Red Bull athlete and Hard Enduro racer, Wade Young, has won the 2022 Roof of Africa which is a remarkable fifth victory in a row, making it the South African’s seventh win. In 2012, the hard enduro rider from KwaZulu-Natal became the youngest racer to win the iconic motorbike enduro race – known as ‘the […]

A rousing 14-man fightback by the Springboks fell agonizingly short as France ended a run of seven successive defeats by the Boks with a 30-26 (halftime 16-10) victory at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday night. The Boks played for 58 minutes with 14 men – after Pieter Steph du Toit was red carded […]

PIETERMARITZBURG – Following heavy rains in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday evening which caused the dredging equipment at Camps Drift to wash down river, the Clanfin Umpetha Challenge scheduled for this Sunday has been postponed until early December. Organisers of the event are unsure as to the time it will take to remove the machinery from the […]

Former SA Under-20 flyhalf Manie Libbok has been included on the Springbok bench for Saturday’s Test against France in Marseille as head coach Jacques Nienaber named a team showing five changes and two positional switches from the side that ran out against Ireland last weekend. The second Test on the Castle Lager Outgoing Tour kicks […]

ADELAIDE (Reuters) – The Netherlands lit up the final day of Group 2 action on Sunday in Adelaide, Australia, when they dashed South Africa’s semi-final hopes at the Twenty20 World Cup by pulling off a huge upset against Temba Bavuma’s team. Cricket South Africa said: “The Netherlands’ bowlers came up with the goods as they […]

Ireland showed composure under pressure and took advantage of some unforced errors by the visitors to beat the Springboks 19-16 (half-time 6-6) in a hard-fought Test match at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday evening. The two sides were level at at the halftime break following two successful penalty goals each way, but Ireland […]

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi vowed that his team would give everything when they line up against Ireland, the top-ranked team in the world, at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday and shot down suggestions that it was a revenge match after their heavy defeat in Dublin in 2017. The Boks wrapped up their on-field preparations on […]

Shaiyene Fritz says her passion for pool started when she was nine years old. By Mary-Anne Gontsana Shaiyene Fritz has just returned from Morocco, where she competed in the World Blackball Championships. South Africa won gold medals in a number of events, including the women’s team category. Fritz is studying to be a social worker, […]

SYDNEY: The Proteas surrendered the early advantage against Pakistan before going down to a 33-run defeat on the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern (DLS) Method at the SCG in Sydney on Thursday – their first loss at the 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. Desperate to win in order to stay alive in the competition, the unpredictable Asian side […]

Waves for Change has received the Laureus Sport For Health Recognition Award, a commendation from Laureus South Africa as part of their 20th-year birthday activities. The community-based organisation received the award in recognition of uplifting and investing in children and young people from vulnerable communities to help transform and create a better South Africa. Waves […]

Two large wheelchair wheels and two dustbin wheels. Wooden planks, bearings, rods and nails. These are the materials children have used in Gugulethu to build go-karts to race through the township streets. They did so as part of a two-day competition, New Race Go-Kart Tournament, which ran in Gugulethu over the weekend. Hosted by Nulife […]

South Africa has come out tops – out of 31 countries! – with an amazing 26 Gold medals at the Biathle-Triathle World Championships, which was held over the last four days in Madeira, Portugal. UIPM World Pentathlon said: “The battle for medal supremacy was an all-African affair as South Africa and Egypt shone across almost […]

David Miller and Aiden Markram hit half-centuries to lead South Africa to a five-wicket win over India in Perth on Sunday. It puts the Proteas in pole position for a semi-final berth at the T20 World Cup, although they’re not getting over-confident. Markram says: “We’ve still got a massive game against Pakistan and we’ve got […]

Team SA athletes will be richly rewarded for their awesome performance at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Games. SASCOC will be rewarding Team SA’s 27 medallists and their coaches through incentives funded by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC). Breakdown of the allocations: Athletes’ incentives: Gold- R100 000, per athlete Silver- R 50 000, […]

Former Junior Springbok backs Manie Libbok and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu earned their first Springbok call-ups on Friday, while there was a recall for Jason Jenkins, who is back in the national set-up four years after making his Test debut, as head coach Jacques Nienaber named his 35-man squad to represent South Africa in the Castle Lager […]

A primary school learner from Somerset West (less than an hour from Cape Town) is representing South Africa at the Biathle-Triathle World Championships which kicks off in Madeira, Portugal today. Almost 2,000 messages of support have poured in for young Cameron Hodge from Beaumont Primary School in the Western Cape. The school called it an […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Former Australia cricket captain Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball-tampering in the match that immediately followed the infamous 2018 Newlands test which saw the Australian team engulfed in the ‘Sandpaper-gate’ scandal. Paine, who stepped down from the captaincy late last year and withdrew from cricket for nearly a year, has […]

The Springboks will line up against the New Zealand at Twickenham in England for only the second time ever when they clash in a Rugby World Cup warm-up fixture on Friday, 25 August 2023 – two weeks before the international extravaganza kicks off in France, where South Africa will attempt to defend their crown as […]

Everyone loves winning. Everyone loves to watch their team win. But what we all love most is seeing our team having FUN while competing – win or lose. And no one is better at having fun than South Africans! By Sine Thieme.  With life returned to (almost) normal this October of 2022, the Friends of […]

South African teen swimmer Matthew Sates has begun the FINA World Cup season exactly where he left off last year when Matt was crowned overall winner. FINA said on Sunday night: “?? Matthew Sates restarts the World Cup season from where he left last year… WINNING ALL! With 58.3 points (Matt) is the rankings leader of […]

The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is set to race in Cape Town, South Africa for the first time on 25 February 2023, following approval at the FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting yesterday. Cape Town joins Hyderabad, India, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as new cities scheduled to hold races in Season 9 of […]

British-South African endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh – who is currently swimming across the Red Sea (the first person to ever do so!) – has swum into Sharm El-Sheikh with an urgent message for world leaders, who will be gathering at the Egyptian resort in three week’s time for this year’s crucial UN Climate Summit (COP27). […]

South African swimmers Matt Sates and Chad le Clos have their sights set on this year’s FINA World Cup in Berlin, Germany, later this month. The overall prize money is $1.2-million, before even factoring in for bonuses. At just 19-year-old, Matt is last year’s FINA World Cup overall defending champion with 18 medals. Last year […]

Cradock – Andy Birkett and Bridgitte Hartley were crowned SA K1 River champions after wrapping up victories in the men’s and women’s races at the 40th Fish River Canoe Marathon on Saturday. By Dave Macleod. A week after he won the world marathon title, Birkett showed his class and form as he added another four […]

South African professional Motocross and Enduro racer Bradley Cox has won the final stage (Stage 5) in the legendary Rallye du Maroc Rally 2 class today. Posting from Agadir in Morocco, Bradley said he is “over the moon” to have grabbed the final stage win. Moving up from 15th to come tenth overall for the […]