Football teams and community members, dressed in sportswear, will pay tribute to the three local soccer players who lost their lives in a fatal accident on the Barrage Road on Saturday, at a memorial service starting at 16:00 today (February 12)  at the Master Nakedi Sport Centre in Tumahole.

Mpheu Katleho Vincent (Kando) Mofokeng and Tsholofelo (Tsenyana 10) Setsoamong died at the scene when the vehicle they were travelling in with four other passengers overturned. The injured passengers were transported to nearby hospitals.

The critically injured Sibusiso (Makhado) Mopedi, however, succumbed to injuries sustained in the accident on Monday morning. Both Tsholofelo and Sibusiso played for the Elite Athletics Football Club.

Tsholofelo played for African Warriors FC from QwaQwa that is playing in the ABC Motsepe Leauge before joining Elite Athletics FC that is playing in the Hollywoodbets Regenioal League. Sibusiso was playing in the SAFA Ngwathe Promotional League team of Elite Athletics Sports Academy.

Katleho played for the Royal Evans Football Club based in Tumahole, and was playing in the Hollywood Regional League.
Tragically, Katleho’s mom, the late Agnes (Mpe) Mofokeng, a dedicated member of the Ngwathe Fire and Rescue Service, also died in a car accident on the R59 barely seven months before Saturday’s tragedy that happened around 06:00.

The Elite Football Club on Tuesday confrimed that another Club player is still in hospital.

The funeral services of the deceased will be on February 14. Sibusiso’s funeral will be at his home, in Sasolburg 07:00-10:00, while Tsholofelo’s funeral will be at AFM Church, Tumahole. Katleho’s service is at Barnard Molokoane 08:00-10:00.

* Hours after the fatal accident on the Barrage Road, a seven-seater Toyota Avanza transporting ten adult men overturned on the R34, approximately 25 km outside Kroonstad at about 19:00. Five people died at the scene, while five were critically injured. It was confirmed on Tuesday that one of the critically injured had passed away.