The Orlando Pirates Chronicle
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Orlando Pirates
The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match7 Nov 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for Orlando Pirates
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Kaizer Chiefs kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Orlando Pirates will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Orlando Pirates
Oswin Appollis 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Deon Hotto 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Andre de Jong runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Tshepang Moremi
Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Oswin Appollis at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Orlando Pirates.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Patrick Maswanganyi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs take a point apiece
It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Cemran Dansin
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Sipho Chaine
- Squad When it matters, Kabelo Dlamini plays