Continue with what you’re doing

Let me wish Soccer Laduma well for making it this far since the inception of the paper. It has been a journey. To be honest, during my playing days, most of us wanted to see ourselves appearing in this newspaper and indeed we did. The journalists, you guys, the people who made it possible for that to happen, the entire team, the management, the staff, you are doing a great job. It’s easy to see that when you do an interview, before it goes to print, you take some time looking into the content, trying to polish it. Even some of us, IsiZulu siyasimosha (we speak broken IsiZulu), but when it comes out in the paper, the content is standard. I want to wish you all well and I wish God can give you another 25 years and another 25 years, and many years to come. Continue with what you’re doing. I think I retired in 2010 or 2011, but you guys still have my number. You go out of your way to make sure that you get those players that have played at the highest level to make sure that the upcoming generation can see where we’ve come from and where we’re going. Even with Siyagobhoza, you go behind the scenes and we know what’s happening before the clubs can even confirm it. When you did a Still In Touch with me recently, Kitso, my younger son, bought the paper and showed his friends, telling them, ‘Hey, did you see my father? He’s in Soccer Laduma!’ I’m sure there were a few more copies that were sold in my area during the past two weeks. You know, there is one suggestion that I want to share and maybe it’s something that you’ll look into in the future, and that is to check where we as former players are and to have an interview with our children, especially the boy-child. Ask them, ‘What does your father usually say to you when he sees you playing football? What stories does he tell you from his own playing days?’ We can then send you pictures, and their peers will obviously want to buy the paper, which could go a long way in increasing sales. It’s something to think about. Like, get David and his son, get Fabian (McCarthy) and his son, etc.”