The Platinum Stars Courier
Squad7 Sep 2026
Evidence Dala damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match5 Sep 2026
Platinum Stars tear Free State Stars apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Free State Stars, and it could have been more.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gift Khune breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Lebogang Furman at 18 — 7.77
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lebogang Furman did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Percy Mkhize runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Morgan Ngcobo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Platinum Stars, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kegan Johannes 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kermit Manyama 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Williams Grobler
At 23 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Mandla Mothiba in the eights
- Player ratings Williams Grobler in the eights