SA’s Maja for 20% stake at ‘Birds’

He, interestingly, is a close friend to Highlanders Managing Director (MD) Chief Ally Kgomongwe, who is understood to have arranged a meeting between him and Swallows who were led by their General Manager (GM) Sandile ‘Beyond 2000’ Zwane and Lawyer Welile Mabuza among others management officials. When Maja confirmed his purported stake at Swallows, he was also with Kgomongwe in Pretoria and they both joked about the capital city derby being more exciting this time around as they were home boys.

“We’ll put that friendship aside when the derby comes and he’s not going to beat me,” Kgomongwe lightly said.

Meanwhile, Maja was expected to yesterday to sign the contract that would also detail what was expected of him and the duration of his commitment.

“Only the office of the President Archbishop Bheki Lukhele can comment or give us direction on those matters otherwise everything we’re planning is around him. He is the one handling such matters and we will wait for his directive if there’s anything,” Zwane responded when the 20 per cent and contract signing issues were put to him.

He did not deny nor confirm Maja’s stake and his presence in the country yesterday for the contract signing. There was no immediate comment from Lukhele but wondered who was leaking the news

CONTRACTS EXPERT’S POINT OF VIEW:

(Anonymous)

“It must matter before signing the contract what the 20 per cent means or what it is for because shareholding means in loss or profit, payments and any financial transaction, he contributes 20 per cent. If it’s about the money it must also be clear that he must invest 20 per cent of what Lukhele has already spent in the club.”

to the author. Efforts to get one from his brother and Swallows Governor, Andreas Lukhele also proved futile, as his phone rang unanswered. The team’s president had sanctioned that the management finds someone, a co-director to work with him and it is understood there were two others who could also be given shares but contracts were being arranged.

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Meanwhile, Maja is only back in SA after spending most of his life in Canada with his family, where they are said to run a few businesses. He is said to have also owned a team in the smaller divisions in SA. Locating Maja online, in an effort to learn more about him proved futile. On his return, he is said to have also made some worthy investments in SA. However, the nature of his businesses is yet to be established. Maja joins Swallows after Lukhele asked the team to get him a co-director who would run the team and be handson especially because he (Lukhele) was not always present due to his constant travelling.