Stanley ‘Screamer’ Tshabalala described as loving, funny
The late Stanley ‘Screamer’ Tshabalala’s wife, on Thursday, described the moment she met her late husband.
Henriatta Tshabalala spoke via a video message at the funeral service for her husband at the Grace Bible Church in Pimville, Soweto.
Tshabalala succumbed to gunshot wounds that he sustained during a robbery at his home in Centurion in March this year.
The 75-year-old was Bafana Bafana’s first head coach when South Africa was readmitted to international soccer in 1992.
Henriatta described her husband as a man who loved her “loudly and proudly”.
"I do not think there is a man that would have loved me the way Stan loved me. He respected me, he protected me, most people would not have known me, and he loved it that way.
"I loved him; I could not even see it. I was just like a zombie. I miss our morning talks because he made me laugh. I think he took the wrong career. He was supposed to be a comedian.”
His daughter, Dineo Tshabalala, said her father was a person who was loved by people.
"And whenever I would say ‘yes dad’, he would say ‘no love, do not call me dad, just say Bra Stan, you are old now you cannot be calling me dad’.”
Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie also paid tribute to the late coach.
"Nobody can survive without happiness, and the soccer fraternity has brought us happiness during the dark days of apartheid. For that, I want to salute each and every person who has been involved in soccer; you have been the one constant during our darkest days.”
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