Erick Mokotjo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ajax Cape Town U18
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Marked for Erick Mokotjo

64 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match16 Oct 2027

Hlompho Khune leads the rout of Jomo Cosmos

3‑0, and Hlompho Khune took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ajax Cape Town tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Erick Mokotjo breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

The game went through Samkelo Dlamuka — 6.85

Marked 6.85 on 23 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match16 Oct 2027

10 unbeaten for Ajax Cape Town

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Ajax Cape Town did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

No sign of nerves from Gift Zungu at 21 — 7.92

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gift Zungu did not need any: 7.92, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town

Bruce Bvuma 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.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Real improvement from Muhammad Bower at Ajax Cape Town

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Muhammad Bower is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Words at Ajax Cape Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hlompho Khune 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.

The terraces18 Oct 2027

The crowd has taken to Samkelo Dlamuka

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

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63 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad11 Oct 2027

Erick Mokotjo breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Gift Zungu scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Samkelo Mzolo: 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.

Match9 Oct 2027

9 unbeaten for Ajax Cape Town

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Ajax Cape Town did not have in the autumn.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Bruce Bvuma 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.

Match9 Oct 2027

Gift Zungu among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Gift Zungu on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ajax Cape Town and Bidvest Wits.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Hlompho Khune 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.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

One of those days for Hlompho Khune

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match9 Oct 2027

Ajax Cape Town and Bidvest Wits take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

62 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market4 Oct 2027

Keagan Hlatshwayo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ajax Cape Town can pretend not to have heard.

Squad4 Oct 2027

A fracture rules Erick Mokotjo out for 36 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ajax Cape Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

A brace, and Lebogang Mahlangu takes the afternoon — 8.61

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lebogang Mahlangu provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings4 Oct 2027

Gift Zungu, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83

A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Ronaldo Mejía: 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.

Match2 Oct 2027

Whatever happens, Ajax Cape Town do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town

Hlompho Khune 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.

Match2 Oct 2027

Lebogang Mahlangu among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Lebogang Mahlangu on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ajax Cape Town and Bloemfontein Celtic.

Match2 Oct 2027

Lebogang Mahlangu the difference as Ajax Cape Town beat Bloemfontein Celtic

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lebogang Mahlangu. 4‑2 against Bloemfontein Celtic, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief