adminTwenty-six-year-old Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane who is a doctor of philosophy law student responded to supporters’ cries on social network site, Facebook, who felt it was not good for the coach to travel using public transport to matches and training sessions.
The gesture was welcomed by the club who at the time said they would quickly do the paperwork so that there is some form of contractual agreements between the two parties.
However, Mabalane told Chronicle Sport that up to now nothing had happened.
“I wanted to send the car next week but they are saying they need to do some paperwork first but as you know when things go slow like this ezinye ziyavuka. My condition is that they will use the car for three years and if it’s in proper condition after that they can sell it and buy something for junior teams.
But it will be registered in my mother’s name so that it is safeguarded against being attached to recover what the club might be owing its creditors,” he said.
Mabalane said Highlanders needed to arrange all the logistics of fetching the car from Namibia when it is delivered.
Efforts to get a comment from Highlanders secretary Andrew Tapela were fruitless as his phone was continuously on hold for the better part of the day and he did not respond to text messages.
“All I want is for the club to guarantee that the car will be well looked after.
“Highlanders is a big institution and as such we cannot allow a situation whereby a coach of such a big club walks to work when his players are driving,” said Mabalane when he offered the vehicle.
The Highlanders’ political landscape always changes when members are about to gather for either the annual general meeting or their mid-year meeting which is due early next month as per their constitution.
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