Kaizer Chiefs management, staff and players would like to pass on their condolences to Ntokozo Sikhakhane and his family on the sad passing away of his father Besie Blose. Besie who worked in a fishery in Durban had been battling with cancer for the past four years finally succumbed to the disease late Friday morning.

Ntokozo who was to begin full training on Friday afternoon after missing the past couple of games with a hamstring injury was informed of his fathers untimely passing away at lunchtime on Friday. A tearful Ntokozo said “my father has always been a light that has guided me over many tough obstacles in my life as a soccer player, he has given me a lot of advice down the years which has kept me on the straight and narrow I will first lay him to rest and then think of life without him”.

The 22-year-old midfielder will fly down to Durban on Friday evening to join his family for the funeral preparations, which will take place at the family home in the Durban suburb of Newlands. The family is still to decide as to when the burial will take place.