‘PUPU’ STRUGGLING TO SECURE WORK PERMIT AT SA COSMOS

MBABANE – Four months into the new season, former Manzini Sundowns midfielder Banele ‘Pupu’ Sikhondze is yet to kick a ball competitively.

The player, who signed a two-year deal with South Africa’s Jomo Cosmos, is still waiting for his work permit at the club he joined in August. Team manager and former  Cosmos defender Andrew Rabutla said they were waiting for the Home Affairs Department to respond to their application for the dribbling wizard’s permit. “He is training and we hope to get the work permit soon so that he can start playing,”he said.

Meanwhile, Mzwandile ‘Navara’ Ndzimandze is having a good time at the club that has climbed the National First Division League log table to fourth after 10 games with 16 points.

Both players have missed out on the opportunity to earn a senior national team call up in the recent games against Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia. In fact, they were not part of the Sihlangu side that crashed out of the AFCON 2015 qualifier against Sierra Leone in June.

Sikhondze joined Cosmos in a dramatic move early in the season, when he had been earlier set to join another First Division side, Black Leopard. However, he had a change of heart and relocated to the Johannesburg based former Absa Premiership side owned by Ephraim ‘Jomo’ Sono.

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