The Platinum Stars Courier
Match15 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Kaizer Chiefs as Platinum Stars pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Platinum Stars scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Platinum Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hlompho Williams 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 Platinum Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Themba Mabunda 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ronwen Phiri the difference as Platinum Stars beat Kaizer Chiefs
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ronwen Phiri. 2‑1 against Kaizer Chiefs, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Platinum Stars supporters have found a favourite in Lebogang Tau
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lebogang Tau has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Khama Billiat
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Ronwen Phiri
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Platinum Stars pick somebody else ahead of Lebogang Mkhize
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Market Lebogang Ngcobo is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Ronwen Modiba runs at them all day
- Player ratings Dean Grobler changes it off the bench