Thato Shiang

Right Back - Jomo Cosmos
19 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thato Shiang

19 Edition

The Jomo Cosmos Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Jomo Cosmos

A 0‑3 beating by Bidvest Wits was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

Jomo Cosmos sink to position 15

12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Jomo Cosmos

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Jomo Cosmos is running low.

Match

5 matches without a win for Jomo Cosmos

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Jomo Cosmos are no longer polite ones.

Match

The goals have deserted Jomo Cosmos

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jomo Cosmos can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Jomo Cosmos

Iván Junco 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.

Squad

Teboho Hlatshwayo out for 56 days

The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Teboho Hlatshwayo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Jomo Cosmos dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Kwanele Nayo named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Kwanele Nayo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Jomo Cosmos Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Thato Shiang: 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.” Jomo Cosmos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Siyabonga Makhoba 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 Jomo Cosmos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Jomo Cosmos against Platinum Stars

1‑2 to Platinum Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Thabiso Sesane 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Monnapule Saleng at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jomo Cosmos.

Squad

Mário Lúcio knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mário Lúcio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief