The Black Aces Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Themba Zungu hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Black Aces can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ramahlwe Mkhize 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ronwen Hlatshwayo
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thamsanqa Vilakazi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Itumeleng Khune
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Thamsanqa Vilakazi
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Thamsanqa Vilakazi has come out of that comparison in the side, and Black Aces have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Percy Ngcobo keeps on missing
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Match5 Sep 2026
No goals between Black Aces and University of Pretoria
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. University of Pretoria will be the happier side with the point.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Percy Ngcobo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Black Aces know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Fabby Clark joins Black Aces to strengthen the squad
- Player ratings Off the pace: Itumeleng Khune
- Player ratings Keagan Mahlangu never got going