Following an emergency meeting held between club management and the coach, Ted Dumitru, at Naturena on Monday, 01 March 2004, Kaizer Chiefs has suspended Jabu Pule indefinitely with immediate effect, without pay until he shows himself up and face the club’s Disciplinary Committee.

The club got a hint about Pule’s whereabouts on Sunday evening, 29 February 2004 after the Amakhosi’s 3-1 drubbing of Sundowns in the Last 32 stage of the ABSA Cup at the ODI stadium. A member of his family approached one of the club’s officials and together they pleaded with Pule to go home and report for duty the next day but those pleas fell on deaf ears as Pule sped off with old time friend and former teammate Skappie Malatsi who is now playing for Zulu Royals.

This follows Pule’s disappearance and failure to report for training and camp on Saturday, 28 February 2004 and now the Naturena based club feels ‘enough is enough’’ and Pule’s awol this time around is indicative of the fact that one can take a horse to the river but one cannot force it to drink.

All said and done, it’s business as usual at the Chiefs Village as players reconvened on Monday afternoon to begin preparations for a crucial Castle Premiership encounter with Black Leopards on Saturday, 06 March 2004 at the Soccer City Stadium, but Jabu Pule, who still has two years on his contract with the club, is still at large!