Gift Williams

Right Wingback - Black Aces
22 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Gift Williams

13 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Evidence Kekana damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Gift Williams keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Black Aces may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Zuko Mdunyelwa 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Black Aces

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Black Aces can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Black Aces

Gift Mabunda 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Luke Baartman

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

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ronwen Grobler is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ronwen Grobler: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

The cup run ends for Black Aces

1‑1 against Kaizer Chiefs, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

A brace, and Williams Tau takes the afternoon — 8.14

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Williams Tau provided it, and the 8.14 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Zuko Mdunyelwa 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Black Aces

Gift Mabunda 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.

Player ratings

Gift Mabunda misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Zuko Mdunyelwa's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match

Black Aces share the spoils with Maritzburg United

A 2‑2 draw with Maritzburg United leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Siyabonga Jali 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.

In brief