The location of the theft was narrowed down to the area around an old abandoned village called Kgatlane on theVaal near the Orange River in South Africa.
In a happy coincidence the descendants of these Kgatlane people are now being allowed to reclaim and return to their ancestral lands on theVaal after their removal under apartheid to the "homeland" of Boputhatswana in 1978.
It will be Mashaba's first job with a club since the relegation from the top flight of South African football of his last side Vaal Reef Stars in 1992.