Meshua Mello

Striker - Polokwane City
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

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The Polokwane City Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Puleng Marema out for 120 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 — 107 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.

Market

Moloko Nape asks to leave Polokwane City

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Polokwane City

Francis Baloyi 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.

Market

Bidvest Wits watching Sapolwethu Kelepu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Polokwane City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Brian Bwire 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.

Player ratings

Monty Batlhabane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Polokwane City and Maritzburg United take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Sibusiso Tshabalala keeps on missing

Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief