Although the team are currently lying in 10th position on the log, Venda Football Club (VFC) are still aiming for automatic promotion to the Betway Premiership at the end of the current Motsepe Foundation Championship season.
VFC have collected eight points from six matches to date, while Milford FC lead the standings with 15 points from the same number of games.
While other clubs gave their players a few days off during the FIFA international break, it has been business as usual in the VFC camp. According to head coach Clinton Larsen, the players were given only one day off after last Sunday's game against Lerumo United at the Olympia Stadium in Rustenburg. VFC beat Lerumo United 1-0.
The league programme will resume next weekend, on 18 and 19 October. Larsen said their aim was to finish the season on top of the log and gain automatic promotion to the elite league. He added that if they failed to do so, they would target a top-three finish to qualify for the promotional playoffs.
Larsen said they would use the international break to tighten up the team's loose ends. He added that several friendly matches had been arranged against Betway Premiership teams and their Motsepe Foundation Championship counterparts.
Maunavhathu's next fixture is against The Bees FC at the Kanyamazane Stadium outside Nelspruit next Saturday, 18 October.