The Kaizer Chiefs Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rushwin Dortley
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kaizer Chiefs lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Mfundo Vilakazi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.53
A mark of 8.53 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Pule Mmodi yet — 8.32
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.32 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Given Msimango delivers — 7.76
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Given Msimango scored, was marked 7.76, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A chastening introduction for Gopolang Taunyane — 5.64
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.64 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Kaizer Chiefs
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Kaizer Chiefs
Brandon Petersen 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Imaad Hendricks is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Kaizer Chiefs and Polokwane City in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
In brief
- Squad Words at Kaizer Chiefs training over how hard people work
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Mfundo Vilakazi
- Match Kaizer Chiefs and Polokwane City take a point apiece