The University of Pretoria Herald
Market1 Feb 2027
Athenkosi Tonisi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at University of Pretoria, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at University of Pretoria
Samuel Julies was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Veli Mothwa falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market1 Feb 2027
University of Pretoria sell Prince Nxumalo for $55.0K
Prince Nxumalo has left for Bidvest Wits in a $55.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match30 Jan 2027
University of Pretoria find a way past Platinum Stars
Platinum Stars made University of Pretoria work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
The crowd has taken to Aphelele Teto
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
The afternoon belonged to Jody Ah Shene
A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Veli Mothwa dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Abel Mabaso has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at University of Pretoria will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Camagu Mdevulana
- Player ratings Aphelele Teto changes it off the bench
- Market The window shut and Riyaaz Ismail is still in the building