RADEBE'S GRIEF OVER STADIUM DEATHS
A similar event occurred pre-season in Orkney when the two sides played a pre-season friendly, at that time 42 people died and Radebe himself had been involved in a stampede when he played for The Chiefs.
Initial reports stated that there were at least 68,000 people in the stadium and with a huge number of fans waiting outside to get in, the gates had been locked out but desperate to see the game, those who had not got in surged forward and caused severe overcrowding.
Speaking to Radio Five Live, Radebe said: "When people lose lives like that at a football game it is really, really sad.
"What happened was absolutely a disaster for all the families of all those people who died - a tragedy. I spoke to a couple of players and they could not believe what was happening.
"When Kaiser play Orlando Pirates, there is more than 100,000 people who want to come to watch the games.
"Things like this have happened before.
"When I played one of the games against Orlando Pirates a similar thing happened and about 25 people died that day.
"That was about seven or eight years ago. It might have been even 10 years ago."
Radebe, who was born in Johannesburg, was hopeful that at least some good would come out of the event and South African stadia would receive a full safety overhaul.
The Leeds star said: "Things like this do happen and you do learn from them, especially in a country which always tries to get better. Things will improve.
"This highlights some of the problems and hopefully things like this will never happen now.
"It is when these things happen that you must ask the questions."
Meanwhile, Keith Cooper, Fifa's director of communications, told Radio Five Live that the tragedy would not affect South Africa's future World Cup bids.
It has been widely speculated that the country will get to hold the competition in 2010 after failing by one vote to beat out Germany for the 2006 bid.
However, Cooper said: "I don't think we should rush to condemn South Africa just because it's South Africa.
"Fifa made the decision that the World Cup would first go to the continent of Africa - not necessarily South Africa - but we are along way away from deciding this.
"This is a tragedy of considerable proportions, four dozen people have been killed and it's being taken extremely seriously, but as far as 2010 is concerned it is still a long time away.
"There are lessons to be learned and hopefully we can put it right, just as was the case in England after the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy.
"Clearly it could not have come at a worse time, but these things never come at a good time and unfortunately they happen in many countries.
"We've got to be careful. We have no official information of the incident, but obviously something very bad went wrong."
