Marked for Teboho Jali
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thulani Hlatshwayo did not need any: 7.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market25 Jan 2027
Teboho Kekana has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ajax Cape Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match23 Jan 2027
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Hlompho Modiba 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Thulani 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
A 1‑0 win over Bidvest Wits, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
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Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
OH Leuven 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Maritzburg United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ajax Cape Town is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Ajax Cape Town offered $1.3M; Golden Arrows said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Dean Kekana
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ajax Cape Town have done the hard part with SuperSport United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bidvest Wits have kept their man, and Ajax Cape Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Solly Khunyedi. 2‑1 against Bloemfontein Celtic, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bidvest Wits waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ajax Cape Town is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ajax Cape Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$1.3M on the table at Golden Arrows. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Takalani Mazhamba is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bongani Modiba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hlompho Modiba commits to Ajax Cape Town for another 5 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Wandile Duba 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.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ajax Cape Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A move Sfundo Nzama would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sfundo Nzama is living that version at Ajax Cape Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bongani Modiba 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match2 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Black Aces, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sfundo Nzama and Ajax Cape Town agree another 3 years.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Rivaldo Mokotjo to a room that had heard them before.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bongani Modiba 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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 ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Solly Khunyedi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Free State Stars, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Thato Mokeke
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market28 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Siyabonga Williams’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Market14 Dec 2026
Teboho Kekana has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ajax Cape Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Andile Hlatshwayo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Teboho Jali and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Solly Khunyedi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Wandile Duba at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ajax Cape Town.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.06, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Rivaldo Mokotjo kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match2 Dec 2026
Out, 1‑1 to Orlando Pirates, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Thulani 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of S'fiso Hlanti
“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.
Match2 Dec 2026
Level with 117 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Ajax Cape Town had all but put away. Orlando Pirates will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Cohen Stander 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Chippa United were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.50, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Solly Khunyedi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Morgan Mokotjo is on it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 48. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ajax Cape Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match14 Nov 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ajax Cape Town are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Nov 2026
4 matches without a goal for Ajax Cape Town
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bongani Modiba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
Kaizer Chiefs left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Teboho Jali 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bongani Modiba
“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.
Match16 Nov 2026
Half the programme played, position 9, 17 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Teboho Jali 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Solly Khunyedi 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simphiwe Mtsweni and Ajax Cape Town agree another 2 years.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Thulani Hlatshwayo
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Thulani Hlatshwayo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ajax Cape Town have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Ajax Cape Town take on the side everybody is chasing
Mamelodi Sundowns arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
SuperSport United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Siphisihle Zitho 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Rivaldo Mokotjo to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
S'fiso Hlanti dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Solly Khunyedi has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Thulani Hlatshwayo, 17, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Ajax Cape Town would like this to lead.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Mandla Kekana gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mandla Kekana is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andile Hlatshwayo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cohen Stander 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Solly Khunyedi 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.08 — 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Bidvest Wits scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Ajax Cape Town
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ajax Cape Town may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Cohen Stander 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Bloemfontein Celtic left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
The 2-goal deficit was real and so was the recovery. Siyabonga Williams was at the centre of it, Black Aces were at the end of it, and everybody who left early will hear about this one for years.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Williams Jali at 17 — 8.31
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Williams Jali did not need any: 8.31, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ajax Cape Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Black Aces, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Teboho Jali was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.27. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Solly Khunyedi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bongani Modiba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
Platinum Stars will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ajax Cape Town were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ajax Cape Town have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Thulani Hlatshwayo did not need any: 8.22, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$78.0K 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Teboho Jali 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town asked and Young Boys said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Thulani 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
Teboho Kekana 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Kaizer Chiefs, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Cohen Stander and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Wandile Duba. 2‑1 against University of Pretoria, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Wandile Duba 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Orlando Pirates: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$1.6M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.6M sale of Thamsanqa Zwane
He is going to SuperSport United, the club has $1.6M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to SuperSport United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bongani Modiba 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$110.0K was the most the club would pay and Mamelodi Sundowns were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Teboho Jali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town asked and Hull City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ajax Cape Town have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Samkelo Dlamuka is in the works
Ajax Cape Town have made the call to Golden Arrows. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Siyabonga Williams trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Teboho Kekana has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ajax Cape Town.
Market3 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Ajax Cape Town
S'fiso Hlanti arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.