Siviwe Chippa Mpengesi. I often wonder if there’s anything at all inside Mpengesi’s big skull.

It’s a pity that a person of his calibre and position seems to have no willingness nor capacity to use his riches, mostly earned from his security and construction businesses, to run one of his favourite pastimes — a football club — better than he currently does.

Mpengesi is the boss and owner of Chippa United FC, which campaigns in SA’s top-flight...