The Black Aces Herald
Match1 Jan 2029
Black Aces sink to position 14
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market1 Jan 2029
Kamohelo Mokotjo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Black Aces, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Black Aces
Mandla Khune and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match30 Dec 2028
Wandile Duba’s goal not enough for Black Aces
Wandile Duba scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Polokwane City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Mpho Mathebula 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 dugout1 Jan 2029
No hiding place for Kamohelo Mokotjo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kamohelo Mokotjo, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Ronwen Hlatshwayo to a room that had heard them before.
Market1 Jan 2029
Still no ink between Black Aces and Phila Dlamini
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Black Aces, another week without a signature from Phila Dlamini.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
Wandile Duba was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 11. 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.
In brief
- The dugout Black Aces pick somebody else ahead of Gift Lorch
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Kamohelo Mokotjo
- Squad Federico Bellucci still has not settled