Kabelo Dlamini: The Pirates Soccer Winger, His Club, Caps and Net Worth

Kabelo Dlamini is a South African attacking midfielder and right winger, born on 16 May 1996 in Daveyton, who joined Orlando Pirates from Bloemfontein Celtic in 2019. He was called up for the South Africa B side at the 2025 COSAFA Cup and scored against Zimbabwe. Below you will find his road from the East Rand to Soweto, the cup finals Pirates won during his spell, his winter in Bloemfontein with the national B team and a straight answer to the money question so many Mzansi fans type into a search bar.

Think of a Pirates squad the way a family thinks of the spare key on the kitchen hook. Nobody talks about it much, yet on the day the main key goes missing it opens every door, and Dlamini has spent much of his Soweto career being exactly that sort of player. The words here carry the dated, permanent facts about him, while his season minutes, goals and the Pirates log position sit in the modules above and update after every match.

Who Is Kabelo Dlamini?

Kabelo Dlamini is a Daveyton born attacking player who has spent the longest stretch of his professional career at Orlando Pirates, the Soweto club he joined in 2019. He plays mainly as an attacking midfielder or on the right wing, and some records simply list him as a forward, which tells you how freely he moves across the front line. Before Soweto came two seasons in the Free State with Bloemfontein Celtic, and before that an academy education on the East Rand.

So, why do Bucs supporters follow a player like him so closely? In my opinion it is because Pirates rotate across the Premiership, the MTN8, the Nedbank Cup and continental competition in the seasons they qualify, and Dlamini is one of the men who turns rotation into results. He belongs among the African soccer players whose value shows most clearly in cup weeks, and his April 2025 semi final winner is the best proof of that.

The Road From Daveyton: Street Soccer, Stars of Africa and Siwelele

Kabelo Dlamini's road began on the streets of Daveyton, on the East Rand of Gauteng, where he was reportedly spotted playing street soccer. That led to about three years at the Stars of Africa academy, a spell that gave a township talent the structure and coaching a professional career needs. It is a familiar Mzansi story, the dusty pitch first and the academy second, and perhaps it explains the improvisation that still shows when he receives the ball between the lines.

His senior breakthrough came at Bloemfontein Celtic, where he spent 2017 to 2019 and made 39 league appearances with 6 goals.

In 2019 he moved to Orlando Pirates, where he has worn the number 18 shirt. No fee for the move has been made public, so none is given here. His appearances and goals for the Buccaneers are carried in the player module.

Why do the numbers on different stats websites not match? Totals can differ when they cover different competitions or dates. For Dlamini's Pirates record, check the competition label and reporting date in the player module.

What Has Dlamini Won With the Bucs?

Reports list Kabelo Dlamini in the 2023 MTN8 winning squad; the records module carries his involvement in the other finals Pirates won during his spell. Pirates won the 2023 Nedbank Cup 2 to 1 against Sekhukhune United at Loftus Versfeld thanks to a late Terrence Dzvukamanja goal, and the 2023 MTN8 1 to 0 against AmaZulu, where reports listed Dlamini among the players lifting that cup for a second time.

The run carried on in 2024. Pirates beat Mamelodi Sundowns 2 to 1 in the Nedbank Cup final at Mbombela Stadium on 1 June 2024, becoming the first side to retain the trophy since SuperSport United in 2017, and they beat Stellenbosch FC 3 to 1 at Moses Mabhida Stadium in October 2024 for a third MTN8 title in a row. For Dlamini's involvement in those finals and the 2023 Nedbank Cup final, consult the line ups in the records module.

What Does Kabelo Dlamini Do on the Pitch?

Kabelo Dlamini is an attacking midfielder who is just as comfortable on the right wing, and his forward listing in some records reflects how often he pushes up. He can start wide, drift inside into the space behind a striker, or play close to the number nine as a second striker when Pirates want another body in the box. For a coach balancing league, cup and continental fixtures, that range is the reason a squad player stays in the plans for years.

In April 2025, his first half goal beat Marumo Gallants in the Nedbank Cup semi final. That strike sent Pirates to a third Nedbank Cup final in a row, after the wins over Sekhukhune United in 2023 and Mamelodi Sundowns in 2024.

In July 2024 his name travelled further than Soweto. Former Pirates defender Ronnie Zondi said Dlamini could play in Spain and called him underrated, at a time when reports spoke of interest from two unnamed Spanish clubs. That interest was never confirmed, and placed in his full career it reads as recognition from someone who knows the club well, rather than as a move that slipped away.

In my opinion his best quality is that he makes the players around him look comfortable, which rarely shows up in a goals column. But, if you want to judge him fairly, look at what Pirates do in the matches he starts against the ones he does not, using the player module above. Ezimnyama Ngenkani supporters tend to rate him on that kind of evidence, and they usually rate him highly.

Dlamini and South Africa B: The 2025 COSAFA Cup and His Caps

Kabelo Dlamini was called up for South Africa B at the 2025 COSAFA Cup. His international appearances and goals are carried in the international module.

What is the difference between South Africa B and Bafana Bafana? South Africa B is the developmental side used at regional tournaments such as the COSAFA Cup, while the senior Bafana Bafana team plays Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup qualifiers, so his caps are B side caps and not senior ones. Many search results blur the two, which is why the caps question causes confusion.

Dlamini scored against Zimbabwe in the group stage of the 2025 COSAFA Cup.

The tournament ended in Bloemfontein on 15 June 2025, when Angola beat South Africa's developmental side 3 to 0 in the final to win their second COSAFA title in a row. There was something fitting about a Daveyton player reaching a final in the city where his senior career began with Celtic. His caps total is kept in the international module above, which updates if he is called up again.

Kabelo Dlamini net worth

For Kabelo Dlamini, read any financial estimate in the data module alongside its publication date and supporting evidence. His July 2024 news profile discussed the Spanish interest without supplying a salary or wealth figure. That profile therefore cannot support a rand amount for his earnings, image rights or endorsements.

Why is it so hard to pin down? A salary figure needs a clear source and date before it can be assessed. A place on a highest paid players list would not, by itself, establish Dlamini's personal wealth.

Transfer value websites do publish market value estimates for him. But, a market value is a guess at the fee one club might pay another, and that fee would go to Orlando Pirates, not into the player's pocket. It measures his price on the transfer market, never his personal wealth, which is why it is not used here as a stand in for net worth.

Calculating Dlamini's wealth would require valuing his assets and deducting his debts. His soccer wages alone cannot supply that balance, because earnings reveal neither accumulated savings nor outstanding borrowing. Assess any financial entry in his data module by checking whether it documents those components or merely quotes pay.

How to Watch Dlamini From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

You watch Kabelo Dlamini wherever Orlando Pirates matches are shown, and the broadcaster and streaming details for each country sit in the fixtures module rather than in the prose. In South Africa, Premiership matches are followed mainly on television and streams, with Bucs supporters carrying the conversation on social media long after the final whistle. In Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda the audience is smaller, and it usually arrives through CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup nights, when Pirates meet clubs from across the continent.

For Dlamini's matches, the fixture cards place WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT alongside one another. An evening start at 19:00 in Soweto corresponds to 18:00 WAT for Lagos, 20:00 EAT for Nairobi and Kampala, and 17:00 GMT for Accra.

To follow Dlamini rather than Pirates as a whole, read the club's fixture card alongside the player module, which records his starts, substitute appearances and goals by competition. Cup rounds deserve a special look, because the Nedbank Cup is where his biggest moment arrived. And, the Soweto derby against Kaizer Chiefs is the date every Bucs supporter circles first, so open the derby card early and note the kick off in your own time zone.