MANY Mzansi soccer supporters know Barney Kujane as a cool-headed and accomplished football administrator whose contribution to the "beautiful game" behind the scenes has been more than outstanding.

MANY Mzansi soccer supporters know Barney Kujane as a cool-headed and accomplished football administrator whose contribution to the "beautiful game" behind the scenes has been more than outstanding.

Some would even venture to suggest that Kujane, whose association with football goes back to antiquity, is a team manager par excellence. Here is a man who, in the midst of the chaos in motion that is the South African Football Association (Safa), is professionalism personified; a man who goes about his job in a measured, flawless and meticulous fashion.

Appointed acting Bafana Bafana team manager last August following the departure of Gugu Marawa, Kujane has travelled across the continent, clearing the off-the-field obstacles ahead of the national team's crucial away encounters in the squad's quest to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea next year.

Kujane is doing a darn good job, Guluva thinks; and he knows he is not alone.

"No way." abruptly exclaimed Bafana Bafana head coach Pitso Mosimane when he was asked by Business Day sports editor Mninawa Ntloko about the inspection of facilities in Niamey, Niger - Bafana's next port of call in their journey to the Afcon qualification.

"I am going to inspect those facilities and pitch myself. That game is absolutely crucial. That is one match I cannot afford to take for granted," he bellowed.

Is Mosimane trying to tell us something we don't know?

Puma on the way out?

Still on Safa and its shenanigans, though the association has signed a seven-year deal with Puma for the supply of the Bafana Bafana kit the international sports merchandise company's relationship with the organisation seems to be on the rocks even before it has taken off.

The organised chaos seen at the launch of the Bafana Bafana kit earlier this week will later be found to be its undoing.

Guluva would not be surprised if Puma were to be shown the door so early on in the marriage.

After all, phuma in isiZulu means: "Get out!"

Mafika leaves, Tsotsi arrives

The politically connected Mafika Mkwanazi, whose first name means "the one who has arrived" in isiZulu, thought he had really arrived when he was hastily appointed by Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba as Transnet Group chairman, one of the top posts in the country.

But Mafika had barely arrived - he was appointed to the position only in December last year - than he was reportedly "invited" to join Eskom, Mzansi's electricity utility, as an ordinary board member.

Guess who he will serve under at Eskom? It is someone called Zola Tsotsi!

Guluva initially thought Gigaba and his advisers were talking about a tsotsi from Zola - one of Soweto's townships notorious for its breathtaking turnaround time in churning out tsotsis in the bad old 1980s - when Zola Tsotsi was mentioned as a possible successor to current chairman Mpho Makwana.

However, Guluva, a tsotsi of sorts himself, was relieved to learn later that the Zola Tsotsi who would be keeping our lights on every night was in fact soon-to-be former chairman of Lesotho Electricity Authority.

E-mail Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com.