Khama Grobler

Central Defender - Platinum Stars
11 Sep 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Khama Grobler

47 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Keagan Billiat 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.

Market

Business is business: Percy Lorch goes

Jomo Cosmos paid $6.0K and Platinum Stars took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Teboho Khune moves on

Bidvest Wits pay $15.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Morgan Williams says Platinum Stars went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Keagan Billiat 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.

Loan watch

Luther Mokoena counts the days

“I watch every Platinum Stars game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bidvest Wits runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

19 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Khama Kekana asks to leave Platinum 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.

Squad

Khama Grobler: 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.” Platinum Stars have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Keagan Billiat was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Ronwen Tau runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Sifiso Dala in the eights

A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Thulani Lorch gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

16 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nothing got past Thulani Erasmus

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 28 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Gift Lorch

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Keagan Billiat 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ronwen Tau

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Sifiso Dala sends Platinum Stars past Jomo Cosmos

It finished 1‑0, and it was Sifiso Dala’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Platinum Stars.

Player ratings

Sifiso Dala stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.98 on the card, and the Platinum Stars support went home talking about one name.

In brief