The Ajax Cape Town Post
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Erick Khune
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match8 Sep 2027
Ajax Cape Town bow out of the cup
Polokwane City go through and Ajax Cape Town go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Thulani Erasmus is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Thulani Erasmus: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Sifiso Williams, 34, rolls back the years — 8.72
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.72 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Siphelele Mthembu 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Farruhjon Qodirov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Farruhjon Qodirov has just signed for Ajax Cape Town, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Andile Phiri 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.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Percy Mothiba counts the days
“I watch every Ajax Cape Town game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at AFC Leopards runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
The crowd has taken to Lwanda Mbanjwa
At 21 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.
In brief
- Match Ajax Cape Town find a way past Free State Stars
- Player ratings One of those days for Angelo Van Rooi
- Player ratings Williams Mahlangu misses from twelve yards