MaMkhize drags PSL to court over Royal AM axing

Club boss denies that she willfully misled the league

- By Ngwako Malatji

Royal AM president Shauwn “MaMkhize” Mkhize has filed an urgent application in the Joburg High Court to declare unlawful and set aside the decision by the PSL board of governors to expel her team from the money-spinning league.

Mkhize is pleading with the court to hear the application on Tuesday, May 20, before the league season comes to an end.

In the court papers, which we have seen, Mkhize said that her team was expelled from the PSL after the executive committee alleged that Royal AM misled the league in its application for renewal of membership it submitted to the regulatory body on July 1 last year, when it stated that its directors were herself and her son Andile Mpisane while the sole director was in fact Shamish Sadab.

“I deny that any misrepresentations were made,” she stated in the court papers.

Mkhize said the CIPC disclosure certificate records showed that Sadab was formally appointed as a director of Royal AM on July 26 last year. This was, she said, after the renewal of the membership application was submitted to the league on July 1 last year.

She said the club intended for Sadab to be recorded as the sole director of the club at the time the renewal of membership application was submitted to the league on July 1, 2024. However, because the CIPC had not yet amended its records, the club was unable to do so, she said.