Gift Mkhize

Central Midfielder - AS Bakaridjan
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9 Edition

The AS Bakaridjan Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ace Sali damages knee ligaments — 139 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 139 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Gundo Nkoana at AS Bakaridjan

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gundo Nkoana is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Aboubacar Haïdara 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 AS Bakaridjan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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8 Edition

The Free State Stars Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

No sign of nerves from Bradley Kekana at 21 — 8.07

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bradley Kekana did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match19 Sep 2026

Free State Stars make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Free State Stars have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Bongani Modiba 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 Free State Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match19 Sep 2026

Thamsanqa Mokoena sends Free State Stars past Golden Arrows

It finished 2‑1, and it was Thamsanqa Mokoena’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Free State Stars.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

Free State Stars supporters have found a favourite in Bradley Kekana

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Bradley Kekana has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Thabiso Sesane 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Golden Arrows blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Golden Arrows tried to reorganise, Free State Stars did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Khama Mabunda 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Thamsanqa Mokoena

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief