Paseka Mako: Soccer Career, Club, Bafana Caps and Net Worth

Paseka Mako is a South African soccer player, born on 1 April 1994 in Limpopo, who plays as a defender. He joined Kaizer Chiefs in July 2025 after seven years at Orlando Pirates, having also represented South Africa. No credible numerical net worth estimate appears in the cited reporting, while Wikipedia’s historical Bafana Bafana record lists three senior caps and no goals, dated 3 October 2020.

For supporters searching for his club, the dated move to Kaizer Chiefs settles an important distinction: older listings showing him at Pirates are out of date. Use the live club status module above for his latest registration details. His journey also deserves more than a club badge and a loosely labelled wealth figure. It connects the smaller clubs of the PSL with the Soweto derby, while showing why reported wages, transfer valuations and personal wealth need separate explanations.

Who Is Paseka Mako?

Mako is a defender born on 1 April 1994 in Limpopo. The encyclopedia lists his height at 1.63 m, a useful identifying detail alongside his birth date and Limpopo birthplace when search results bring together different people called Mako.

His career belongs firmly in the South African game, from development soccer to clubs with some of Mzansi’s largest followings. Readers discovering him among other African soccer players should begin with that pathway rather than a wealth headline. Cape Town All Stars and Chippa United were substantial stages in his progress before the move to Orlando Pirates. The later switch to Kaizer Chiefs gives his profile particular interest for supporters who follow both sides of the Soweto derby closely.

How Did Mako Reach Chiefs From the Sundowns Youth System?

Mako came through the Mamelodi Sundowns youth system before joining Cape Town All Stars in 2015, according to Briefly News. He did not make a senior appearance for Sundowns in the supplied career record. That distinction matters: academy development and senior club service are different parts of a player’s history. All Stars provided his next step into senior soccer, beginning a route through clubs outside the biggest supporter bases before he reached the Soweto stage.

He moved from Cape Town All Stars to Chippa United in 2016, then joined Orlando Pirates in 2018. The cited sources do not give a reported transfer fee for either move, or for his arrival at All Stars. An absent fee should remain undisclosed rather than become an assumed free transfer. His progression also gives readers outside South Africa a useful picture of the PSL pathway, where performances at smaller clubs can open the door to a much larger audience.

His Pirates spell ran from 2018 to 2025, followed by a move to Chiefs in July 2025. Briefly News reported a three year deal with Kaizer Chiefs, although that historical announcement should not be read as a fresh statement about his contract status. No transfer fee is supplied in the cited reporting for the Chiefs move. The career chronology below therefore records the move and its year without attaching a price that the evidence does not establish.

Why does that final move carry so much attention? Chiefs and Pirates contest the Soweto derby, described by Wikipedia as South Africa’s biggest club fixture. A direct switch between them changes which supporters are cheering a familiar player, while keeping him inside the same great rivalry. Both sides have their own expectations of the shirt. For Mako, the July 2025 move joined two chapters that supporters often discuss separately: his long service with Orlando Pirates and his new chapter with Kaizer Chiefs.

What Does Mako Do on the Pitch?

Mako’s role as a defender involves responsibilities that vary with the formation. Defensive work includes protecting space, tracking opponents and judging when to support an attack. The team sheet and formation graphic help establish his assignment for a particular appearance.

The useful viewing questions concern his positioning, his support for the player ahead and his recovery when possession changes. Does he move forward while a teammate covers the space behind him? How does his positioning change when an attack develops on the opposite flank? Those observations help explain a defender’s contribution beyond goals and assists. They also give supporters a practical way to assess Mako without turning a short highlights package into a complete judgement of his game.

A significant historical interruption came in April 2022, when Mako suffered facial fractures in a collision with Pirates teammate Richard Ofori. Briefly News reported that he returned to training in May 2022. Those dates describe a past injury and recovery milestone, not his fitness for a later fixture. For availability, use the dated team information in the live modules. Similarly, read any match performance alongside its opponent, competition and role rather than treating an undated player description as permanent evidence.

What Is Mako’s Bafana Bafana Record?

Mako’s senior South Africa record begins in 2018, and Wikipedia lists three caps with no goals in figures dated 3 October 2020. It also records one appearance for the South Africa under 23 side in 2015. These are separate levels of international soccer, so the youth appearance must not be added to his senior total. The date is equally important: an old statistical snapshot answers what was recorded then, while the live stats module supplies the later record.

Bafana Bafana means ‘the boys’ in isiZulu, and the national shirt places Mako within a wider South African soccer story. South Africa won the Africa Cup of Nations at home in 1996 and finished third at the 2023 tournament, played in 2024. Those are national team achievements, not a claim that Mako participated in either campaign. To assess his own international contribution, check the competition and date attached to each appearance rather than treating every national honour as an individual medal.

Paseka Mako net worth

No credible named outlet in the cited reporting has published a numerical net worth estimate for Paseka Mako. Briefly News’s 2025 profile says only that his wealth is ‘estimated to be significant’, without supplying an amount or calculation. That wording cannot support a rand figure or a conversion into another currency. Net worth requires information about assets and liabilities, and the available reporting does not provide enough detail to establish either side of that calculation.

For salary, Briefly News’s 2025 profile reports about R80,000 per month and about €160,000 per year during his Pirates years. These are unverified press estimates, and the article does not identify the earnings year. The two amounts also do not reconcile as descriptions of the same annual pay. Neither establishes his earnings after joining Chiefs in July 2025. A dependable salary per week cannot be derived from contradictory figures, and converting them into naira, shillings or cedis would add apparent precision without resolving the uncertainty.

Market value needs its own label because it estimates a player’s potential transfer value rather than his personal wealth. No dated numerical transfer valuation from an allowed source is established in the cited material, so there is no supported amount to quote here. A transfer fee generally goes to the selling club; it does not become the player’s bank balance. Wages describe earnings over a period, while net worth concerns accumulated assets after liabilities. Published estimates are never the same thing as personal accounts.

For endorsements, Briefly News’s 2025 profile describes Mako’s arrangements as ‘limited’ and reports no payment figures. It also supplies no separately identified image rights income. That leaves both categories undisclosed rather than worth zero. A photograph, a branded item or a public appearance does not establish a paid agreement by itself. Readers comparing player finances should keep those gaps visible: the reporting offers uncertain historical salary figures, but no numerical net worth, endorsement income or image rights valuation.

How Can You Watch Mako From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda?

To follow Mako, open the fixture entry and check which competition and viewing territory it covers. His club’s involvement does not always mean he will appear; the confirmed selection establishes whether he starts or is named among the substitutes. South African supporters can consult the domestic listing, while viewers in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda need the entry for their country. League and cup fixtures can carry different viewing arrangements, so use the listing attached to the match you want to follow.

For Mako’s fixtures, read the kick off time in SAST for South Africa, WAT for Nigeria, GMT for Ghana and EAT for Kenya and Uganda. Include all four labelled times when passing his club’s fixture details to fellow supporters across those countries. Check the dated entry again before settling down to watch Mako, as schedule changes can affect your plans. Read the competition name alongside his club’s opponents to distinguish a league appearance from a cup occasion.

Assess Mako’s involvement through his minutes, appearances and recorded position, then consult his club’s results and log for context. Keep his Bafana Bafana appearances separate from his youth international record when selecting statistics. For a viewing check, match the fixture date to your country’s clock and then read the announced selection.