The Black Aces Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Itumeleng Manyama
Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Inter Miami CF deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Lebogang Furman reports back to Black Aces with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gor Mahia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Black Aces did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andile Furman attracts admirers
The name of Andile Furman has come up in conversations Black Aces were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andile Furman signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andile Furman commits to Black Aces for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andile Furman 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Black Aces
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lebogang Furman 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Siyabonga Dala joins the Black Aces first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Siyabonga Dala is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Bidvest Wits take the points off Black Aces
- Squad Bongani Mokotjo falls out with a teammate over standards
- Boardroom Black Aces turn down the training-ground plan