Morgan Modiba

Left Wingback - Ajax Cape Town
23 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Morgan Modiba

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lecce 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.

Player ratings

Khama Furman, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Andile Dolly 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.

Squad

Sifiso Grobler out for 38 days

The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Sifiso Grobler, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town

Sifiso Grobler 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.

Squad

Bongani Mokotjo 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 Santiago López

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Khama Furman

At 19 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.

Match

The drought breaks for Ajax Cape Town

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Free State Stars were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

In brief

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Evidence Vilakazi

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Rivaldo Furman 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax Cape Town

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

Squad

Marko Veselinović gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marko Veselinović has just signed for Ajax Cape Town, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Bongani Mokotjo 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.

Match

SuperSport United take the points off Ajax Cape Town

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Gift Ngcobo left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Evidence Vilakazi 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 Evidence Vilakazi is on it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Simphiwe Mtsweni

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Kano Pillars 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.

Squad

Evidence Vilakazi stands alone

6 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.

Boardroom

Ajax Cape Town go back to the board over Itumeleng Mothiba

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $80.0K — a club that wants Itumeleng Mothiba enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax Cape Town

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

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town make their move for Itumeleng Mothiba

$77.0K on the table at Free State Stars. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Justine Mthwane at that price

Ajax Cape Town offered $140.0K; 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Ajax Cape Town

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

The terraces

One of their own: Khama Furman

He is 19 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bongani Mokotjo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bongani Mokotjo, and the manager let it.

In brief