Gift Phiri

Left Midfielder - Platinum Stars
12 Sep 2026
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Marked for Gift Phiri

6 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Itumeleng Mahlangu 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 The request is on a desk at Platinum Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A hand in 2 of them from Gift Phiri — 7.87

Marked 7.87. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Sifiso Zwane runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Evidence 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Platinum Stars find a way past Free State Stars

Free State Stars made Platinum Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad7 Sep 2026

“I want to play”: Antonio Van Wyk speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Ronwen Billiat, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80

A mark of 7.80 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Platinum Stars — 7.43

1 for Erick Phiri, marked 7.43, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Gift Dala 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evidence Mabunda 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 terraces17 Aug 2026

Platinum Stars supporters have found a favourite in Ronwen Billiat

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Ronwen Billiat 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Platinum Stars see off Kaizer Chiefs

Three points for Platinum Stars, 2‑0 the final word against Kaizer Chiefs in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Andile Kekana

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A Platinum Stars teenager takes the young player award

Ronwen Billiat is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Gift Phiri

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief