23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process
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The Ajax Cape Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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 targets

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.

Match

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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

Back issues
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The Ajax Cape Town Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Ajax Cape Town sell their best player to FC Midtjylland

$4.4M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market

Kermit Mokotjo asks to leave Ajax Cape Town

“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.

Market

Not going: Rivaldo Zwane stays at Ajax Cape Town

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Torpedo Kutaisi had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Ajax Cape Town turn down FC Copenhagen for Kermit Mokotjo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Rivaldo Zwane scores twice — 8.52

Two goals and a mark of 8.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $4.4M sale of Kermit Mokotjo

He is going to FC Midtjylland, the club has $4.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets

Tiago Gabriel turns down Ajax Cape Town

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Lecce keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Kermit Mokotjo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kermit Mokotjo commits to Ajax Cape Town for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Ajax Cape Town

Themba Dolly and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

1 Edition

The Ajax Cape Town Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ajax Cape Town turn down Hearts of Oak for Rivaldo Zwane

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Kermit Mokotjo wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ajax Cape Town hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town

Kermit Mokotjo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Kermit Mokotjo 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.

Market

Eyes on Itumeleng Kekana again

The phone has started ringing about Itumeleng Kekana again, and this time the name on the line is Hearts of Oak. Ajax Cape Town are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town try to borrow Zuko Mdunyelwa

Mamelodi Sundowns have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Tiago Gabriel is in the works

Ajax Cape Town have made the call to Lecce. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Kermit Mokotjo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ajax Cape Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Bradley Mphela is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ajax Cape Town has been clear about where Bradley Mphela stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief