The Platinum Stars Courier
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kermit Tau takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market31 Aug 2026
Andile Erasmus 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Platinum Stars make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Platinum Stars have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Platinum Stars
Bongani Kekana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Kermit Tau in the eights
A performance of 9.75 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 Aug 2026
Platinum Stars get the job done against Ajax Cape Town
A 3‑2 win over Ajax Cape Town, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rivaldo Lorch attracts admirers
The name of Rivaldo Lorch has come up in conversations Platinum Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Rivaldo Lorch
At 19 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Bongani Kekana 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
- Player ratings Ricardo Williams was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Jayden Adams
- Squad 5 new faces, and Platinum Stars are still learning each other