The Ajax Cape Town Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rivaldo Zwane, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82
A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ajax Cape Town
Kermit Mokotjo 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $160.0K for Asanele Velebayi
Ajax Cape Town have gone to Kaizer Chiefs with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town bid $25.0K for Alwande Booysen
The offer went to Golden Arrows this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Free State Stars tell Ajax Cape Town: Ronwen 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Rivaldo Zwane sends Ajax Cape Town past Chippa United
It finished 1‑0, and it was Rivaldo Zwane’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ajax Cape Town.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Sifiso Grobler
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sifiso Grobler, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Andile Jali in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Ajax Cape Town are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Daylon Claasen runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Keagan Modiba signs on for more
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Ajax Cape Town pick somebody else ahead of Dean Manyama