Today Marks 8 Years Since We Lost Gift “Voom-Voom” Leremi

Mpho Gift Leremi was a South African football midfielder who last played for Mamelodi Sundowns in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on 3 September 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa.Leremi’s death was by far the most shocking given the gruesome nature of his death, flung several metres from his vehicle while driving on Kliprivier Road towards Johannesburg in September 2007.

The former Orlando Pirates player lost control of his dark blue BMW 3-series, hit a shallow drainage ditch, climbed a nearby two metre embankment and was thrown from the front seat.Leremi was nearing the peak of his career, having just moved from Orlando Pirates to Sundowns for a fee of R800 000. He had it all and there was so much more expected of him.

Leremi was never far from the headlines – for the wrong reasons. Tales of drinking and partying too much did the rounds with some going as far as describing him as the James Dean of local soccer.We pay tribute to all the good skills he displayed inside the soccer field and the goals he scored.

Here are some of the soccer players we lost in car accidents, striker Lesley Manyathela, Richard Henyekane the  brother of Joseph Henyekane and the former Bafana Bafana assistant coach to the then  Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund.