Sifiso Furman

Defensive Midfielder - Platinum Stars
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Sifiso Furman

6 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Bongani Jali hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Platinum Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Terms done: Rivaldo Lorch is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tusker waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Platinum Stars is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 10 in, 3 out at Platinum Stars

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Jayden Adams 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.

Transfer targets

Mamelodi Sundowns tell Platinum Stars: Matías Esquivel is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Platinum Stars lose Thulani Vilakazi

44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

A month that belonged to Rivaldo Lorch

The young player of the month award goes to a 19-year-old at Platinum Stars who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Squad

Keagan Zungu slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Keagan Zungu is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Market

The Bongani Kekana question follows Platinum Stars around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bongani Kekana’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Platinum Stars sell their best player to Chippa United

$2.9M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Match

Kermit Tau leads the rout of Chippa United

3‑0, and Kermit Tau took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Platinum Stars tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Sifiso Furman hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Platinum Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Kermit Tau scores twice — 9.11

Two goals and a mark of 9.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Thulani Vilakazi agrees terms with Jomo Cosmos

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Platinum Stars people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Plateau United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Platinum Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Siyabonga Erasmus runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $2.9M sale of Bruno Vannucci

He is going to Chippa United, the club has $2.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town tell Platinum Stars: Morgan Dolly is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief