Senzo death
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From R15 to owning a R1.5 billion business empire: The story of Senzo Tsabedze
Written by Gilmore Tee
After completing secondary school, Senzo Tsabedze connived with his friend to run away from Mpumalanga to Nelspruit, now Mbombela in search of greener pastures.
Having been born from a poor background, being the fourth born of a family of eight and with his father as the sole breadwinner who worked at the Msauli Asbestos Mine, Senzo never saw himself having any better life in Mpumalanga.
As he progressed from his primary school at Sithuthukile to Ekulindeni Secondary School, the thought of ending up working in the surrounding mines was something that kept creating a clear possibility in his mind, something he never wanted to do for the rest of his life.
''I was afraid to go underground'', he said with an wry smile, adding that leaving his home turned out to be the best decision he had ever made in his life.
The successful businessman was born in Mshayazafe village under the Albert Luthuli Local Municipality.
He narrates how he arrived in Nelspruit, knocking door to d
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A JOKER and a comedian. That is how Senzo Meyiwa’s colleague, friend and business partner Eugene Sikhumbuzo will remember the Bafana Bafana goalkeeper.
Sikhumbuzo co-owned the Jamarie Sports Academy in Umlazi with Meyiwa, an organisation that was very close to the Orlando Pirates star’s heart right up until the day he died. Jamarie was previously named London Cosmos, the club where it all began for Meyiwa before his move to Pirates in his early teens.
“I was talking to him [Meyiwa] just last week,” Sikhumbuzo told The Witness yesterday. “We were discussing a tour for our U19s to Johannesburg, where they would play against Pirates, Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and Wits U19s.”
Those talks included a potential name change to the Jamarie and Meyiwa Sports Academy, what would now be an appropriate tribute.
Amid his thriving international and club career, Meyiwa had relinquished the hands-on running of Jamarie to Sikhumbuzo, though his passion for youth development in the town of his birth never wavered.
“He was obviously very busy,
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Senzo Meyiwa
South African footballer (1984–2014)
Senzo Robert Meyiwa (24 January 1984 – 26 October 2014) was a South African professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for and captained both Orlando Pirates in the Premier Soccer League,[4] and the South Africa national team.
He was shot and killed in a home invasion on 26 October 2014.
Club career
Orlando Pirates
Beginnings (2005-2012)
Meyiwa was a goalkeeper of Orlando Pirates from 2005 as the backup goalkeeper to Francis Chansa until 2008. The arrival of new coach Milutin Sredojević, the Pirates gave Meyiwa his debut against AmaZulu F.C. on 8 November 2006, in a match which the Pirates won 2-1.[5] In 2008, after the departure of Francis Chansa to Engen Santos, Pirates brought Moeneeb Josephs from Wits University in 2008 and Meyiwa again had to be the backup goalkeeper.
Becoming a starter (2012-2014)
In the 2012 season, interim coach Augusto Palacios gave Meyiwa some games, and the new coach of Pirates Roger De Sa also gave Meyiwa games due to Josephs' s
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