Ex-Swallows star: I'd be earning R1.3 million a month
SOUTH AFRICA - 17 April 1993: Benjamin Reed from Kaizer Chiefs and Andries Mpondo from the Moroka Swallows in action.
In this edition of My First Pay Cheque, Moroka Swallows great Andries"Chaka Chaka" Mpondo tells KickOff he would be earning millions if he were still playing today. Mpondo remains one of the greatest footballers of his generation, and starred in a Dube Birds side that also boasted the likes of Thomas “Who’s Fooling Who” Hlongwane, Ace Mnini and Aaron “Roadblock” Makhathini, to name a few."I had signed with Moroka Swallows in 1984. They spotted me at our school in Meadowlands. I was still at school those days; I was at the age of 19 or 20.""My first pay cheque in football was R800. That was at our beloved Moroka Swallows.
"You were only allowed to spend it the following day and buy some food for the family, and you would spoil yourself with the rest.""I bought myself a Brentwood, a brown one. Those days Brentwood was an in-thing. Those days it cost R399. I paid it in cash. "Remember those days we were always in our Swallows tracksuits, we only wore our Brentwoods on our weekend offs.Did it last you the whole month?"I'm happy with what I used to earn those days; I can't complain. Remember, life was still cheap those days.""I'd be worth R1.3 million a month. Maybe I'd be a millionaire today. I'd be playing maybe at Sundowns...
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