A group of staff members, which included communications manager Thebe Mohatle and the Chairman’s personal assistant Sophia Nkosi, hid in his office and surprised him as he entered his office on Monday morning.

Later on Monday it was the turn of the players to surprise him, thinking that they had forgotten his special day the Chiefs boss was on his way home when he was told that he had to attend to an urgent matter.

To his utter bewilderment and surprise as he walked into the dining room, he was met by a chorus of players belting out their own home made rendition of Happy Birthday.

Once the cheers and whistles had subside the Chairman made a short speech where in he said: “I am not a self made person and it is on days like this that I remember all the people who made me the person that I am today.

“First of all there were my parents, thereafter siblings and down the years it has been all the people who have passed through the doors at Kaizer Chiefs, like all of the people present today who have made me and become a part of my extended family”.

The fifth child of Ceyland and Sophie Motaung’s ten children Kaizer Motaung was born on the 16th October 1944 in Orlando East in Soweto, the place where he began playing his football as a young boy.

Kaizer Chiefs Football Club and all its players, staff and supporters would once again like to wish Kaizer Motaung a very happy 62nd birthday.