Sifiso Tau

Left Forward - Platinum Stars
1 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Sifiso Tau

33 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Nkosikhona Ndaba 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.

Squad

Teboho 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Lucas Galarza

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Galarza, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
30 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Hlompho Dolly out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Platinum Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A first appearance Sifiso Tau will want to forget — 5.52

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.52, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Squad

Keagan Phiri 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.

Squad

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teboho Jali 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Lebogang Ngcobo

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.

Squad

Teboho Jali 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