As anticipated, Ntando Mahlangu has done it again – scooping yet another fabulous Gold Medal for South Africa on Friday, 3 Sep, at the Tokyo Paralympics in Japan. Last week Mahlangu won Gold in the long jump AND broke a World Record. Mahlangu won the Men’s 200m (T61) final at the Olympic Stadium. With his […]

Watch South African double-amputee Ntando Mahlangu‘s amazing world record-breaking final leap at the Tokyo Paralympics. Ntando jumped an incredible 7.17m to win GOLD for South Africa in the men’s T63 long jump… and break his own world record. Stream the Tokyo Paralympics on Showmax Pro. Subscribe before 31 August and get an extra month free!  WATCH […]

South African Athlete Ntando Mahlangu broke the world record with a final leap of 7.17m to win Gold in the men’s T63 long jump, a matter of minutes after Anrune Weyers had sped to the women’s T47 400m gold in 56.05sec. This put Team SA on the medals table at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with […]

The inspirational story of South Africa’s young Paralympic star, Ntando Mahlangu, is featured in the Netflix documentary ‘Rising Phoenix’ which launches on 26 August. ‘Rising Phoenix’ is a ground-breaking movie about the Paralympic Movement, which will showcase in over 190 countries on Netflix. Featuring Paralympians from across the world, ‘Rising Phoenix’ tells the extraordinary story […]

South Africa’s Ntando Mahlangu took his first world title in the men’s 200m T61 at the World Para-Athletics Championships in Dubai. Mahlangu scooped his Gold Medal in a time of 23.23 seconds, ahead of Great Britain’s Paralympic hero Richard Whitehead who ran in 23.82 seconds. On Facebook on Friday, an elated Mahlangu wrote: “An honor […]

While the global athletics fraternity’s eyes are focused firmly on London and the IAAF World Championships, South Africa is just as much in the spotlight elsewhere in Europe. On a weekend which saw South Africa winning their first two medals at the London championships, courtesy of Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai in the long jump, […]

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This Sunday’s Carte Blanche broadcast has something for everyone. You can watch the show on Sunday 26 September in South Africa on DStv Now or stream it overseas on Showmax International in most countries from Tues 28  September if you’re abroad. CELEBRATION: South Africa’s Paralympic Heroes When you meet Ntando Mahlangu, a young unassuming man […]

Watch the goosebump-generating video below as South Africans warmly congratulated their Paralympic team upon their return from Japan to Johannesburg yesterday, giving them a heroes’ welcome. Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa said: “Today we welcomed the #TeamSA Paralympians at OR Tambo International Airport & expressed our gratitude to them for flying the South African flag high. […]

More than ever, in this age of Covid-19 and the wearing of face masks, the eyes have become the window to the soul. And standing there in the mixed zone inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, at 9:30pm last Saturday night, was Johan Snyders. The compulsory mask hid most of his face. But not the eyes. […]

Louzanne Coetzee applied the finishing touches to Team SA’s campaign at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics when she surged to the bronze medal in the women’s marathon (T12) on a cool and overcast morning in the Japanese capital… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo. Coetzee (28) had earlier in the Games won the silver medal in the […]

South African athlete Anrune Weyers has scooped GOLD at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan, putting SA on the medal board… and causing us to shed a few tears of joy for her, as she tearfully dropped to her knees in gratitude after crossing the finishing line. Weyers sped to victory in the women’s T47 […]

On the third day of staying in the Paralympic village bubble “it” finally dawned on me. “It” wasn’t the sheer visual aspect of the 4 000-plus Paralympians with disabilities all in the same environment of towering 17-storey apartments and surrounded by a 4km perimeter fence… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo. Admittedly, that is the initial […]

South Africa’s Paralympic team have headed off to Japan for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Here’s a guide to the events our 34 SA athletes will be competing in, along with an explanation as to what each category classification means. But first, here’s a wonderful message from Olympic gold-medal winner, Tatjana Schoenmaker for the SA Paralympic […]

Team SA has returned from the World Para Athletics Championships with a bagful of medals and a total of 10 qualifiers for next year’s Tokyo Paralympics – and counting. There were 11 medals won in Dubai, two of them gold, with three silvers and six bronzes. Anrune Weyers was the show-stopper from a Team SA […]

A teenager from South Africa – who was run over by a truck when he was just 5-years-old – has broken a world record at the World Para Athletics Junior Championships in Switzerland. An excited World Para Athletics said: “NEW WORLD RECORD for the 14-year-old South African Puseletso Mabote on the first day of our […]

South Africa’s Is Ability Sports Club ended its International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) World Games in Portugal on top of the medals table! The 17-strong team won 14 gold, seven silver, and nine bronze medals in the Games, held in Vila Real de Santo Antonio. There was also one world record and five […]

South Africa’s Olympic gold medallists Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya were the big winners at the South African Sports Awards Sunday night, with Wayde winning yet another car and a million rand (half of which will be given to charity). The two sports stars were praised for taking South African sports’ excellence to another level […]

Anruné Liebenberg scorched to 400-metre track silver on Wednesday night to take Team South Africa’s medal tally to one short of double figures. Running in the T45-46-47 classification (upper limb impairment) she repeated her feat from the last Paralympics in London four years ago. Sure the time may have been a full 2.03sec slower than […]

South Africa woke up on Monday to anything but a blue Monday as Team South Africa celebrated six of the best medals in Rio de Janeiro. After a super productive afternoon on the track where first Charl du Toit and Fanie van der Merwe won gold and bronze in the T37 100m final and Ilse […]

Seven-time Paralympian Ernst van Dyk wrapped up Team South Africa’s 2016 Paralympics with a sixth-spot finish in the wheelchair marathon on Sunday. And fellow ‘veteran’ Fanie van der Merwe was honoured as the team’s flag bearer at the closing ceremony later in the day. Van Dyk 43, who on Thursday had won gold in the […]