From Nonku Williams to Simz and 26 other women: Brown Mbombo puts together female soccer tournament
The five-a-side soccer tournament will take place on 26 September 2026.
Brown Mbombo is organizing a female soccer tournament featuring celebrities, businesswomen, and philanthropists, called the Soccer Fab tournament. The event will take place at the Mall of Africa Level 5 Rooftop Soccer Park in Johannesburg on September 26th. Twenty-eight women will compete in four teams - Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow. Attendees are encouraged to donate toiletries and sanitary towels instead of paying the usual entry fees for the tournament.
Mbombo says the idea for Soccer Fab originated from a casual soccer game she and her friends played. The first event, a "Brown Fun Day," quickly evolved into a more significant initiative to support disadvantaged children. When spectators were invited to donate sanitary pads, the response exceeded expectations, leading Mbombo to realize the potential of the tournament to do more than just entertain.
The Soccer Fab tournament is being hosted in collaboration with the KwaMbombo Foundation, Happy Kidz, and Frdm. The winning team will have the power to determine where the collected donations go. The team that emerges victorious can decide on the charity or community they wish to support, as well as the province in South Africa where the donations will be distributed. For the previous Soccer Fab event, the winning team opted to support four schools in the Free State.
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