Themba Mkhize

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Marked for Themba Mkhize

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The Black Aces Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match19 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Black Aces

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Rivaldo Erasmus 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

3 matches without a goal for Black Aces

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

The afternoon belonged to Themba Mkhize

A mark of 7.55, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Williams Vilakazi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Lebogang Grobler on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No place for Ethan Chislett in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Black Aces are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Match19 Sep 2026

Black Aces draw a blank against Maritzburg United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Maritzburg United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Siyabonga Hlatshwayo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Black Aces, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Black Aces Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad10 Aug 2026

Williams Vilakazi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Williams Vilakazi and Black Aces agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Black Aces bid $100.0K for Tsiki Ntsabeleng

The offer went to Mamelodi Sundowns this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Black Aces

Rivaldo Erasmus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Black Aces

5 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

Williams Vilakazi 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.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Black Aces agree a free transfer for Tsiki Ntsabeleng

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Andile Mkhize was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Themba Mkhize

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Percy Zungu joins the Black Aces first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Percy Zungu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief