The Black Aces Herald
Match15 Aug 2026
Black Aces taken apart
1‑5 to SuperSport United, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hlompho Khune 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 The request is on a desk at Black Aces, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Emmanuel Jalai rejects the move
Black Aces had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Maritzburg United, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Black Aces
Evidence Mothiba 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Black Aces and SuperSport United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kagiso Malinga 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Mamelodi Sundowns tell Black Aces: Matías Esquivel is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Luther Lorch 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Kagiso Malinga in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Black Aces are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Black Aces dressing room in a hurry
- Market Black Aces and Thulani Mabaso are talking past each other
- Squad 7 new faces, and Black Aces are still learning each other