Former Banyana Banyana captain Janine van Wyk will be inducted into the South African Hall of Fame next month (Friday, 14 November 2025).
The prestigious event will take place at the Silverstar Casino Hotel in Muldersdrift.
Joining the retired defender and JVW Head Coach will be South African football legends, former Bafana Bafana players Mark Fish, Doctor Khumalo, Mark Williams, Aaron Mokoena, while the late Phil Masinga and Head Coach Clive Barker will be honoured posthumously.
Fish, Khumalo, Williams and Masinga were instrumental in helping the national team lift the 1996 CAF Africa Cup of Nations, with the trio of Fish, Khumalo and Masinga going on to represent South Africa at the country’s first ever FIFA World Cup in 1998 in France.
According to halloffame.co.za.
“The South African Hall of Fame is proud to host the second instalment of the South African Soccer Legends Induction.
Inductees include: Posthumously: Phil Masinga and Clive Barker
Living Legends: Janine van Wyk, Mark Williams, Mark Fish, Doctor Khumalo & Aaron Mokoena.”
Van Wyk becomes the second South African woman footballer to be inducted, following in the footsteps of Banyana Banyana Head Coach Dr Desiree Ellis, who was honoured in November last year in the Hall of Fame induction. This was alongside legends Dr Jomo Sono, Lucas Radebe, Teenage Dladla, Ephraim Shakes Mashaba, Neil Tovey and
Ace Ntsoelengoe.
Also bestowed with this honour are the South African football administrators, Dr Irvin Khoza, Dr Kaizer Motaung and Dr Danny Jordaan.
The news of the induction for Van Wyk comes at a time when she has just been appointed assistant coach at Kristianstad DFF in the Damallsvenskan (Swedish Women’s Football League) for the 2026 season.
The well-travelled Van Wyk has played club football in the USA, Denmark, Scotland and Greece. She called time on her playing career at the end of 2023, taking on a new life as a coach at JVW, a team she co-founded with football administrator, Lauren Duncan.
She is currently the head coach at the club, with an impressive performance that sees them lying fourth on the table with 51 points after 24 matches in only her first season in charge. Van Wyk is armed with a CAF B and UEFA B Coaching Licenses – she obtained the latter in Scotland.
The Blue Diamonds are 11 points behind log leaders and defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies.
But prior to retirement, she broke a long-standing 11-year-old record of 184 national team appearances previously held by Ahmed Hassam of Egypt – setting a new one of 185 for both female and male players on the African continent.
The Hall of Fame induction comes at the back of other achievements.
Van Wyk was the captain of Banyana Banyana at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, Rio 2016 Olympic Games as well as the 2022 TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, with South Africa winning the latter competition, their first ever.
The retired defender has a silver medal from the 2008, 2012 and 2018 WAFCON as well as bronze from the 2006 and 2010 editions.
She was also part of the Glasgow City squad that won the Scottish Women’s Premier League in the 2020/2021 season
Van Wyk walked away with the COSAFA Women’s Championship Player of the Tournament in 2011, as well as the Ekurhuleni Sports Woman of the Year the following and was named the Sports Personality of the Year at the Gauteng Sports Awards in 2015. She was also included in the IFFHS All-time Team of the Decade in 2011-2020 and the 2021 IFFHS All-time Africa Women’s Dream Team.
By Matlhomola Morake
