Keagan Mkhize

Central Defender - Platinum Stars
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Keagan Mkhize

7 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Platinum Stars

1‑4 against Orlando Pirates, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Orlando Pirates leaves Platinum Stars explaining themselves

1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lebogang Mahlangu

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Percy Manyama wants more than Platinum Stars are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Khama Khune 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.

Squad

Thulani Furman in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platinum Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Platinum Stars

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Match

Platinum Stars share the spoils with Golden Arrows

A 1‑1 draw with Golden Arrows leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Platinum Stars pick somebody else ahead of Keagan Mkhize

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Platinum Stars turn down Aston Villa for Percy Manyama

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Percy Manyama raises the bar for Platinum Stars

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Platinum Stars heard it as anything else.

Squad

Itumeleng Ngcobo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Platinum Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khama Khune 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.

Squad

Keagan Mkhize signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Keagan Mkhize and Platinum Stars agree another 2 years.

Squad

Percy Manyama 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 Percy Manyama trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief