“My loan move to Ajax Cape Town was a career mistake” – Zwane

Former Mamelodi Sundowns defender Siyanda Zwane has admitted that he made a mistake by leaving the Brazilians at the height of his career.

Zwane joined Masandawana in July 2014 from Golden Arrows, spending four seasons at The Stylish Guys with a loan spell at Ajax Cape Town before permanently joining Bidvest Wits in 2019 on a fee transfer. The 39-year-old who is now retired from active football, managed to play over 50 games for Sundowns and won two league titles and the CAF Champions League title.

Zwane has revealed that he feels like he made the wrong decision to leave Sundowns to join Ajax Cape Town on loan.

“It was written in the stars that Siyanda Zwane would go through this and that until he reached this phase in life [retiring from football]. However, I would have wished to stay longer at Mamelodi Sundowns,” Zwane told Metro FM.

“I stayed there for two and a half years. The other part of the season, I went on loan to Ajax Cape Town. Mushin [Ertugrul] called me and said, ‘I can see you’re not playing. I’m going to Ajax; would you mind joining me there’?

“The regret came when I thought that, based on the way I had performed at Ajax, Sundowns would call me back. So, when they didn’t call me back, that’s when the regret kicked in that maybe it was a wrong move to leave Sundowns to join Ajax on loan.

“Normally, when a player goes on loan, their contract is frozen. However, when I went to Ajax, I thought I would return to Sundowns and finish my contract. But they said they didn’t freeze my contract; therefore, my contract with them is over. I had to find a team after that.”