Despite her setbacks in South African football, businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize has not thrown in the towel just yet.

Mkhize is on the brink of taking over one of Eswatini’s biggest clubs, Mbabane Highlanders, if reports from South Africa’s neighbouring country are anything to go by.

Fittingly, Highlanders are nicknamed Ezimnyama Ngenkani.

Efforts to get a comment from Mkhize drew a blank over the course of Thursday, but the scribes in Eswatini have it on good authority that she would be in charge of the club.

Highlanders are part of the big three in Eswatini alongside Mbabane Swallows and Manzini Wanderers. Those three are interchangeably referred to as the biggest clubs.

Highlanders are the most successful football club in Eswatini, having lifted a record 13 Premier League titles.

The country’s Daily News is on record stating Mkhize “becomes the first female leader of the capital city giants” and follows in the “footsteps of the late Busi Dlamini in the list of female leaders for (Swazi) Premier League club.”

During a Wednesday meeting at the Summerfield Botanical Garden situated in Manzini—the country’s second-largest urban center behind the capital, Mbabane—Mkhize reportedly signed on the dotted line.

“All that is left is to do the official unveiling; otherwise, the meeting with MaMkhize went well, and she’s the new club president,” confirmed a source to Daily News.

Meanwhile, Mkhize’s latest court bid to save Royal AM failed last week.

The Pretoria High Court dismissed Mkhize’s latest attempt to have the Premier Soccer League (PSL) reinstate Royal AM after the club was expelled.

She was ordered to pay the costs of the sitting, but as it turns out, Mkhize is still in the game.