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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Morgan Zwane: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ajax Cape Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Mar 2027
The offer from Charlotte Football Club for Sifiso Mphela 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Njabulo Blom 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.
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Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Njabulo Blom in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ajax Cape Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luther Billiat 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
7.25, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Ajax Cape Town had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luther Ngcobo named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Luther Ngcobo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Cleitinho
“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.