Ayabonga Gwangqa

Right Back - Polokwane City
10 Oct 2026
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The Polokwane City Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Puleng Marema out for 127 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Polokwane City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Stevens Goovadia damages knee ligaments — 114 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 114 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Francis Baloyi 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 Polokwane City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Polokwane City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Bwire 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.

Player ratings

Rodney Maphangule runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Sapolwethu Kelepu is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Polokwane City has been clear about where Sapolwethu Kelepu stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

Francis Baloyi keeps on missing

Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ayabonga Gwangqa

13 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Match

Polokwane City draw a blank against University of Pretoria

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. University of Pretoria defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief