Themba Dala

Left Midfielder - Black Aces
31 Jan 2027
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Marked for Themba Dala

25 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Both of them Rivaldo Kekana's — 9.12

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market18 Jan 2027

Itumeleng Grobler asks to leave Black Aces

“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 ratings18 Jan 2027

Teboho Grobler runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Rivaldo Kekana is carrying Black Aces

21 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Eric Bile is a medical away from Black Aces

The deal with Ludogorets is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Themba Dala signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Themba Dala and Black Aces agree another 3 years.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Teboho Dolly 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 Black Aces this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Thamsanqa Lorch 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.

Match16 Jan 2027

Rivaldo Kekana sends Black Aces past Jomo Cosmos

It finished 2‑1, and it was Rivaldo Kekana’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Black Aces.

In brief

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24 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market11 Jan 2027

Thamsanqa Lorch 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 Black Aces can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Rivaldo Kekana is carrying Black Aces

19 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Thamsanqa Lorch 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 Black Aces this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match9 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Black Aces against Bloemfontein Celtic

1‑3 to Bloemfontein Celtic, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Door shut on Eric Bile

Black Aces asked and Ludogorets said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Themba Dala 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.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Teboho Dolly

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch11 Jan 2027

Kermit Grobler wants to come home

“I did not go to Gor Mahia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Black Aces and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 20 matches say the rest.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Morgan Phiri to a room that had heard them before.

In brief