Former Orlando Pirates Captain Lucky Lekgwathi’s Grootman Restaurant Destroyed During Lootings
Former Orlando Pirates Captain Lucky Lekgwathi’s Grootman Restaurant Destroyed During Lootings. Former Orlando Pirates Captain Lucky Lekgwathi’s Grootman restaurant located in Kliptown, Eldorado Park was one of the businesses that were destroyed by looters. Lekgwathi launched his restaurant earlier this year. After a successful career as a footballer Lekgwathi was venturing into being a businessman. With his restaurant being already affected by the lockdown restrictions, this looting will damage it even further and it might take a while before the restaurant can get back on its feet.
With the lockdown restrictions already negatively affecting the restaurant industry, these lootings have just made things worse as the businesses were barely surviving due to the lack of sales, now these businesses are likely to close down due to the destroyed infrastructure and the looted stock.
Lucky Lekgwathi is a South African retired footballer and businessman. He played for South Africa at the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, at which South Africa were guests. He is arguably Orlando Pirates’ most successful captain, having captained them to six trophies in 2 seasons (2010/10 & 2011/12) under Dutch legend, Ruud Krol, making Pirates the only Double Treble Champions since the formation of the PSL. He was very instrumental in ending Orlando Pirates’ 8 year league drought, scoring crucial goals in the process, most notably a winner against Supersport United.
Many people call him ‘Captain my Captain’, because the club skipper had a hugely impressive 2010/11 and 2011/12 season, as he played a significant role in helping Orlando Pirates dominate South African Football for two consecutive seasons. The veteran defender became the clubs’ darling and an inspirational leader to the younger players in the squad. According to Kick Off Magazine, the 44-year-old former defender has now taken his success into business, having already started his own clothing label called ‘Fantastic 14’, in honour of his past jersey number.
