{"id":2204,"date":"2025-08-29T11:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:47:01","slug":"put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/2204\/sports\/soccer\/put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Put your houses in order &#8211; PLE  tells clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Sibusiso Masilela<br \/><br \/>The Premier League of Eswatini has urged clubs to put their houses in order ahead of the 2025 8Bet Trade Fair Cup kick off on Saturday.<br \/><br \/>The topflight football entity\u2019s Chairman Polycarp Dlamini says this would ensure smooth proceedings of the annual knockout tournament.<br \/><br \/>This was during the kit presentation for the E2.5million sponsored knockout tournament held on Thursday at Mavuso Sports Centre.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe call upon teams to put their houses in order before the kick-off of the tournament on Saturday. Teams only have Friday to sort out their differences to ensure smooth proceedings of the tournament,\u201d he said.<br \/><br \/>Dlamini said they are independent from club ownership.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2209\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/back-page-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><br \/><br \/>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be dragged into club disputes, and clubs are allowed to run their affairs independently. We only mediate when approached by the affected parties,\u201d he said.<br \/><br \/>Dlamini\u2019s statement comes after capital city giants Mbabane Swallows are engulfed by an ownership wrangle between the two factions headed by Absalom Ngwenya and Princess Lungile.<br \/><br \/>Mbabane Highlanders AM FC is also having a pending High Court battle between former President Bheki &#8216;Rubber\u2019 Simelane and the Patrons.<br \/><br \/>Simelane is challenging the termination of his 18 months contract and the appointment of South African businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize.<br \/><br \/>The matter will be back in court on September 21,2025, before High Court Judge Titus Mlangeni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sibusiso Masilela The Premier League of Eswatini has urged clubs to put their houses in order ahead&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43],"tags":[46,79,70,58,53,80,68],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-betway-premiership","tag-caf","tag-national","tag-soccer","tag-south-africa","tag-sport","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Put your houses in order - PLE tells clubs - Eswatini Daily News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/2204\/sports\/soccer\/put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Put your houses in order - PLE tells clubs - Eswatini Daily News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sibusiso Masilela The Premier League of Eswatini has urged clubs to put their houses in order ahead&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/2204\/sports\/soccer\/put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini Daily News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T09:47:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eswatini Daily News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eswatini Daily News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\\\/edn\\\/2204\\\/sports\\\/soccer\\\/put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\\\/edn\\\/2204\\\/sports\\\/soccer\\\/put-your-houses-in-order-ple-tells-clubs\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eswatini Daily News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\\\/edn\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a2e7ad908f0e6606cc49214ec19776de\"},\"headline\":\"Put your houses in order &#8211; 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