It is neither national braai day nor a celebrity wedding.
But the six sheep on the spit braai and the two traditionally cooked cattle tell of a people and their club united in celebration.
They are not celebrating Golden Arrows' victory over Mamelodi Sundowns earlier that day. The throngs are paying homage to the football class of 2009 who entered their names in the annals of history by grabbing the club's maiden major cup final victory.
The event will run into the wee hours of Sunday in the Durban township that gave the world the late jazz genius Bheki Mseleku and his late musician niece Wendy.
The jubilation has been "delayed live" because, after annihilating Ajax Cape Town 6-0 to capture the MTN8, the champions stayed in Jozi to honour a fixture against Chiefs and travel to Cape Town for a league date with Ajax before taking their R8-million loot home.
Although they lost 2-0 to Chiefs and drew 1-1 with Ajax and Bloemfontein Celtic, it has not removed the shine from their scintillating final showing in the eyes of the locals.
The cup-final triumph was profound for a province that last cheered tournament success 17 years ago when AmaZulu crushed Kaizer Chiefs 3-1 to win the 1992 Coca-Cola Cup.
Back in 1943, when musician Maswidi Xaba came up with the idea of forming a brass band, those who were not interested in blowing horns suggested he also form a football club.
Abafana Bes'thende were born - a club whose mantra was rolling the pigskin on the ground while dazzling their opponents with a gallery of trickery.
With players including Popo Zungu, Mahlalela Hadebe and Scara Wanda, they established themselves as such a powerful force that hell was visited on Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs when they played Arrows at Curries Fountain, Princess Magogo or King Zwelithini stadiums.
Many great derbies were fought against Durban Bush Bucks, AmaZulu and African Wanderers. But it all came to an abrupt end when Arrows split in two in the mid-1970s before disappearing into temporary oblivion.
Lamontville resident Rocky Madlala revived the club in 1996 when he bought second-division outfit Ntokozo FC and renamed it Lamontville Golden Arrows .
"The bulk of the players were from our township and that is what made Rocky feel strongly about reviving the team," said director Mato Madlala. "Ntokozo FC were campaigning in the second division but after buying their status, we won promotion to the first division."
Two years later, Rocky's dream of gaining promotion to the PSL was realised.
"He was filled with a great sense of pride to see it coming together," said Mato, today a member of the powerful Premier Soccer League executive committee.
One of Rocky's masterstrokes was to appoint Manqoba Mngqithi - who arrived in 2005 as head of development and assistant to then-coach Khabo Zondo - as manager in 2007 when Zondo departed.
Mngqithi, the schoolteacher from Umzimkhulu whose other given name is Brilliant, takes a multifunctional approach that allows players to switch positions, enabling the coach to have a pool of players who can play three or four different positions.
"I do not confine players to one style of football.
"The idea is for them to understand all the dynamics so that they can adapt to any situations," said Mngqithi.
While some see Arrows as the Arsenal or Barcelona of South Africa, Mngqithi is no coaching copycat.
"Offensively, we play total football by playing to all the dynamics of the game, paying specific attention to the principles of width and depth, improvisation and the element of surprise infused in the mobility demanded by modern football," he said.
"Defensively, it is all about compactness, pressure on the ball, understanding the lines of confrontation in defence and wing pressing. All those are facets of modern football, applied with special emphasis on individual technical behaviour."
However, lack of harmony between attack and defence makes it easy to see why they are the draw kings.
Of 15 games in the current PSL campaign, they have won three, drawn 10 and lost two.
Yet when the dice rolls right, Arrows are an absolute demolition machine with an insatiable appetite for goals.
As well as savaging Sundowns 4-2 in the league last season, they thumped Platinum Stars a half a dozen to nothing and visited a 4-1 kamikaze on Kaizer Chiefs, to knock them out of the Telkom Knockout.
Small wonder the reigning Lesley Manyathela top-scoring king is Richard Henyekane, who broke the monopoly of foreign strikers with his 19 goals last season.
In the MTN8 he was the joint top scorer with strike partner Njabulo Manqana, with three goals apiece.
But their elaboration and pre-occupation with walking the ball into the net has been their downfall at times, leading to their failure to capture anything meaningful since they gained promotion to the PSL in the 1999-2000 season.
"The priority has been to instil discipline in our play, bring an element of speed, transition.
"In the past, we were more of an entertaining team, never really convincing, vulnerable in set pieces," said Mngqithi.
"We have passed the test of being competitive with flying colours but now it's time to start winning trophies."
Mngithi's ability to act quickly and decisively to replace quality with quality allows Arrows to plug the gaps with ease.
Goodbye Papi Zothwane, hello younger brother Nhlanhla.
Farewell Kagisho Dikgacoi, sawubona Musa Bilankulu.
Abia Nale gone, no problem, Manqana slots in.
It is a club that takes care of its own when yesterday's stars become today's former stars.
Bonke Buthelezi, the former PRO who ventured into coaching, looks after the under-13s.
Erstwhile heroes Lucky Sibeko and Siyabonga Khanyile are in charge of the under-17s, while Khanyile guides the under-19s.
Stability is their middle name. Arrows have had only three coaches - Ncebo Sibiya, Zondo and Mngqithi - in 10 years in the elite division.
Loyalty is another quality they value highly.
They bucked the trend among newly promoted teams of chasing the signatures of washed-up, unwanted players.
"We were promoted with the players from the first division and kept them. After that we developed others and made them known," said PRO Zwe Mzolo. "We don't have a chequebook. We groom and offer opportunity to the youngsters.
"At Arrows we are not scared to give people a chance."
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