David Lukhele

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28 Edition

The Golden Arrows Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market8 Feb 2027

Terms done: Philani Khumalo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Maritzburg United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Golden Arrows is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market8 Feb 2027

Teboho Tlolane asks to leave Golden Arrows

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Nduduzo Sibiya: 12 seasons and counting

243 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Golden Arrows know exactly what they have.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

David Lukhele keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Golden Arrows may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Golden Arrows count the cost of losing Keenan Phillips

34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market8 Feb 2027

Only the photograph left for Edward Maova

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Edward Maova will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Golden Arrows the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market8 Feb 2027

Nkosi Gumede’s move to Jomo Cosmos falls through

The deal that would have taken Nkosi Gumede to Jomo Cosmos has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Golden Arrows with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at Golden Arrows training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thabo Matlaba is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Loan watch8 Feb 2027

Samkelo Dlamuka has seen enough of Ajax Cape Town

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Golden Arrows, and 5 appearances in 26 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

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The Golden Arrows Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market18 Jan 2027

Jerome Karelse agrees terms with Bidvest Wits

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Golden Arrows people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Dumisani Msibi

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market18 Jan 2027

David Lukhele 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 Golden Arrows, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Oumar Komara keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Golden Arrows may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market18 Jan 2027

Gazelle come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Golden Arrows did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Too dear: Golden Arrows walk away from Brandon Petersen

$980.0K was the most the club would pay and Kaizer Chiefs were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Golden Arrows

Nduduzo Sibiya and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Thabo Matlaba 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Another clean sheet for Dumisani Msibi

8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Dumisani Msibi has given nobody the chance.

In brief

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The Golden Arrows Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Golden Arrows

Nduduzo Sibiya and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

169% of the income goes out in wages at Golden Arrows

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Themba Mantshiyane 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.

Loan watch30 Nov 2026

Samkelo Dlamuka has seen enough of Ajax Cape Town

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Golden Arrows, and 4 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Lungelo Dube was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Half-satisfied: Keagan Tau on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

The chances came and went for Jerome Karelse

15 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of David Lukhele

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match28 Nov 2026

Point won or two lost for Golden Arrows?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Jomo Cosmos? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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The Golden Arrows Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match24 Oct 2026

Jerome Karelse’s goal not enough for Golden Arrows

Jerome Karelse scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Polokwane City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Golden Arrows training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Themba Mantshiyane is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad26 Oct 2026

David Lukhele in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Golden Arrows this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Keagan Tau answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Edward Maova gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Looking ahead26 Oct 2026

Dumisani Msibi goes back to face University of Pretoria

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dumisani Msibi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Golden Arrows needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

The one thing Siphamandla Sabelo could not do

Shots: 4, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Market26 Oct 2026

The Dumisani Msibi question follows Golden Arrows around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dumisani Msibi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Teboho Tlolane gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Teboho Tlolane is on it.

In brief