Unexpected twist to search for Soweto houses painted in Chiefs' and Pirates' colours
You find one side of the joined houses still bedecked in the colours of the Buccaneers, the black and white, the fearsome skull and crossbones, the slogans, war cries and nicknames: “Amabhakabhaka”, “Sea Robbers”, “Ezimnyama Ngenkani” . But something is amiss. The gold and black of the “Chiefs house” has been painted white. Did the Chiefs fan move?From the Pirates house emerges Johanna Marokane, 76. “It was Pirates people,” she says of those who painted her house that way.
The anonymous neighbour later confirms a one-off payment was made. He’s not a Chiefs fan, he confesses, but that’s not why he repainted the house white again. That was done by his sister, who also lives there and is a Chiefs fan. There was a family disagreement. Soweto resident Johanna “Joyce” Marokane explains how her house in the shadow of Orlando Stadium on Nkungu Street, Mzimhlope, Orlando West, came to be painted in the colours of the team she supports, Orlando Pirates. Her neighbour’s conjoined house was painted in Kaizer Chiefs colours, but has since been repainted white again by its occupants.
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