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man,” says Zuma. “Play the man and you
can hurt yourself or the other person in the
process.”
“And you are unlikely to score a goal
when you’re playing the man.”
Zuma left the municipality last year to
take up the position of marketing and
communications manager at Maritzburg
United Football Club in March. I asked him
if his younger son’s blossoming success
as a cricketer had anything to do with his
move into sport. Lwandiswa Zuma, who
is deputy head boy at Maritzburg College,
was recently selected as one of just three
KZN boys for the SA U19 cricket team to
travel to England.
“Lwandiswa was actually part of the
U13 and U15 Maritzburg United football
development team before his love for
cricket developed,” Zuma laughs, “but no,
after nine years at the municipality it was
time for change.”
“I have gone back to Maritzburg United
to finish what I started.”
Zuma explains that while at the
municipality, he did some part-time work
in public relations for the football club. He
had to give it up as he couldn’t do both
jobs.
“I have to give 100% to what I do,” he
explains.
He says that with the municipality now
out of administration and stabilised, it was
time to move on.
“The current leadership and management
under Mayor Chris Ndlela and Municipal
Manager Mxolisi Nkosi are doing a great
job to steady that ship. They work without
fear or favour,” says Zuma.
“I do the things that I love and love the
things that I do. That’s how I live my life.”
He says that the Maritzburg United
position will be his “last place of
employment” He plans to be wholly self.
employed in the future. He and his wife,
Lindiwe, are building a storage business in
Edendale, a complex of 100 garage-sized
units to rent out to people needing space
to keep all manner of property safe.
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