The Platinum Stars Courier
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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
- Market The window shut and Sifiso Furman is still in the building
- Looking ahead Platinum Stars host Free State Stars
- The dugout The manager comes out for Siyabonga Erasmus