Marked for Bradley Zwane
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Bradley Zwane out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SuperSport United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Ramahlwe Jali has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around SuperSport United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andile Khune and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ajax Cape Town left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ramahlwe Jali
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
30 days out for Bradley Zwane after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SuperSport United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Ramahlwe Dolly
12 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Siyanda Khumalo
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Bidvest Wits scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
40 days out for Bradley Zwane after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SuperSport United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Ramahlwe Dolly takes the afternoon — 9.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ramahlwe Dolly provided it, and the 9.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SuperSport United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 2‑0 win over Golden Arrows, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nkanyiso Madonsela 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to May Mahlangu, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Erick Mabunda
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sifiso Hlatshwayo kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
The match ball belongs to Ramahlwe Dolly, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bradley Zwane breaks a bone — 48 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Oct 2026
Thulani Zwane has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around SuperSport United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match3 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between SuperSport United and Free State Stars, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andile Khune and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ramahlwe Manyama has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bradley Zwane breaks a bone — 57 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SuperSport United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Ramahlwe Jali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramahlwe Jali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SuperSport United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑3 to Platinum Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andile Khune and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bradley Zwane breaks a bone — 65 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” USM Alger had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Andile Khune at his very best
Marked 8.48. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SuperSport United.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andile Khune 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 SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erick Mabunda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
The match ball belongs to Ramahlwe Dolly, whose 5 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match9 Sep 2026
A 6‑4 win over Jomo Cosmos, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Bradley Zwane out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SuperSport United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Andile Khune had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
$2.5M was the most the club would pay and Mamelodi Sundowns were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match12 Sep 2026
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match9 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between SuperSport United and Jomo Cosmos, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Ramahlwe Dolly at his very best
Marked 9.88. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SuperSport United.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
81 days out for Bradley Zwane after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SuperSport United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
SuperSport United have gone to Mamelodi Sundowns with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at SuperSport United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gosiame Ngobeni gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gosiame Ngobeni has just signed for SuperSport United, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and SuperSport United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nkanyiso Madonsela and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bradley Zwane breaks a bone — 89 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Ramahlwe Jali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramahlwe Jali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SuperSport United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: JS Kabylie have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andile Khune. The answer from SuperSport United has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Chippa United keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$640.0K was the most the club would pay and University of Pretoria were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Platinum Stars have kept their man, and SuperSport United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
96 days out for Bradley Zwane after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SuperSport United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match22 Aug 2026
1‑4 to Bloemfontein Celtic, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
SuperSport United have gone to University of Pretoria with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market24 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Luther Kekana
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luther Kekana will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around SuperSport United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. University of Pretoria have kept their man, and SuperSport United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Bradley Zwane out for 103 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SuperSport United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Platinum Stars waiting with a shirt. Nobody at SuperSport United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Sipho Mbule would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sipho Mbule is living that version at SuperSport United, and it tends to show in the first month.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Mandla Hlatshwayo was one of the reasons people came, and $7.7M does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ajax Cape Town have kept their man, and SuperSport United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Siyabonga Mphela, and the manager let it.