‘The policies will not pay if I kill myself’ – Ex-Sundowns star

Former Mamelodi Sundowns star Lerato Chabangu has lived through the worst experience avoided by all: riches to rags.

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LERATO CHABANGU STRUGGLING

After living large as a Sundowns and Bafana Bafana player, the Tembisa-born star retired into poverty.

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Facing the depths of financial depression, Chabangu considered suicide.

“I did one day [thought about] killing myself but I was like ‘That is not the [right] thing’,” Chabangu said on PrimeSportsWithMahlatsi.

“The policies will not pay if I kill myself, so how are they going to bury me if I kill myself? When you have problems, you must share them with someone in the family.

“There are a lot of things that I lost. I bought my mom a house and now it is lost. I lost everything, I don’t even have soccer boots or clothes (kits) that will remind me of my playing days.

” I only have trophies. People can judge me, I don’t have any income but I still hustle,” the former Sundowns hero added.

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LEBOHANG MOKOENA ON SUNDOWNS SALARY AFTER ORLANDO PIRATES

Staying with Sundowns, Lebohang Mokoena has confirmed that Sundowns paid better than Pirates.

After making his name as a teenager promoted from the Pirates academy, Mokoena, known as “Cheeseboy,” soon needed more than the R28 000-R30 000 salary he was earning.

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“At Pirates, as a development player, you wouldn’t earn as a player that was signed from another team. I earned R6500 when I was promoted to the first team,” Mokoena said on TK Solutions TV – READ THE FULL STORY HERE.