The Ajax Cape Town Post
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Teboho Tau
Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Luther Ngcobo damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Match22 Aug 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 91th minute. University of Pretoria will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Siyabonga Mabena at 19 — 7.93
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Siyabonga Mabena did not need any: 7.93, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
Teboho Phiri 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Khama Ngcobo 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Siyabonga Mabena sends Ajax Cape Town past University of Pretoria
It finished 2‑1, and it was Siyabonga Mabena’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ajax Cape Town.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town supporters have found a favourite in Siyabonga Mabena
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Siyabonga Mabena 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Evidence Mahlangu
“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.
In brief
- Market Ramahlwe Modiba told to find a new club
- Squad A Ajax Cape Town teenager takes the young player award
- Market The Thamsanqa Zungu talk will not go away