You gotta love Alois Bunjira, the former Bidvest Wits and Mamelodi Sundowns sharpshooter, who also represented his country Zimbabwe on the international stage. Readers will remember some of the stories he has shared on this page before, explaining in great and fascinating detail about how, as a youngster, he passed up the opportunity of signing for Orlando Pirates, choosing instead to go back home in fear of falling victim to the crime and grime of Jozi. Then, more recently, he was back at it, opening up on the intricate details of how he left Mamelodi Sundowns on the last day of a transfer window to link up with Bidvest Wits. He’s back! What does the former hard-running striker have for our readers this time around? Read on, and enjoy this first of two instalments.
Alois, you are back on our pages for the umpteenth time! It’s not that we are not loving it, the stories you’ve shared with us recently left us gasping for it. The one about how you ran away from Orlando Pirates back to Zimbabwe, after being scared out of your wits by the criminality in downtown Johannesburg, was legendary. Then there was the one about how you joined Bidvest Wits from Mamelodi Sundowns, in a swap deal with Manqoba Ngwenya, one which happened in the last 10 minutes of that transfer window.
It’s always an honour speaking to you guys. Ha, ha, ha, eish, if they failed to locate Manqoba that day, I’m telling you, I was gonna be stuck! I am sure your readers were amazed at that story, how he joined Sundowns.
