{"id":84860,"date":"2025-10-15T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=84860"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:14:12","slug":"ten-new-faces-in-titans-khaya-majola-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=84860","title":{"rendered":"Ten new faces in Titans\u2019 Khaya Majola squad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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XANDER VENTER, captain of Ho\u00ebrskool Garsfontein, celebrates a crucial wicket against Affies in the Switch Schools SA20 earlier in 2025. PHOTO: Frans Lombard\/Acctionpix.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Titans<\/strong> have announced their squad participating in the 2025 Khaya Majola Week<\/strong>, from 16 to 21 December in the City of Roses, Bloemfontein<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The side from the Jacaranda City, boasting some of the top talent in the country, features an exciting mix of young talent and experience, although only three players from last year’s squad return.<\/p>\n

Atteridgeville<\/strong> will be eagerly supporting Tshepang Laka<\/strong> in his second appearance at the prestigious week, while Laudium<\/strong> and Prestige College<\/strong>, respectively, have Mahommad Borabat<\/strong> and Ditebogo Chauke<\/strong> returning to the set-up. The rest of the 13-man squad are all new faces, although the inclusion of Garsfontein<\/strong>‘s dangerous duo, Xander Venter<\/strong> and Reuben van Zyl<\/strong>, comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n

Van Zyl has been leading the run scoring charts in the Titans Platinum League <\/strong>this year, while Venter has consistently knocked on the door since u16. Venter will likely play an integral part in the leadership corps of the side too, having led the Ysbere over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof<\/strong>, one of Pretoria’s biggest cricketing factories, also has two representatives. Most notably, the wicketkeeper-batsman Rico van der Walt<\/strong> graduates from last year’s CSA u16 National Week<\/strong>, with the ever-impressive Darius Maritz<\/strong> joining him from the Blou Tornado.<\/p>\n

Another graduate from last year’s u16 Week is Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebr Seunskool<\/strong>‘s Vihan Pretorius<\/strong>, also not a surprise inclusion as he already represented the South African u19<\/strong> side in Zimbabwe earlier this year at the young age of 17. He is Affies’ sole representative.<\/p>\n

Alongside Chauke, Prestige College<\/strong> have two more representatives, making them the most represented school in the Pretoria region. Lesedi Mabena<\/strong>, another who featured alongside Van der Walt and Pretorius in the younger age groups, makes the step-up, having already spent time at the Titans Talent Identification Camp<\/strong> two months ago. Keamogetswe Semenya<\/strong> is the third to fly the Prestige College flag in Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n

Cornwall Hill College<\/strong>, like Garsfontein and Waterkloof, has two players attending the week. Captain Ab Rasool<\/strong> cracked the nod alongside the talented Neoentle Makwela<\/strong>, who will look to play a crucial part with the ball in Bloemfontein. Pretoria Boys High<\/strong>, like neighbours Affies, have only one representative in Timothy Gordon<\/strong>. Gordon will add firepower with the willow, having looked in good nick during the new season thus far.<\/p>\n

TITANS SQUAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Timothy Gordon (Pretoria Boys High), Tshepang Laka (Atteridgeville Hub), Lesedi Mabena (Prestige College), Ab Rasool (Cornwall Hill College), Vihan Pretorius (Afrikaans Ho\u00ebr Seunskool), Reuben van Zyl (Garsfontein), Rico van der Walt (Waterkloof), Keamogetswe Semenya (Prestige College), Xander Venter (Garsfontein), Darius Maritz (Waterkloof), Neoentle Makwela (Cornwall Hill College), Ditebogo Chauke (Prestige College), Mahommed Borabat (Laudium Hub).<\/p>\n

Head Coach:\u00a0<\/strong>Thabang Khumalo
\nAssistant Coach:\u00a0<\/strong>Elmar Dorey
\nTeam Manager:\u00a0<\/strong>Thabiso Makwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Titans have announced their squad participating in the 2025 Khaya Majola Week, from 16 to 21 December in the City of Roses, Bloemfontein. The side from the Jacaranda City, boasting some of the top talent in the country, features an exciting mix of young talent and experience, although only three players from last year’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":66418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}