Thulani Ngcobo

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Marked for Thulani Ngcobo

14 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Gift Zungu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market2 Nov 2026

Morgan Dala asks to leave Black Aces

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Gift Zungu 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Black Aces find a way past Platinum Stars

Platinum Stars made Black Aces work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

Black Aces supporters have found a favourite in Luther Erasmus

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Luther Erasmus 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Morgan Dala 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.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Luther Erasmus takes the honours

Marked 7.86 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Black Aces had the best player on the pitch.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Morgan Dala is still paying for one afternoon at Black Aces

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Thulani Ngcobo

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Thulani Ngcobo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Black Aces have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market19 Oct 2026

Sifiso Furman asks to leave Black Aces

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Gift Zungu 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Morgan Dala 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Kaizer Chiefs take the points off Black Aces

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Thulani Ngcobo 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Williams Mphela 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

11 Edition

The Black Aces Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Oct 2026

Andile Mabunda 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Black Aces — 7.11

1 for Thulani Ngcobo, marked 7.11, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match10 Oct 2026

Black Aces come up short against Orlando Pirates

Orlando Pirates left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Black Aces training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gift Zungu 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Williams Mphela

“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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Black Aces

Sifiso Mphela was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief