Education
He also studied at University of South Africa.
He also studied at University of South Africa.
He matriculated at Belgravia High School in 1987, Lyle Lakay also matriculated at the same school. When he was at Cape Town Spurs in 1992, he also worked as a financial manager at Josman and Seidel until late into his Amazulu spell in 1996. In his second spell with Santos,he led Santos to the BobSave Knockout Cup (2000/01), Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party) league title (2001/02), Boite Postale Top Eight Cup (2002) and Absa Knockout Cup (2002/03).
When Burton retired in 2007, Santos boss Goolam Allie disclosed that no other Santos player will wear jersey number 23 which was worn by Burton.
Shortly after retiring he became the Chief Operations Manager at Santos. In 2012 he took up a Financial and Accounting course at Wits Business School Burton quit as the chief operating officer of Santos on 6 August 2014.
On 7 August 2014 he became the Chief Executive Officer of National First Division side, Cape Town All Stars.