Platinum Stars was a South African football club based in Phokeng near Rustenburg, North West Province that played in the Premier Soccer League.

Silver Stars immediately repaid their new sponsors, by achieving their first set of top flight medals in the club's history, when they beat Ajax Cape Town 3–1 in the final of the inaugural Telkom Knockout league cup, in December 2006.

[5] The reason behind the introduction of a new name for the club, was in order to better reflect the historic association of both the North West province and the RBN, with platinum mining in South Africa being their major business activity.

[4] With the arrival of RBN as the new owners, the longtime managing director Larry Brookstone and the successful team coach Owen Da Gama, at the same time opted to stop working for the club in May 2007.

Larry Brookstone moved on to work as the CEO of the reborn Highlands Park, and Owen Da Gama continued for the next three seasons as a team coach for other top flight clubs in the Premier Soccer League.

The result however only provided some short-lived success, as Platinum Stars lost the second leg 0–2, and was kicked out of the tournament by Al Ahly, due to a better aggregate score.

Despite having experienced this hard time with several years of faltering results, the financial support by the Royal Bafokeng Nation was fully maintained, with RBN even opting in November 2008, to buy the remaining 49% of the club shares held by Brookstone and Mapfulagasha.

At that point of time, Platinum Stars also hosted and lost a 3–0 friendly game to the England national football team, being the latter's final warm-up match, ahead of their World Cup opener at 7 June 2010.