Shocking Amajita coach salary details emerge
Former SAFA technical director Walter Steenbok has revealed the shocking salary details of Amajita head coach Raymond Mdaka, the very individual who steered the SA Under-20 team to their recent AFCON triumph.
Amajita beat Morocco 1-0 in the CAF 2025 U-20 AFCON final last weekend with Mdaka at the wheel. The showdown took place at the 30 June Stadium in Cairo, Egypt.
This was Amajita’s first AFCON triumph, clinching the trophy after coming agonisingly close against the same final opponent 24 years ago.
Mdaka took over the coaching reins at Amajita in March 2024. Under the tutelage of the former Marumo Gallants mentor, the SA U-20 team also won the 2024 COSAFA Cup Championship in October last year.
Amajita beat Zambia 2-0 to be crowned the 2024 COSAFA Cup Championship winners. In addition, the Mdaka-coached team won the COSAFA tournament without conceding a single goal, and found the back of the net 16 times.
WHAT THE EX-SAFA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR SAID ABOUT AMAJITA COACH’S SALARY
Steenbok stated that SA organisations fail to recognise “black excellence,” using his salary and the Amajita coach’s earnings as a reference to support his point.
He disclosed that his SAFA salary was so low it was “on par with Bafana Bafana head coach Hugo Broos’s rental expenses.”
Steenbok went on to reveal that Amajita coach, Mdaka, is not earning more than R25,000, despite what he has achieved with the SA U-20.
“The respect for black professionals in our South African organisations is a big problem. My salary was cumulative to the rent paid for the head coach, Hugo Broos,” Steenbok told Metro FM.
“On the FIFA organogram, the TD and the coach are on the same level, even with the same responsibilities. I want to go further, coach Mdaka does not earn more than R25,000 and is on a one-year contract.
“We fought for two years to get coach Raymond the contract. You can call the coach and ask him.”
Steenbok added: “So, what I’m trying to put up here is that the lack of respect for black professionals and the lack of respect for our own self, it’s unbelievable.
“We don’t respect black excellence. We don’t respect black professionals. I can give you evidence I have in abundance that I keep all the time.”
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