LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER COMING ON BOARD: SA ‘KEEPER DUMPS ‘BULL’

MBABANE – Capital City giants Mbabane Highlanders are set to lose shot-stopper Bongani Manavhela.

The agile goalkeeper reportedly wants out of the team after the alleged failure by the Mbabane giants to pay him his signing-on fee. The former Tshakuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) shot-stopper signed for Highlanders early last month together with Mandla Palma and Fabrice Mopina.

According to a source within the Highlanders camp ,the goalkeeper has left the club after the Mbabane giants failed to pay him his signing-on fee, as per the agreed contract before he signed on the dotted line. “Bongani Manavhela left the team after Highlanders failed to pay him his signing-on fee which the team had promised to give him,” alleged the source. The source revealed to the management that his wife was in a bad space after losing their child after  giving birth and had to be with him to comfort her.

The goalkeeper has been a notable absentee in Highlanders’ last two MTN Premier League in games against Madlenya FC and in last Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of defending champions Royal Leopard. The last time Manavhela was in the Highlanders match-day squad was mid last month, in a game that Inkunzi Emnyama played against Mahlanya-based side Seven Dreams, where Solly Luvhengo’s charges won 2-0, courtesy of goals from Banele ‘Stiga’ Ndzabandzaba and Kenneth Moloto.

Healing

Manavhela, when quizzed on the latest developments, he said he was still focusing on his family. “I’m still focusing on healing with my family for now honestly I do not have much strength to be thinking about all this. Hopefully we can talk about this some other time,” he said briefly. Reached for comment, Highlanders Public Relations Officer (PRO) Kenneth Dlamini said he was yet to learn about the latest developments. The source later revealed that the player was going to be back in the country on the Sunday game against Green Mamba once Highlanders settled his signing-on fee.

In an almost similar incident, in August last year South Africa’s Daily Sun reported that Manavhela unceremoniously left his team JDR Stars after just three weeks. He reportedly sent me a message asking to be released from his contract through WhatsApp. The 29-year-old requested to be released from his one-year-deal with immediate effect, which he signed to be extend for a year. Manavhela was Highlanders’ fifth player. Other imports are Kenneth Moloto,Tony ‘Ben 10’ Machacha,  Lesotho’s Tshwarelo Bereng and Fabrice Mopina.

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