Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter

Sazi Hadebe is passionate about writing about SA football and has done it for more than 20 years. He's the former editor of Isolezwe (between 2012 and early 2016). Other than football, he follows almost all other sports and local news and events around the world. He's in his second stint as football writer at the Sunday Times and was part of the the team that broke the Operation Dribble story, a referee scandal in SA football, in 2004. The story won him an SAB Sports Award, alongside Kgomotso Mokoena, in 2005.

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Could Maart’s smart goal be enough to save Nabi at Chiefs? He may need more

You just wonder how 80-year-old Kaizer Motaung reacted watching from his home back in Johannesburg

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Amakhosi end decade-long cup jinx

Desire, grit and zeal. That was what it took for Kaizer Chiefs to end their trophy drought yesterday — exactly a day and  a decade since Amakhosi ...

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Amajita on brink of booking World Cup ticket

Amajita will qualify for the Fifa Under-20 World Cup if they beat DR Congo in the Caf U20 Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinal clash on Monday ...

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
SuperSport to be sold to Bloem Celtic?

SuperSport United, as they have been known since they were founded after purchasing Pretoria City in 1994, may no longer be a part of South African ...

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
'It's not about me': Riveiro on cusp of scoring most wins in Soweto derby

Jose Riveiro has tried to downplay what it will mean for him to leave SA having become the first coach to win six successive Soweto derbies if he ...

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Pirates’ big wins this season give them swagger for final against Chiefs: Xoki

Centreback says senior players let Bucs’ exciting young emerging stars ‘be themselves’.

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Nedbank final tickets sold out, thousands to be refunded amid chaos

Due to ‘a glitch ... the system allowed more people to make payments than there is capacity for.’

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
It’s not really Riveiro giving them chances, it’s Pirates: coach on Bucs’ young ...

Spaniard happy to have headache in depth of club’s burgeoning talent for derby Nedbank Cup final.

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Nabi sings ‘process’, but signs of ‘progress’ at Chiefs almost non-existent

Amakhosi are dishing out some of their worst results under any coach since the club was formed

Sazi Hadebe Sports reporter
Riveiro completes a second successive league double over Chiefs

Orlando Pirates didn’t have to dish out their A game to complete a second successive league double over their Soweto rivals Kaizer Chiefs in a Betway ...