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|September 25, 2025
SIPHO MNGOMEZULU
Sipho, it's great to have you with us after such a long absence from football. You had quite a long professional career which lasted more than 15 years. Tell us about your early days at Wits University as it was called back then.
Those were interesting times in my career, ha, ha, ha. I remember one season when we had Thando Mngomeni, and that guy would disappear at most month-ends. He would come to training, practise, and then after training he wouldn't go home. He would just go to wherever he was having fun and then come back to training the following day. So, one day, after we were paid our signing-on fees, he didn't go home for about a week or so, ha, ha, ha. Then his wife showed up at training looking for him, ha, ha, ha.
His wife didn't know where he was, ha, ha, ha.
Thando left training and didn't go back home. His wife came to training looking for him, and when we called him, he told us, "I'm still eating my money and I don't want to be disturbed," ha, ha, ha.
Really? Ha, ha, ha.
This story is from the September 25, 2025 edition of Soccer Laduma.
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