Percy Khune

Striker - Black Aces
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Percy Khune

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The Black Aces Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Luther Ngcobo 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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Takalani Mazhamba

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Black Aces have done the hard part with Kaizer Chiefs, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

4 matches without a win for Black Aces

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Black Aces are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Black Aces

Ronwen Jali 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.

Squad

Ntsikelelo Nyauza 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Morgan Lorch

“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.

Match

Polokwane City take the points off Black Aces

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Mandla Modiba to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Percy Khune

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief