Thulani Mkhize

Central Defender - Black Aces
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Thulani Mkhize

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The Black Aces Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Black Aces win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Mamelodi Sundowns will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Ramahlwe Ngcobo 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.

Transfer targets

Black Aces rebuffed over Tashreeq Morris

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kaizer Chiefs have kept their man, and Black Aces go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Luther Modiba sends Black Aces past Mamelodi Sundowns

It finished 1‑0, and it was Luther Modiba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Black Aces.

Player ratings

Luther Modiba stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.45 on the card, and the Black Aces support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Black Aces are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

A satisfied Thulani Hlatshwayo

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Thulani Hlatshwayo could afford to be generous.

Squad

A row about effort at Black Aces

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andile Mokoena was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Black Aces pick somebody else ahead of Thulani Mkhize

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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The Black Aces Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Solly Khunyedi scored one and made one — 7.91

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.91, and 2 involvements.

Transfer targets

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.

Match

Solly Khunyedi the difference as Black Aces beat SuperSport United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Solly Khunyedi. 2‑1 against SuperSport United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A falling-out at Black Aces

Thulani Mahlangu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Lebogang Mothiba at his very best

Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Black Aces.

Squad

Solly Khunyedi is a square peg at Black Aces

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Tashreeq Morris is in the works

Black Aces have made the call to Kaizer Chiefs. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Thulani Hlatshwayo has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Thulani Hlatshwayo on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Thulani Mkhize dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief