Orlando Pirates News Today: How Bucs were prevented from signing a legend, date with Sundowns & more

Latest news about Orlando Pirates in the last 24 hours, including how they failed in bid to land Doctor Khumalo, and big game between Bucs, Mamelodi Sundowns and more.

How Pirates were prevented from signing a legend

Kaizer Chiefs Football Manager Bobby Motaung has narrated a story of how he prevented Orlando Pirates from signing Doctor Khumalo as a 16-year old budding talent.

“I want to rectify something, I hear that you wanted to go to Swallows, no, no, the other way round. So we used to host tournaments in Brits, where we had businesses in Brits, nightclubs, shops, at the nightclub, he (Khumalo) used to be a DJ, I used to look after the money,” Motaung said as quoted by Soccer Laduma.

“When they went to the tournament, I was a guard at the gate (as a cashier). Pirates sent their own people, because there was an aunt of ours who was at Pirates, she told them, ‘There are stars here’, Pirates ya nyonyoba (Pirates came undercover), this guy (Khumalo) was hot. It was packed.

“At night, we shared the same bed (me and Doctor) and hey, I saw these Pirates officials. I took a taxi at 5am in the morning, I came to Jo’burg, I went to the Chairman’s office (Dr. Kaizer Motaung), he was worried, ‘What do you want’?’. I said, ‘Bra K, there is something happening and we’re going to lose him, the vultures are there in Brits but let’s have a strategy of how we deal with this’. At that time there were no official contracts.

So I said, ‘Go fetch his mother and father, sit them down and make them sign a contract’. When he (Khumalo) woke up, he got a call that ‘you must come home’, when he got home in Dube (Soweto), he found the Chairman (Dr. Kaizer Motaung), his mother and father sitting and they said ‘sign this paper’,” Motaung concluded.

Pirates set for tough outing with Sundowns

Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns clash in the ultimate DStv Diski Challenge [DDC] showdown. With the league title on the line, who will rise to the occasion and be crowned the new DDC champions?