{"id":18901,"date":"2026-06-03T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:46:12","slug":"south-africans-abroad-r7-million-worth-talent-goes-awol-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18901\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans Abroad: R7 million-worth talent goes AWOL in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

South African attacker Siviwe Magidigidi has reportedly gone AWOL in Belgium where he is playing for K Beerschot VA.<\/p>\n

Magidigidi joined the Belgian outfit for a reported R7 million transfer fee from Siwelele FC in January 2026.<\/p>\n

At the time, the 20-year-old signed a three-and-a-half year deal, meaning he still has a contract to honour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He went to Beerschot with high expectations after taking the PSL by storm in his first few months with Siwelele FC.<\/p>\n

According to FarPost<\/a>, Magidigidi was granted compassionate leave in May, and he has never returned to Beerschot since then.<\/p>\n

The club still doesn\u2019t know his whereabouts but he is suspected to be in South Africa after struggling to adapt to life in Belgium.<\/p>\n

SOUTH AFRICANS ABROAD: MAGIDIGIDI GOES AWOL IN BELGIUM<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth African youth international Siviwe Magidigidi has gone AWOL at Belgian Challenger Pro League club K Beerschot VA after failing to return from compassionate leave,\u00a0FARPost\u00a0can reveal,\u201d reads part of the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe former Siwelele FC forward left Belgium early in May after being granted permission by Beerschot to travel to South Africa to attend a family bereavement. However, despite the club\u2019s approval for the trip, the 20-year-old has yet to return, raising uncertainty over his future at the Belgian outfit.\u201d<\/p>\n

WHAT ARE MAGIDIGIDI\u2019S NUMBERS AT BEERSCHOT?<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old featured seven times for Beerschot since his arrival in January which included three starts and four substitutes.<\/p>\n

He is yet to find the back of the net for the Belgian outfit, but that could change next season provided he returns to Beerschot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African attacker Siviwe Magidigidi has reportedly gone AWOL in Belgium where he is playing for K Beerschot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,7,984,8383,8384],"class_list":["post-18901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-belgium","tag-featured","tag-important","tag-south-africans-abroad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116687194262581012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}