Dean Ngcobo

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bradley Dala

55 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 ratings1 Mar 2027

Justine Mthwane, 19, steals the show — 8.26

Marked 8.26 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match27 Feb 2027

6 unbeaten for Ajax Cape Town

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Ajax Cape Town did not have in the autumn.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Dean Lorch 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.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town

Gift Ngcobo 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 terraces1 Mar 2027

One of their own: Justine Mthwane

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.

Match27 Feb 2027

Ajax Cape Town get the job done against SuperSport United

A 1‑0 win over SuperSport United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Mercury Dlamini signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mercury Dlamini commits to Ajax Cape Town for another 3 years.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

A satisfied Erick Williams

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Erick Williams could afford to be generous.

In brief

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Abdoulaye Mariko arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Abdoulaye Mariko has, at Ajax Cape Town, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market12 Oct 2026

Only the photograph left for Evidence Khune

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Evidence Khune will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ajax Cape Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Ramahlwe Modiba at Ajax Cape Town

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ramahlwe Modiba is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Ajax Cape Town

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

Squad12 Oct 2026

Abdoulaye Mariko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdoulaye Mariko and Ajax Cape Town agree another 4 years.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

A promise honoured for Divine Lunga

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ajax Cape Town told Divine Lunga something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market12 Oct 2026

Dean Ngcobo told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dean Ngcobo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ajax Cape Town.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Luther Lorch question follows Ajax Cape Town around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luther Lorch’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Ronwen Mothiba knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ajax Cape Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Ajax Cape Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market31 Aug 2026

Ajax Cape Town break the bank for Ntando Ngwenya

$140.0K. No player has ever cost Ajax Cape Town more, and expectation arrives with him.

Match29 Aug 2026

Nowhere to hide for Ajax Cape Town

0‑3 against Platinum Stars, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market31 Aug 2026

Terms done: Evidence Khune is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Jomo Cosmos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ajax Cape Town is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bloemfontein Celtic 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Dean Ngcobo 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

4 matches without a win for Ajax Cape Town

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ajax Cape Town are no longer polite ones.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Ajax Cape Town

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

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Too dear: Ajax Cape Town walk away from Siphelele Mthembu

$82.0K was the most the club would pay and Maritzburg United 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.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

$140.0K for Ntando Ngwenya, and Ajax Cape Town supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ntando Ngwenya from Golden Arrows for $140.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

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