[5][6] In the 2001–02 regular season, Modise scored 51 goals for Soweto Ladies,[5] adding two more in the 4–0 National Championship final win over Cape Town Pirates.

[8][9] A dispute over sponsorship and funding left Modise and compatriots Toni Carelse and Veronica Phewa unable to sign for the English club despite impressing manager Vic Akers during the trials.

[15] She wasn't part of the initial training camp for the 2014 African Women's Championship squad, because she was playing 'under the radar' outside of South Africa, in deed for a men's team.

[5] In the 2000 Women's African Football Championship, she featured in all South Africa's games, scoring her first goal against Zimbabwe[2] as well as playing in the tournament final, a defeat to Nigeria which was marred by crowd violence.

[18] In 2005, Modise was one of two African footballers, alongside Perpetua Nkwocha, to be nominated for the Women's FIFA World Player of the Year,[19] which was won by Birgit Prinz.

[25] In South Africa's first match at the games, a 4–1 defeat to Sweden in Coventry, Modise scored a goal from inside the centre circle.

[2] In March 2005 Ria Ledwaba, head of the women's committee at the South African Football Association (SAFA), announced plans to send players to etiquette workshops and supply tighter kit to increase their femininity.

"[32] In 2011, she appeared in a television documentary which highlighted the plight of lesbians in South Africa, who live in fear of "corrective rape", violence and murder.