Lebogang Manyama scored the decisive goal in the last 20 minutes to send Chiefs to the last 16 of the tournament on Saturday evening.
"Hard fought, it's always difficult playing against an opposition from the lower division but they made it very difficult for us, they set back and we were trying to unlock them," Maluleka said on SuperSport TV after receiving his Man of the Match prize.
"We had a couple of shots at goal but the goalkeeper saved, big ups to them, they came and showed up, I think we fully deserve the win today.
"The younger boys have a point to prove and they want to show us that they deserve to be in the same field as us you know. So for us as Kaizer Chiefs we want to make sure and show them as well why we're Kaizer Chiefs."
The former SuperSport United and Ajax Cape Town midfielder revealed what the technical team said to them at half-time.
"They [technical team at half-time] said it was a bit slow, you know we always struggle when we're coming from a break, it's been two weeks since we played," he continued.
"First-half we started a bit slow, you saw in the second-half when we started, we came out guns blazing. We got a bit of shouting at half-time and second-half we came and showed a bit of urgency."