Teboho Grobler

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Ajax Cape Town tear Black Aces apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Black Aces, and it could have been more.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Hlompho Phiri

22 goals and a season average of 7.55 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Hlompho Phiri takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Ajax Cape Town and Black Aces in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

Hlompho Phiri was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.73. 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.

Squad

Agustín Cortez 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.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town rebuffed over Ognjen Lukić

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Javor-Matis have kept their man, and Ajax Cape Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town

Happy Mashiane and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

One of their own: Percy Vilakazi

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief