{"id":85713,"date":"2026-02-25T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/highlanders-nsingeni-ingwenyama-mva-cup-violence"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:57:00","slug":"highlanders-nsingeni-ingwenyama-mva-cup-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/highlanders-nsingeni-ingwenyama-mva-cup-violence","title":{"rendered":"Highlanders Nsingeni Ingwenyama MVA Cup Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong> <\/span><b>Machawe Mavuso, the former Mkhiweni Member of Parliament (MP) has urged football governing bodies to take action against referees found to have made unjust decisions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday, the former MP said \u201cit\u2019s very unfortunate to note that most of the time, referees escape accountability\u201d even on clear blunders, he was reacting to a statement released by the Sincemphetelo Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (SMVAF) condemning the violence that erupted at Mavuso Trade Centre during the Ingwenyama Cup on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy it\u2019s always the teams who must apologise and be held accountable whenever fans behave violently?. I think holding referees accountable can mitigate such violent incidents,\u201d said the former MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Eswatini<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Machawe Mavuso, the former Mkhiweni Member of Parliament (MP) has urged football governing bodies to take action against referees found to have made unjust decisions. Speaking on Tuesday, the former MP said \u201cit\u2019s very unfortunate to note that most of the time, referees escape accountability\u201d even on clear blunders, he was reacting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":85711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-85713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Highlanders Nsingeni Ingwenyama MVA Cup Violence - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Eswatini. 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