Samukelo Kabini: Soccer Career, Bafana Caps and Net Worth

Samukelo Kabini is a South African soccer defender, born on 15 March 2004, who joined Norwegian league club Molde from TS Galaxy on 20 March 2025. He scored for Bafana Bafana against Guinea on 26 September 2026 in a qualifier for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, helping South Africa win 2 to 1 at Orlando Stadium. His story connects the Buccaneers’ youth system with a senior breakthrough at Galaxy and a move into the Norwegian league.

For supporters of South Africa, the interest reaches beyond another player securing a European contract. Kabini offers a way to follow how a PSL developed defender adapts abroad and brings that experience into Bafana’s defence. His career milestones explain that route. The reported transfer fee also needs to be distinguished from personal wealth. The live records module supplies the changing totals, while the career account explains how he reached those stages.

Who Is Samukelo Kabini?

Samukelo Kabini is a South African defender. His full name is Samukele Alucious Kabini, and Samukele Kabini is another spelling readers will encounter in career records. These names refer to the same player. Born on 15 March 2004, he built his senior career through TS Galaxy before joining Molde in 2025.

The spelling matters when checking a squad list or searching for a match report, because a different first name can make records look disconnected. Follow the club history and birth date alongside the name to establish the correct player. Among African soccer players, Kabini’s route is particularly relevant to Mzansi readers: development within Orlando Pirates’ youth system, an opportunity elsewhere in the PSL and then the challenge of taking that education into another soccer environment.

How Did Kabini Get From Pirates Youth to Molde?

Kabini progressed from Orlando Pirates’ youth system to TS Galaxy in 2023, then joined Molde in March 2025. Wikipedia records that Galaxy recruited him from the Buccaneers’ PSL Reserve League squad. That distinction matters: his Pirates connection belongs to his development years, while Galaxy provided the senior league platform behind his overseas move. Wikipedia, accessed 11 November 2026, gives no fee for the 2023 transfer, so there is no supported amount to attach to that step.

TS Galaxy signed him in 2023. The dated career records module is the place to check appearances by competition and counting method. A league appearance total should be compared with another league total, rather than a figure including cups. That small check prevents a promising senior spell from being described through figures covering different selections of matches.

Wikipedia records his Molde signing on 20 March 2025, with a contract running to 2028 and shirt number 26 recorded for the move. Wikipedia reports the transfer fee as about R15 million in 2025. For a South African defender moving from Galaxy, the fee gives useful context to the scale of the transaction. It remains money associated with acquiring his registration, however, and does not disclose his personal earnings.

Molde’s setting also helps explain the destination. The club play at Aker Stadion, whose listed capacity was 11,249 when accessed in November 2026, and won Norwegian league titles in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2019 and 2022. Readers who recognise Ole Gunnar Solskjær will know another connection: he managed Molde from 2011 to January 2014 and again from 2015 to December 2018. Those historical reference points place Kabini’s move within an established Norwegian soccer club.

What Does Kabini Do on the Pitch?

Kabini’s recorded position is defender. When assessing his role in a match, check where he starts and which spaces he covers. A wider starting position brings different responsibilities from a central one. His involvement in possession should be assessed alongside his defending.

What should a supporter watch when assessing him? Start with his position before the ball arrives, then follow the decision he makes under pressure. Returning possession to the goalkeeper can help retain the ball; carrying it forward depends on the space and cover around him. A position label and a transfer announcement alone cannot establish his pace or the quality of his tackling.

His scoring contribution against Guinea in September 2026 provides a specific senior international milestone, although a defender’s value extends beyond a goal. Watch how he recovers his position after joining an attack and how he responds when possession changes. For PSL supporters following his development in Norway, those sequences offer more insight than a highlights clip alone. The move abroad creates another setting in which to assess his decisions, without assuming that the destination itself proves improvement.

What Is Kabini’s Bafana Bafana Record?

The national team records module lists Kabini’s senior South Africa appearances and goals. Check its update date before quoting a number. A cap records a senior international appearance; a squad announcement establishes selection but does not, by itself, add an appearance.

He received a call up for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and was selected for South Africa’s 2026 FIFA World Cup squad on 28 May 2026. These are important milestones in a career that had already moved from Galaxy to Molde. They should be described precisely as selections. To establish which tournament matches he played, consult the appearance records rather than treating inclusion in either squad as evidence that he took the field in every fixture.

Kabini scored against Guinea on 26 September 2026 at Orlando Stadium, where South Africa secured a 2 to 1 victory in a qualifier for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. That gives the goal a clear competitive setting and keeps the account consistent with the match record. For Bafana supporters, the fixtures module lists each qualifying match with its competition label. Read the competition label alongside each result so qualifiers and friendly matches remain distinct.

Samukelo Kabini net worth

Kabini’s Wikipedia entry offered no wealth estimate or figures for wages and sponsorship earnings when checked on 11 November 2026. Without a documented amount for Kabini, conversions into rand, naira, shillings or cedis would have no numerical foundation. His image rights receipts were also absent from that entry. Attaching a precise sum to Kabini would therefore require financial evidence beyond the career details recorded there.

For Kabini’s March 2025 switch from Galaxy to Molde, Wikipedia gives an approximate transfer cost of R15 million. That amount describes the clubs’ transaction; it does not reveal how much Kabini personally holds. Any valuation of Kabini as a transfer prospect would answer a different question from an assessment of his wealth. Neither the Galaxy departure fee nor a market estimate establishes his savings, property or other assets.

A usable wage figure for Kabini would require an identifiable report with a publication year. Even documented pay across his Galaxy and Molde spells would leave his possessions and debts unaccounted for. Commercial payments to Kabini, including sponsorship and image rights income, would each need supporting reporting. Should an eligible news organisation estimate Kabini’s wealth, readers would need its name, reporting year and explanation of how the amount was calculated.

How Can You Watch Kabini From South Africa and Across Africa?

To watch Kabini, identify whether the fixture involves Molde or Bafana Bafana, then check the dated viewing information for your country. Club and international rights can differ, and a broadcaster carrying one competition may not carry another. South African readers should check the listed public or subscription coverage for the specific match. Kabini followers watching from Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana or Kenya need viewing details specific to their location; coverage listed for Mzansi does not establish availability elsewhere.

Read kick off times across all four regional zones: WAT for Nigeria, EAT for Kenya and Uganda, SAST for South Africa, and GMT for Ghana. If Kabini’s fixture begins at 19:00 SAST in South Africa, viewers in Ghana have a 17:00 GMT start, Nigeria follows at 18:00 WAT, and Kenya and Uganda tune in at 20:00 EAT. Norwegian local times need particular care because seasonal clock changes affect the conversion. Use the fixture’s displayed African times rather than carrying an old conversion forward to another date.

Highlights and match reports can help supporters follow a Norwegian league career between Bafana appearances, although short clips provide only part of a defender’s work. For Kabini’s longer view, pair those reports with the dated appearance record and the position shown in each line up. His March 2025 agreement set a contract horizon of 2028; subsequent contract developments belong in dated updates. Before choosing a broadcast, confirm the fixture date, competition, local start and country specific viewing entry together.