Kaizer Chiefs directors and siblings, Kaizer Motaung Jr. and Jessica Motaung spoke about upholding their father's legacy and steering Amakhosi into a new direction.
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There are a number of family-run PSL clubs ranging from Lamontville Golden Arrows, AmaZulu FC to Royal AM in KwaZulu Natal to Mamelodi Sundowns and TS Galaxy.
Amakhosi are well known for being one of world football's most famous family-run clubs, and one could argue they set the example for other South African teams.
Kaizer Chiefs Marketing Commercial Director Jessica Motaung the club's Sporting Director Kaizer Motaung Jr sat down for an extensive chat with Robert Marawa on his 94.7 show and touched on what it's like to run a family-owned club in the PSL.
"A lot of the South African football clubs are family businesses, people forget that. I think a lot of South African business are built on families who have come in and made a difference in the economy in other sectors.
"It's such a privilege when you are a family and able to work together. And we are fortunate in the fact that we can work together, that's important. You can see it in the work we're doing with Kaizer [Jr] and we as the next generation [of Chiefs leaders] felt that it's important that all of us play a role," shared Jessica Motaung, adding that her family is lucky to have each other's backs:
"The chairman might have started it on his own, yes he had other siblings who worked with him but he was championing it, a lot on his own. We are fortunate [as Motaung siblings] to have each other and it's a unified approach that's going to allow us to achieve and succeed.
"You see all of us in our respective roles, we are very complementary to what is happening and certainly, we have had to sit down and say, 'if we really band together and work, we are going to achieve a lot more,' and I think that's been great for us to do and we're exited with the way forward," concluded Chiefs Marketing Director.
Kaizer Motaung Jr. believes in holding himself and his relatives at the club accountable:
"Everyone needs to be accountable. It's not about being a family business and having family members in certain roles. As people in those roles, we need to put our hands up.
"This is a very big institution, it's not about family only, when we use the word family, it includes all of our stakeholders, our supporters, board members. This institution is supported by millions of people globally, so for us to sit down and to ever think there's a sense of entitlement or that we're only ones who have an idea of the direction the club has to take, that would be false.
"We put our hands up, take responsibility and understand the responsibility at hand. But we are here to serve and do the best that we can. If results are not coming, if they not coming, then they're not, it boils down to that," added Kaizer Jr.
Watch the Motaung siblings discuss this topic with Marawa from minute 13:
