The Kaizer Chiefs Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Portland Timbers come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kaizer Chiefs did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Lebohang Maboe
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kaizer Chiefs
Brandon Petersen 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Kaizer Chiefs
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mfundo Vilakazi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mfundo Vilakazi commits to Kaizer Chiefs for another 5 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kaizer Chiefs promote Percy Lorch from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Percy Lorch has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Kermit Grobler joins the Kaizer Chiefs first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kermit Grobler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andile Mokotjo steps up from the Kaizer Chiefs academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andile Mokotjo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kaizer Chiefs training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bradley Cross 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.
In brief
- Squad Mfundo Vilakazi gets it from the manager
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Bradley Cross
- Match Honours even between Kaizer Chiefs and Chippa United