Morgan Mkhize

Left Midfielder - Ajax Cape Town
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Morgan Mkhize

5 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Dean Mkhize out for 125 days

125 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ajax Cape Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Percy Phiri sold

SuperSport United arrived with $770.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Market

Sifiso Mahlangu 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.

Market

Ajax Cape Town say no — this time

The offer from Aalborg for Thulani Jali was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Morgan Mkhize runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

A $770.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Percy Phiri has gone, the accounts have $770.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Ajax Cape Town — 7.83

1 for Bradley Khune, marked 7.83, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Boardroom

Ajax Cape Town go back to the board over Nkosingiphile Ngcobo

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.6M — a club that wants Nkosingiphile Ngcobo enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town

Keagan Manyama 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Morgan Mkhize beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 43. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Dean Mkhize damages knee ligaments — 133 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 133 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town make their move for Nkosingiphile Ngcobo

$2.5M on the table at Kaizer Chiefs. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

SuperSport United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Ajax Cape Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Hlompho Mabunda hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ajax Cape Town can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Ajax Cape Town make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ajax Cape Town have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax Cape Town

Williams Mabunda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Ajax Cape Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bradley Khune was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ronwen Lorch

Ajax Cape Town asked and Platinum Stars said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

3 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo sold, and an era ends

$14.9M from Sheffield United for Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Market

Ajax Cape Town break the bank for Morgan Lorch

$500.0K. No player has ever cost Ajax Cape Town more, and expectation arrives with him.

Player ratings

Teboho Mokotjo could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.67

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.67, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

The terraces

Ajax Cape Town sell a favourite for $14.9M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo was one of the reasons people came, and $14.9M does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings

Morgan Mkhize was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Thulani Jali attracts admirers

The name of Thulani Jali has come up in conversations Ajax Cape Town were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mfundo Vilakazi

Ajax Cape Town asked and Kaizer Chiefs said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Lwanda Mbanjwa

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ajax Cape Town have done the hard part with Golden Arrows, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town

Williams Mabunda 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Ajax Cape Town turn down Rio Ave for Thulani Jali

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town agree $500.0K for Morgan Lorch

The clubs have shaken hands with SuperSport United; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Morgan Mkhize

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.5M for Kutlwano Letlhaku

Ajax Cape Town have gone to Mamelodi Sundowns with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo and Ajax Cape Town agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Williams Mabunda 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ajax Cape Town

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Bradley Khune 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 terraces

Ajax Cape Town supporters have found a favourite in Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ramahlwe Hlatshwayo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief