Andile Hlatshwayo

Goalkeeper - Ajax Cape Town
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andile Hlatshwayo

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Akinkunmi Amoo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town

Thamsanqa Zwane 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

A muscle injury sidelines Romario Dlamini for 15 days

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

Squad

Andile Hlatshwayo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

The manager makes an example of May Mahlangu

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ajax Cape Town against Golden Arrows

0‑1 to Golden Arrows, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Teboho Dolly

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ajax Cape Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

A brace, and Akinkunmi Amoo takes the afternoon — 8.17

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Akinkunmi Amoo provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Thamsanqa Zwane keeps Ajax Cape Town in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Andile Hlatshwayo asks to leave Ajax Cape Town

“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.

Squad

Akinkunmi Amoo 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 Ajax Cape Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Ajax Cape Town see off Platinum Stars

Three points for Ajax Cape Town, 4‑3 the final word against Platinum Stars in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Akinkunmi Amoo among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Akinkunmi Amoo on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ajax Cape Town and Platinum Stars.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rivaldo Mokotjo

Marked 8.75 — 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 ratings

Gift Zwane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief