Dean Lorch

Striker - Ajax Cape Town
31 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dean Lorch

12 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Teboho Tau

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No end in sight to Ajax Cape Town's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ajax Cape Town has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Luther Ngcobo 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 The request is on a desk at Ajax Cape Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Ajax Cape Town

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gigli Ndefe 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ajax Cape Town against Jomo Cosmos

0‑1 to Jomo Cosmos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Luther Ngcobo

34 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 ratings

Teboho Tau runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Mandla Jali 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 The request is on a desk at Ajax Cape Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

The Ajax Cape Town board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Market

Ajax Cape Town say no — this time

The offer from Sturm Graz for Morgan Mokoena was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

The Jomo Cosmos deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Dean Lorch reports back to Ajax Cape Town with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gigli Ndefe 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.

Match

Ajax Cape Town come up short against Maritzburg United

Maritzburg United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Luther Ngcobo

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Luther Ngcobo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ajax Cape Town have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

5 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Luther Ngcobo damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.

Market

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.

Market

Ramahlwe Jali 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Teboho Tau

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Ajax Cape Town come up short against Platinum Stars

Platinum Stars left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Themba Kekana gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief