Wayanad and belongs to a family of 'Congress supporters', began her journey with the IUML in the 2010 local body elections, which were the first after 50% seats in these bodies were reserved for women. The IUML looked for eligible women beyond the Muslim community to field, and this led them to Rajan for a ward under the Poothadi panchayat in Wayanad. Rajan by then was already active in social work. Rajan told The Indian Express: 'In 2004, I began my career with a Church-run NGO, which was involved in women's empowerment through micro-financing and self-help groups. The IUML was also involved in a lot of charitable works in the area and that helped me find beneficiaries… Their involvement in charity and social causes influenced me.' Rajan won the local body elections as an IUML representative, and simultaneously joined the party's Women's League, going on to become a member of its Wayanad district committee. She was later nominated to the state committee of the Dalit League, which is a wing within the IUML. In 2015, she contested elections to the block panchayat and won. 'For the last nine years, I have been in the national committee of the Women's League. I have never felt odd in the party. The leadership of the IUML or Women's League has never approached me as a non-Muslim person,' she said, adding that things had changed since. 'When I joined the Women's League, there were very few Muslim women in the IUML or its affiliated outfits. Now, we have several educated women in the party.' On conservative clergy and their objections to women in public places, Rajan said, 'I am only part of the IUML, I need not comment on what the clerics say. In fact, I have shared the dais with clerics too.' While the reservation of 50% seats for women in local bodies may have led the IUML to open the doors to women candidates at this level, the party has had very few women candidates for Assembly or Lok sabha elections. In the 2021 Kerala Assembly elections, the party fielded a woman candidate, advocate Noorbeena Rasheed, from the Kozhikode South constituency, for the first time in 25 years. Rasheed, however, lost the seat to a candidate of the Indian National League.
