Chiefs had fallen to within a single game of matching their longest run without a victory after their 4-0 humiliation by Wydad Casablanca in the CAF Champions last Sunday stretched their winless run to eight games in a row.
That result, which put Chiefs on the equivalent of 12 hours of football without winning, made for sad reading in the form chart – L, D, D, L, L, L, D, D – but they have now placed a 'W' at the end of that series.
The 2-0 win over Petro de Luanda on Saturday meant they stopped one game short of the nine-in-a-row streak from the 2001/02 season that came straight after they won the 2001 CAF Cup Winners' Cup under Muhsin Ertugral.
In that dismal run of nine games without a win from two decades ago they lost to SuperSport United, Hellenic, Orlando Pirates, Bush Bucks and Mamelodi Sundowns then drew with AmaZulu, Moroka Swallows, Wits University and Tembisa Classic.
The finished ninth in the league 15 points behind champions Santos.
It had recently been six weeks since Chiefs had won a game having spent all of February chasing shadows losing to Wydad, AmaZulu, Richards Bay and Orlando Pirates while salvaging a point against each of Stellenbosch, Baroka, SuperSport United and Horoya.
Chiefs still look vulnerable, lost and thin in confidence right now during a season in which they will finish empty-handed yet again for the sixth campaign counting, which is the longest they have had to wait for silverware in their 51 years of existence.
For two seasons in a row (2015/16 and 2016/17) when Steve Komphela was in charge, they also went eight without winning and in both years finished empty-handed.
Next up Amakhosi travel to bogey side Maritzburg United on Wednesday and then fly out to Luanda and upon their return will face Orlando Pirates before the FIFA calendar week.
Luckily for Gavin Hunt – unless the recent win over Petro signals the start of a winning run – football is being played without fans at the stadium due to Covid-19 so the voices of disgruntlement are not in his face during games.