Mandla Erasmus

Left Midfielder - Ajax Cape Town
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mandla Erasmus

3 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 terraces

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 dugout

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.

Match

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 ratings

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