The Platinum Stars Courier
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 The request is on a desk at Platinum Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.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
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Erick Phiri
- Squad The division's best last weekend was a Platinum Stars man