‘I wanted to punish Pirates’
Picture this. You land in South Africa in anticipation of a move to your new club, only to end up sleeping at the airport on a chilly night in Johannesburg.
You then make your debut without having signed a contract, and only being handed R300 for groceries as ‘signing on fees’.
Years later, you are denied a move to Kaizer Chiefs when your club prices you out of the market before your playing career suffocates into the lower divisions and you end up taking employment as a glorified security guard.
Add to that, you cannot travel to your home country for over 20 years due to fear after your father – who was a soldier under Mobutu Sese Seko – dies in prison after being detained by the new president, Laurent Desire Kabila.
According to Bunene Ngaduane, this is what he experienced when he moved to South Africa.
To this day, the former striker remains as the all-time top scorer at Free State Stars, who were formerly known as QwaQwa Stars, with the 79 goals he scored in 169 starts before leaving the club in 2000.
This is the player famous for scoring two of the three goals that won the club the 1994 Coca-Cola Cup – one of just two trophies
