The Mamelodi Sundowns Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Teboho Mokoena puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mamelodi Sundowns, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mamelodi Sundowns turn down Krasnodar for Khuliso Mudau
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms done: Jody February is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rangers International waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mamelodi Sundowns is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 34 gone
That is the business done at Mamelodi Sundowns until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Teboho Mokoena 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 Mamelodi Sundowns this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Thapelo Morena 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Bathusi Aubaas
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Themba Zwane
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Themba Zwane has come out of that comparison in the side, and Mamelodi Sundowns have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
AFC Leopards are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Mamelodi Sundowns will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Squad A promotion for Malibongwe Khoza
- The dugout Bennet Mokoena knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Mamelodi Sundowns