Williams Hlatshwayo

Right Wingback - Free State Stars
22 Apr 2027
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Process

Marked for Williams Hlatshwayo

17 Edition

The Free State Stars Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Itumeleng Zungu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Williams Hlatshwayo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Free State Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Free State Stars come up short against Jomo Cosmos

Jomo Cosmos left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Free State Stars Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Gift Hlatshwayo keeps Free State Stars in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Keagan Mokoena at 20 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Keagan Mokoena did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

The wait goes on for Free State Stars

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Itumeleng Zungu

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Keagan Mokoena 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.

Squad

Ramahlwe Zwane 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.

In brief