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against SuperSport United at Thohoyandou Stadium on April 8 2022.
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won two league titles at SuperSport United under Gavin Hunt
"Because nobody sees what I have to do with [Kerr's assistants] David Mathebula and Mpho Maleka and all the other staff‚" Kerr‚ glowing from a trophy win‚ said after Saturday night's cup final. "We've had a lot of work to do to do on and off the field. It's not just the training we have to deal with. We've had to deal with all sorts of issues and problems and it's not football-related. "On Tuesday morning I had to spend two-and-a-half hours running around Polokwane‚ getting things in place‚ getting a friend to drive all the way from Johannesburg to Polokwane with my PSL card. "And to cap it off to get this win in the circumstances has been absolutely a dream come true. "And I'm so proud of everybody who's been involved with the club.
How Wits' sold status pushed Buhle to the brinkFormer Bafana Bafana defender Buhle Mkhwanazi thought of quitting the game after Bidvest Wits sold their Premiership status to Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila in 2019/20 season. Mkhwanazi refused to move with the team to Venda at the time. He found himself without a football home for newly two seasons. Mkhwanazi, 31, stayed at his Midrand home without an income, and he told Sowetan that he is still awaiting his settlement from TTM. The settlement matter is currently in the hands of his lawyers, and he is hopeful that he would eventually receive his much-needed payout. After months of uncertainty, he eventually agreed to join SuperSport United on a one-year contract with an option to renew in the 2021/22 Premiership season. He made his debut for SuperSport against Golden Arrows at the Lucas Moripe Stadium last week.
“I have been around at my home in Midrand all this time watching the games on TV. They were times when I thought that I had lost my mind. "I was frustrated, and the thought of quitting the game did ring in my mind several times. I told myself it is time to call it a day. I wanted to retire. I must have changed my mind 10 times during that period, ” explained Mkhwanazi. He said his uncle, younger sister, and the birth of his son, Musa, convinced him to return to the field of play. “I am a breadwinner and support a lot of people, and they suffered because I could not give them those few thousands anymore, ” he said. Mkhwanazi said he lived off his savings and investments, and they almost dried out.
“The new owner paid R30m, and he is going to pay another R10m at a later stage, meaning the purchase price was R40m in total. ”PSL chief executive Mato Madlala and Mulaudzi could not be reached for comment yesterday. But the SA Football Players Union president Thulaganyo Gaoshubelwe is worried about the potential sale of the club. "We encourage investments as we are experiencing a shortage of black investors in football, but we cannot be happy if the investment is disadvantaging the players.
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Bought for R40m, TTM to relocate to PolokwaneA prominent Limpopo businessman has been unmasked as the new owner of Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila, with the embattled club changing hands for a second time in less than a year following a tumultuous period in the DStv Premiership. Sowetan has seen correspondence indicating that Ditonkana Abram Sello, the Sekhukhune-born businessman who owns a team called Olezar in the ABC Motsepe League in Limpopo, has emerged as TTM's new owner after agreeing to pay R40m to acquire the club from Lawrence Mulaudzi. Mulaudzi had initially paid around R50m to buy Bidvest Wits' status last year, but has now been forced to sell amid a troubled past few months for the club, with players constantly going on strike over unpaid salaries.
This year the morale at the club has hit rock bottom; only last week there were reports players had been stranded at the airport in Durban. New owner Sello is a pharmacist based in Gauteng. But unlike Mulaudzi, he is not a stranger to football. Sowetan understands he has beaten North West medical practitioner Sello Ntsoko to purchase the club. This newspaper has seen documents indicating that TTM has been sold to Sello, the pharmacist.
WATCH: ‘When you want to watch football, watch Sundowns, ’ says Masibusane ZongoAs the Mamelodi Sundowns juggernaut edges an unprecedented fifth successive league title, former stylish SuperSport United midfielder Masibusane Zongo said they are the only team he enjoys watching in SA. Zongo, who recently turned 32, is widely regarded as one of the most talented players of his generation, but never fulfilled his potential as a result of poor discipline on and off the field. Asked for his views about the standard of the DStv Premiership, the straight-talking Zongo said Sundowns, who opened an 11-point lead with their 4-2 win over Swallows FC on Wednesday, are in a league of their own.
He trained in his garden, and SuperSport coach Kaitano Tembo was surprised to see him fit during his first training session. “I don’t know why it is taking time for me to get my money from TTM. The lawyers are working on it. We are still waiting. I had a lot of offers, but SuperSport convinced me to join them. When I received the phone call to come and train with them, I never looked back. ” The lanky defender said the feeling of playing his first PSL game after many months was indescribable. “It was emotional, and I had to hold back the tears. I thank God for another chance. I have to work on my defending ability, fitness and endurance. I hope to play many games and help the team to do well this season. ” His message to the people that have lost jobs is to hang in there and believe in God. “Retrenchment and loss of a job can break families, marriages and all sorts of relationships.
TTM's cup-winning coach Dylan Kerr: I had to spend two-and-a-half hours running around PolokwaneDylan Kerr's journey to being a trophy-winning coach in South Africa has had plenty of twists‚ turns and obstacles‚ to the point that even by Tuesday he was not certain to sit on the bench for Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) in Saturday night's Nedbank Cup final. TTM brushed aside Chippa United with an assured display at the Free State Stadium that was far more convincing than the 1-0 scoreline suggests.
"And I returned 20-odd years later when Sammy Troughton brought me back. And I've been in and out of the country three or four times. And it's always been a struggle. "I've always said I know how to do my job‚ because I work really hard both on and off the field. And to do this the way I've done it is credit not just to me but to the chairman [Sello] who brought me to the club. A lot of people said I was making the biggest mistake going to TTM. "And [also credit to] the help I've had from my two assistants who've embraced the way that we've worked together.
Bought for R40m, TTM to relocate to Polokwane Phineas Ravhuhali of Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila challenged by Gamphani
Lungu of Supersport United during the DStv Premiership 2020/21
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Kerr was asked if the Nedbank victory‚ secured via exciting attacking midfielder Ndabayithethwa Ndlondlo’s 27th-minute strike‚ was his biggest achievement in SA football. "Look‚ the biggest achievement I've ever had is coming to South Africa in 1986. It opened my eyes to the football fraternity of in those days the NSL‚" he responded.
The documents show that TTM chair Shumani Lawrence Mulaudzi transferred his powers of being a director to Sello last Friday. Sello, the documents show, transferred an amount of R30m to Mulaudzi, leaving him with a balance of R10m to be paid before the end of the season. The two parties are awaiting the PSL to approve the transaction. Sowetan understands the club will move from Vhembe district to their new base in Polokwane soon. An insider said Mulaudzi and Sello had been in negotiations to exchange directorship since late last year. "Dr Ntsoko made an offer, but it was not successful, " the informant said.
For Kerr - who has spent three months directing affairs from the stands for the new Premiership club who‚ under the new ownership of Abram Sello have been striving to put their past tribulations under previous owner Lawrence Mulaudzi aside - it was a sweet victory. The former winger‚ who spent three exciting seasons playing at Arcadia Shepherds in the 1980s‚ only resolved his work permit issue on Tuesday‚ just in time to sit on the bench in TTM's last-gasp 2-1 league win against Kaizer Chiefs at Peter Mokaba Stadium that night. "It's been surreal. But the hard work that goes on behind the scenes doesn't get recognised.
I can't really pay homage to them much more than say thank you. "Kerr had a fascinating playing career‚ arriving at 18 in the old National Soccer League (NSL) for coach Stan Lapot's Shepherds having thought he had blown his chances in English pro football at Howard Wilkinson's Sheffield Wednesday. In the star-studded SA football of the 1980s‚ the teen winger was among 10 players nominated for the 1986 NSL Player of the Season. He has had a storied return to SA football as a coach‚ too‚ where he was an assistant for a few months to ex-Arcadia teammate Sammy Troughton at Mpumalanga Black Aces in 2009. Arriving from Kenya's Gor Mahia in November 2018‚ Kerr bounced between stints at Black Leopards‚ where he left after eight months for the UK when his mother was ill‚ and died; then Baroka FC (11 months)‚ Leopards again (two months)‚ and then his bizarre situation at TTM.
Mortified TTM coach Masutha apologises to the public after showing up at cup match with 14 players Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila FC (TTM) coach Joel Masutha has lined up
against SuperSport United with only 14 players on