The Platinum Stars Courier
Match29 Aug 2026
A 3-goal lead gone for Platinum Stars
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Ajax Cape Town kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Platinum Stars will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rivaldo Phiri agrees terms with Ittihad
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Platinum Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Kutlwano Letlhaku, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04
A mark of 8.04 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Erick Khune puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Platinum Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town take the points off Platinum Stars
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No deal for Mcebisi Langa at that price
Platinum Stars offered $140.0K; University of Pretoria said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lebogang Jali 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Platinum Stars
Evidence Mothiba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Kutlwano Letlhaku
At 20 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
- Market ASO Chlef join the queue for Bongani Grobler
- The dugout Siyanda Khumalo gets it from the manager
- The dugout Morgan Ngcobo answers for it