Sifiso Mkhize

Goalkeeper - Retired
22 Apr 2028
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37 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

A falling-out at Platinum Stars

Nkosi Gumede and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bongani Mothiba 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.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Sifiso Mkhize pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Loan watch12 Apr 2027

Teboho Billiat has seen enough of AFC Leopards

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Platinum Stars, and 9 appearances in 31 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

When it matters, Bongani Mothiba plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Dean Mkhize

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

Market12 Apr 2027

The Gift Mothiba question follows Platinum Stars around

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

Match12 Apr 2027

Platinum Stars in the hunt for Europe

Position 5, 44 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

The dugout12 Apr 2027

Sifiso Dala knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sifiso Dala trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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35 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Erick Mabunda

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Platinum Stars lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Nkosi Gumede 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Evidence Erasmus is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Roscoe Pietersen

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch29 Mar 2027

The goals keep arriving from Lebogang Jali’s exile

10 goals in 22 games at Stade Malien — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Platinum Stars updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market29 Mar 2027

Andile Grobler linked with a move away

The name of Andile Grobler keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Platinum Stars say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch29 Mar 2027

Teboho Billiat keeps scoring at AFC Leopards

7 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Khama Tau has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Khama Tau has written the date down.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Hlompho Mahlangu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hlompho Mahlangu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

6 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 9 in, 2 out at Platinum Stars

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

Hlompho Mahlangu 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Platinum Stars

Nkosi Gumede and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Evidence Erasmus

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bongani Mothiba 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Kermit Hlatshwayo is the month’s best young player

At 20 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Platinum Stars will try not to make too much of it.

In brief

1 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Andile Mokoena 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Bidvest Wits watching Khama Jali

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Platinum Stars have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Platinum Stars

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bongani Mothiba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sifiso Mkhize signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sifiso Mkhize commits to Platinum Stars for another 1 years.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Platinum Stars try to borrow Brian Musa

Kenya Police have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Platinum Stars try to borrow Tapelo Xoki

Orlando Pirates have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Andile Grobler knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Andile Grobler trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Andile Mokoena takes the armband

It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.

Market3 Aug 2026

12 months and counting on Sifiso Mkhize

Still no offer on the table, and Sifiso Mkhize’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief