Bafana Bafana and TS Galaxy defender Khulumani Ndamane has opened up on his journey to professional football and how he ended up joining TS Galaxy from Kaizer Chiefs on a free transfer.
Ndamane, 21, has quickly emerged into one of the brightest defensive prospects in the country, since joining Galaxy in 2024, after starring in the Chiefs U19 and reserve team in the DStv Diski Challenge.
However, he didn’t make it to the senior squad, and Galaxy quickly snapped him up as the replacement for then club captain, Given Msimango – who ironically left to join the Soweto giants.
Ndamane has become a mainstay in the Rockets defence and has been capped three times in the senior national team under Hugo Broos, which epitomises his meteoric rise from rural Kwa-Zulu Natal.
“I’m from KZN from a rural area called Sahlumbe. So my journey, I went to trial at Chiefs I think it was in 2023 I trialled there and they took me [and signed me],” Ndamane explained on his journey to professional football.
“I played in the U19 side and DDC team and from DDC I came here at TS Galaxy. I didn’t do anything wrong [at Chiefs]. My story is different [to Puso Dithejane] I didn’t do anything wrong and nothing bad happened.
“I think as a player I wanted to grow in football, so playing for the DDC side there I realised that I can do more. Because I didn’t play for the first team didn’t mean I wasn’t good so I was able to come and try my luck here at TS Galaxy.”
Ndamane has strongly been linked with a move to Mamelodi Sundowns, where he is expected to sign at the end of the current season.
