Career
Mpondo played for Roman Rangers and Meadowlands Inter African Eleven as a teenager. He attended Daliwonga High School and Kelokitso High School with Doctor Khumalo and Marks Maponyane in Dube. He was signed for R20 000 after Fetsi Molatedi left for Chiefs for a record breaking R 45 000.
He was the first player to score at the newly builty FNB Stadium on 2 September 1989, beating new Kaizer Chiefs and former Manchester United goalkeeper Gary Bailey.
By his retirement in 1996 he played 395 matches for Swallows.