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SowetanLive reports that amid Siwelele FC’s poor start to the season, chairman Calvin Le John has axed CEO Stan Matthews and assistant coach Andre Arendse because the pair’s lives were being “threatened”.
He named Lerato Kholoanyane and Willem Jackson as their replacements. While Le John didn’t say who had threatened Matthews and Arendse, it is believed that Siwelele supporters weren’t happy with the duo’s presence in the team, with their poor start to the season not helping the situation. “They’ve been very great men to work with, but I cannot in good conscience keep them on board when their lives and their families’ lives are being threatened on a daily basis,” Le John explained in a three-minute video published on the club’s socials on Sunday.
Siwelele retained Matthews and Arendse, alongside almost everyone who was working for SuperSport United when they purchased Matsatsantsa’s Premiership status before the season started, as this was one of the conditions of the sale. Le John said Siwelele was also going to fire several players and sign new ones “in the coming two days”. The PSL transfer window closes on Monday.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sihle Ndebele at SowetanLive
- Read too, Siwelele axe CEO and assistant coach citing daily threats against them as a key reason, at The Citizen
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