Meshua Mello

Striker - Polokwane City
9 Mar 2028
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The Polokwane City Courier

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Nov 2027

A fracture rules Brian Bwire out for 43 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.

Match30 Oct 2027

Cruel end for Bidvest Wits as Polokwane City pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Polokwane City scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market1 Nov 2027

Only the photograph left for Francis Baloyi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francis Baloyi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Polokwane City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Meshua Mello: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Polokwane City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad1 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Polokwane City

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

Match30 Oct 2027

The drought breaks for Polokwane City

6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Bidvest Wits were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

A defender's afternoon for Thabang Matuludi

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The terraces1 Nov 2027

The crowd has taken to Monty Batlhabane

At 22 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.

Match30 Oct 2027

Simon Ramabu sends Polokwane City past Bidvest Wits

It finished 1‑0, and it was Simon Ramabu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Polokwane City.

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51 Edition

The Polokwane City Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jul 2027

Sibusiso Tshabalala damages knee ligaments — 84 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.

The terraces19 Jul 2027

The mood at Polokwane City has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

The dugout19 Jul 2027

Thabelo Tshikweta says Polokwane City went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market19 Jul 2027

Moloko Nape hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Polokwane City can pretend not to have heard.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Monty Batlhabane 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.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Polokwane City rebuffed over Camilo Rey Domenech

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Polokwane City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market19 Jul 2027

Bidvest Wits join the queue for Francis Baloyi

Add another name to the list: Bidvest Wits have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Francis Baloyi. The answer from Polokwane City has not changed — yet.

Squad19 Jul 2027

Words at Polokwane City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kambala 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.

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Polokwane City try to borrow Siyabonga Dladla

Orlando Pirates have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief