Pietersburg Pillars was a South African
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club.
The club was renamed City Pillars after the
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
n government changed the name of the town where the team was based from Pietersberg to
on 25 February 2005. In December 2006, the franchise was sold to the Morfou brothers who wished to re-introduce the
Mpumalanga Black Aces
Black Aces was a South African football club that played in the Premier Soccer League. Aces usually played their home games in the Mpumalanga province but were based and trained in Johannesburg.
History
The original club was founded in 1937 by ...
brand to the league following the original club's demise in 2002.
References
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Defunct soccer clubs in South Africa
Association football clubs established in 2000
National First Division clubs
2000 establishments in South Africa