Keagan Mkhize

Left Forward - Bloemfontein Celtic U18
11 Jul 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Keagan Mkhize

4 Edition

The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bloemfontein Celtic come from 2 down to beat SuperSport United

At 2 goals adrift this was a formality, and the formality lasted right up until it did not. Bloemfontein Celtic found something the first half had given no notice of, and SuperSport United could not hold what they had.

Player ratings

Both of them Lebogang Zwane's — 8.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Rivaldo Mabunda asks to leave Bloemfontein Celtic

“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.

Match

Bloemfontein Celtic make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bloemfontein Celtic have 3 straight wins of it.

Match

Lebogang Zwane the difference as Bloemfontein Celtic beat SuperSport United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lebogang Zwane. 3‑2 against SuperSport United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Andile Mphela 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic

Dean Mabunda 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Thulani Manyama

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thulani Manyama, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Rivaldo Jali was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Bloemfontein Celtic say no — this time

The offer from Maritzburg United for Hlompho Mokotjo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic

Erick Hlatshwayo 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.

Match

Bloemfontein Celtic get the job done against Bidvest Wits

A 2‑1 win over Bidvest Wits, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Ronwen Grobler 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 ratings

The afternoon belonged to Rivaldo Jali

7.94, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bloemfontein Celtic had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market

Tusker are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bloemfontein Celtic will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Talks stall between Bloemfontein Celtic and Naphtali Mokoena

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Thulani Dolly 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.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Ronwen Grobler

Nobody at Bloemfontein Celtic is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief