Bantu Chingi

Attacking Midfielder (C) - University of Pretoria
20 Mar 2027
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Marked for Bantu Chingi

28 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for University of Pretoria

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market8 Feb 2027

Athenkosi Tonisi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at University of Pretoria is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Samuel Julies 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words at University of Pretoria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Veli Mothwa 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.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Nobody could get near Onele Rulwana

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch8 Feb 2027

Jordan Allies has seen enough of SuperSport United

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at University of Pretoria, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.

The terraces8 Feb 2027

The crowd has taken to Raymond Matlamela

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A muscle injury sidelines Luke Daniels for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. University of Pretoria will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Raymond Matlamela stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 6.99 on the card, and the University of Pretoria support went home talking about one name.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Dec 2026

Samuel Julies 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at University of Pretoria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Veli Mothwa 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

Bloemfontein Celtic take the points off University of Pretoria

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad28 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Abubeker Nasir

“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.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Lesego Sebetlela turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. University of Pretoria deserved better, and so did he.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Wages eat 90% of everything University of Pretoria earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

3 Edition

The University of Pretoria Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Aug 2026

3 goals for Prince Nxumalo

The match ball belongs to Prince Nxumalo, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Prince Nxumalo yet — 9.14

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Veli Mothwa 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 University of Pretoria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match15 Aug 2026

University of Pretoria find a way past Polokwane City

Polokwane City made University of Pretoria work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Abubeker Nasir

“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.

Match15 Aug 2026

University of Pretoria settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Polokwane City spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Thando Buthelezi 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

No place for Riyaaz Ismail in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Riyaaz Ismail has his answer from University of Pretoria; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Bantu Chingi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief