Bongani Jele


Bongani Jele is a South African cricket umpire. He is part of Cricket South Africa's umpire panel for first-class matches. Along with Adrian Holdstock he umpired the final of the 2015–16 Ram Slam T20 Challenge in December 2015 and he stood in the first-class tour match between South Africa A and England XI later the same month.
He stood in his first One Day International match, between Australia and Ireland in Benoni, South Africa, on 27 September 2016. He stood in his first Twenty20 International match, between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Johannesburg, on 22 January 2017. In January 2020, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup tournament in South Africa.