The Free State Stars Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ronwen Mahlangu keeps Free State Stars in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for Free State Stars
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Platinum Stars kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Free State Stars will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Both of them Themba Khune's — 8.22
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market7 Sep 2026
Thulani Mkhize asks to leave Free State Stars
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Free State Stars
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Free State Stars are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Andile Zungu — 7.97
Marked 7.97. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match5 Sep 2026
Free State Stars are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Percy Erasmus 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 Free State Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Free State Stars training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronwen Vilakazi 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.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Agustín Tejera
- Match Free State Stars and Platinum Stars take a point apiece
- Market Free State Stars shop where it costs nothing