The Ajax Cape Town Post
Market17 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town say no — this time
The offer from SuperSport United for Gift Mothiba 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Krasnodar watching Mandla Jali
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ajax Cape Town have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Free State Stars tell Ajax Cape Town: Khama Erasmus is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Morgan Dolly 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Erick Mkhize 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
One of their own: Cemran Dansin
He is 21 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Morgan Dolly 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Mandla Jali sends Ajax Cape Town past Chippa United
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mandla Jali’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ajax Cape Town.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mandla Jali was the difference for Ajax Cape Town
Marked 7.83. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Jeremías Merlo is in the works
- Squad Mandla Erasmus signs on for more
- The dugout The manager’s verdict