City Press reports that nearly 50 players in the PSL have not been paid salaries for the past two months and some claim they are even owed salaries for December.

This was claimed by SA Football Players’ Union deputy secretary-general Calvin Motloung on Friday. He said the number could be even higher, as some players were suffering in silence. According to Motloung, seven PSL clubs, including financially strained DStv Premiership side Swallows, have not paid players. In the NFD, Free State Stars, Pretoria Callies, Polokwane City Rovers, Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila, the relegated TS Sporting and Jomo Cosmos were also accused of not paying some players their salaries. Rovers and Callies are apparently the main transgressors with 15 and 10 unpaid players, respectively. There were five cases each reported to the union by players at Swallows and Stars, four at Tshakhuma, three at Cosmos and two from Sporting. Motloung commented: “It impacts the players so badly. These guys have families, they’ve got people who depend on them.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tiisetso Malepa at City Press (subscriber access only)

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