The Ajax Cape Town Post
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Teboho Tau runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 83. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Ajax Cape Town
Position 15 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Ajax Cape Town
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market5 Oct 2026
Kermit Tau puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Ajax Cape Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town
Mandla Mphela 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.
In brief
- Match Ajax Cape Town come up short against Bloemfontein Celtic
- Squad The manager makes an example of Rivaldo Modiba
- Squad Khama Ngcobo left out for tactical reasons at Ajax Cape Town
- Market The Siyabonga Mabena question follows Ajax Cape Town around