AmaZulu to face Fifa over unpaid wages

The National First Division side released the player after making one appearance in the 2014/15 season.

South African Football Players Union (Safpu) Secretary General Thulaganyo Gaoshubelwe says they plan to present the case to Fifa later this month demanding Usuthu play around R2 million to the player.

“We’ll be in Zurich and we’ve got the case before CAS from the 29th to the 31st of May defending the case between AmaZulu and one player called Pinehas,” Gaoshubelwe tells KickOff.com.

“They fired him but the gist of the whole thing is about the Dispute Resolution Chamber of the South Africa is not compliant.

“We are claiming from them in the region of R2-million that this player is owed and we believe we’ll go through and win this case.

“AmaZulu unfortunately, when they received the ruling from Fifa after we’d won, only then they wanted negotiate with us but we said, ‘look, we cannot choose as to when you want to talk and let us sit down’.

“When they saw the outcome they only said ‘can we refuse and give half of the amount?’ So these are the issues we are currently dealing with.”