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Marked for Hlompho Dala

14 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad2 Nov 2026

The knee: Hlompho Dala out for 18 days

18 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Hlompho Phiri is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.70 with 27 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Agustín Cortez stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match31 Oct 2026

Ajax Cape Town win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Orlando Pirates will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Match2 Nov 2026

Ajax Cape Town up to position 2

36 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match31 Oct 2026

Ajax Cape Town cannot stop winning

4 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín Cortez 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Hlompho Phiri sends Ajax Cape Town past Orlando Pirates

It finished 2‑1, and it was Hlompho Phiri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ajax Cape Town.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

Ajax Cape Town supporters have found a favourite in Agustín Cortez

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Agustín Cortez 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

  • Looking ahead Top-of-the-table clash for Ajax Cape Town
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Hlompho Phiri
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
13 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad26 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hlompho Dala

25 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 ratings26 Oct 2026

Bradley Erasmus was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Another one collected away from home

6 on the bounce on the road for Ajax Cape Town. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match24 Oct 2026

Nobody wants to play Ajax Cape Town right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Teboho Khune is carrying Ajax Cape Town

12 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad26 Oct 2026

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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town

Happy Mashiane 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.

The terraces26 Oct 2026

Ajax Cape Town supporters have found a favourite in Percy Vilakazi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Percy Vilakazi 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Ajax Cape Town find a way past SuperSport United

SuperSport United made Ajax Cape Town work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

12 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad19 Oct 2026

The knee: Hlompho Dala out for 33 days

33 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Hlompho Phiri is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.72 with 26 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match17 Oct 2026

Teboho Khune leads the rout of Jomo Cosmos

4‑0, and Teboho Khune took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ajax Cape Town tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad19 Oct 2026

3 goals for Teboho Khune

The match ball belongs to Teboho Khune, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Percy Vilakazi

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

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

One of those days for Teboho Khune

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.91, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

A masterclass from Hlompho Phiri

Marked 9.51 — 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Siphosakhe Ntiya-Ntiya stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Siphosakhe Ntiya-Ntiya and Ajax Cape Town agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The terraces19 Oct 2026

One of their own: Wandile Duba

He is 22 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