South Africans are not patient – Komphela

Outgoing Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela seems to believe that he needed more time at Amakhosi.


Komphela left Chiefs after the fan violence at the Moses Mabhida Stadium after Free State Stars beat Amakhosi 2-0 over the weekend.

“South Africans are not a patient nation, the whole world is in a culture of everything is instant … instant gratification that’s why people don’t want to go to school. I am going to spend 12 years, then I have to do another three, why go to school when I can get a tender and become rich,” Komphela told the media.

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“There is no quality in that person, the best quality is in the time and the investment you make in knowledge, the quality of success is in the principles where you root in the pillars.

“The bamboo tree, five years this tree the seed is under ground, but in eight months as soon as it breaks ground it grows 80 mitres. God has a vision, even yourself, you are not born a man with teeth and everything, when you go through the principles of nature it all about patience.”

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