Nqabayomzi Kwankwa

Nqabayomzi Kwankwa is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape. He has been serving as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa for the United Democratic Movement (UDM) since August 2013. He is the deputy president of the UDM and the party's chief whip. Quotes I think I've followed Kaizer Chiefs since the late 1980s … I was still very young. I grew up in a family of Chiefs supporters and I think that was because the club was doing very well at the time. They would leave everything on the pitch and so naturally, people will have love for a club that does well. I think the same thing happened to Manchester United and many other clubs around the world, they were followed by every Tom, Dick and Harry. And I liked their (Chiefs') style of play at the time, they were playing good football and were formidable. I supported the club from 1988-89 to date. I remember the likes of Ace Ntsoelengoe, who played football with flair, and Marks Maponyane. We had excellent strikers and even had goalkeepers like Gary Bailey, we had the Botende Esheles, the Shane Mc-Gregors and the Fani Madidas, Doctor Khumalo, Donald "Ace" Khuse and the "Shakes" Kungwanes of this world. So, we had great players playing for Kaizer Chiefs at the time. I liked a player like Neil Tovey because he mastered the basics of football and he did not play fancy football – he kept things simple. He mastered the basics and positional play. At the time I started supporting Chiefs, I was also a football player myself and I was very good at it. That's why I nearly turned professional in 1997 with SuperSport United – that's how good I was. But I was probably going to turn professional as a goalkeeper and not as an in-field player. Back to Chiefs… I think they started struggling around 1993, but they were still playing good football. But I think over the past 10 years, it's been a mess. I think the playing philosophy of the club is gone and (they've had) other challenges, like that of 'you buy one and get one for free'. I don't know whether someone we respect so much, uTata u "Chincha Guluva" (Kaizer Motaung), doesn't have the same ambition and the desire to turn Chiefs into a formidable team like before. Yes, the club is still run professionally, but I think it's not even a question of them not being able to compete with the likes of (Mamelodi) Sundowns in the market financially, I think it's just a matter of them not choosing the right players for the club. Some of the players are pretty average and some of the players are below average. The style of Chiefs back in the day would involve the team using wing players. We used to have very good wing players who were skilful and had pace. We had players in the middle of the park, like the Doctor Khumalos and others, who were very skilful and able to slow the game down. They would control the tempo of the game. Remember that we also used to play with the target man in front. Those target men used to master the basics. You see, when you have a striker up front, by the time the ball gets to him, he must know where you are and he must know where the goals are. External links Category:Living people Category:African National Congress politicians Category:Xhosa people