Jesse Gewer

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
3 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Jesse Gewer

8 Edition

The Kaizer Chiefs Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jesse Gewer

17 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.

Squad

Zitha Kwinika 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 Kaizer Chiefs this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Kaizer Chiefs training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khanyisa Mayo 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.

Loan watch

Connor Jales has seen enough of KCB

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Kaizer Chiefs, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Inácio Miguel

A mark of 7.28, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings

Thabiso Monyane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Ramahlwe Furman: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Kaizer Chiefs

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Mamelodi Sundowns.

The dugout

Pule Mmodi left out for tactical reasons at Kaizer Chiefs

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Kaizer Chiefs Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Jesse Gewer out for 26 days

26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kaizer Chiefs lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Kaizer Chiefs bow out of the cup

Black Aces go through and Kaizer Chiefs go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Dillan Solomons goes up and wins it — 7.55

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.55 for the rest of it.

Market

Nkanyiso Shinga has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kaizer Chiefs they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Polokwane City tell Kaizer Chiefs: Simon Ramabu is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Kaizer Chiefs

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lebohang Maboe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Pule Mmodi 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.

Squad

Asanele Velebayi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Asanele Velebayi and Kaizer Chiefs agree another 4 years.

Squad

100 appearances for Nkosingiphile Ngcobo

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief

6 Edition

The Kaizer Chiefs Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jesse Gewer

33 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.

Transfer targets

Thulani Dala will not be coming to Kaizer Chiefs

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Free State Stars is saying, and nobody at Kaizer Chiefs is enjoying the guessing.

Market

Terms done: Shaun Els is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Jomo Cosmos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Kaizer Chiefs is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town tell Kaizer Chiefs: Morgan Dala is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 2 in, 27 out at Kaizer Chiefs

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 27 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

The step up is real for Imaad Hendricks

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Lebohang Maboe 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.

Squad

Khanyisa Mayo 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 Kaizer Chiefs this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mduduzi Shabalala

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mduduzi Shabalala, and the manager let it.

In brief

5 Edition

The Kaizer Chiefs Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Jesse Gewer damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 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

Nkanyiso Shinga has said yes to Jomo Cosmos

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Kaizer Chiefs have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

Kaizer Chiefs make their move for Thulani Dala

$4.6M on the table at Free State Stars. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Black Aces tell Kaizer Chiefs: Dean Phiri is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Fiacre Ntwari asks to leave Kaizer Chiefs

“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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Gastón Sirino yet — 7.87

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Kaizer Chiefs make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kaizer Chiefs have 4 straight wins of it.

Boardroom

Kaizer Chiefs go back to the board over Thulani Dala

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.7M — a club that wants Thulani Dala enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Sibongiseni Mthethwa 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 Kaizer Chiefs this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief