Ngcongca, 33, was involved in a car crash on the N2 in KwaZulu-Natal and died at the scene, Phakaaathi has learnt.
“Ja, it’s true,” said an AmaZulu official who asked not to be named as the club are yet to make an official announcement. “I got a call in the morning from someone who was at the scene saying they found my number in his (Anele) phone and he has been in an accident and passed on. It is really sad and I am still in shock. I spoke to him yesterday because we had an event we were supposed to go to together but he changed his mind. He said he’d meet me today but now I heard this,” he said, close to tears.
iReport SA News has also come across a WhatsApp audio message from someone who appears to be with the emergency services who attended the scene which confirms Ngcongca’s death.
“I attended to a car accident. When I got to the scene I noticed that I know the guy who had died. He was a soccer player with Mamelodi Sundowns and was recently said be joining AmaZulu. His name is Anele Ngcongca. He was flung out of the car and died on the scene. The woman he was with has been rushed to hospital in a critical condition,” says the message.
iReport SA News could not identify the message was from.