The British & Irish Lions started the Lions Series on a winning note with an eight-try 56-14 victory over the Sigma Lions at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg on Saturday evening, with Josh Adams bagging four second-half tries. The home team lost focus from time to time, and were punished for a slow start with […]

The Springboks are up and running, celebrating Friday night with a victory against Georgia in their first Test match at home since 2019! Although the match was not perfect, there were some moments of brilliance for the Rugby World Cup champions as they beat the visitors at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, South Africa, in a […]

In a crushing turn of events, professional surfer and Red Bull athlete Jordy Smith has made the difficult decision to pull out of the upcoming Summer Olympic Games at the last minute. The news comes in the wake of a nagging knee injury the Durban-born surfer has been dealing with since the Australian leg of […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Top seed Novak Djokovic clinically dispatched South Africa’s big-serving Kevin Anderson 6-3 6-3 6-3 on Wednesday to glide ominously into the Wimbledon third round. South Africans can still pin their hopes on Lloyd Harris. Defending champion Djokovic is bidding for a sixth Wimbledon and record-equalling 20th Grand Slam title. Today he was […]

South African sports star Kevin Anderson has won his opening match at Wimbledon… knocking Marcelo Vera, from Chile, out in four sets. “The big-serving South African recovered from a set down to defeat Vera 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) in a clash that lasted over three hours,” said Tennis South Africa. Kevin’s through to the […]

South Africa’s cycling team at this year’s Tour de France – Team Qhubeka – successfully navigated today’s dramatic start to the famous annual race, managing to escape the accidents without serious injury. Team Qhubeka said: “Thankfully all of our riders came through today’s stage of Le Tour de France unscathed. ? We want to wish […]

Red Bull surfing athlete, Jordy Smith has been officially confirmed as part of the team that will travel to Tokyo, Japan for the upcoming Summer Olympics, kicking off next month as surfing makes its debut in the Games. Smith has said that this opportunity wasn’t even on the radar for him as he never thought […]

South African professional cyclist Stefan de Bod will be flying the flag high for SA during this year’s Tour de France 2021 in what is a dream come true for the 24-year-old. Yesterday, he was announced as a Tour de France team cyclist for Astana Premier Tech. On Monday, Stefan said on social media: “First […]

There was joy for Wayde van Niekerk but more frustration for Caster Semenya at the Continental Tour Silver event meeting in Madrid on Saturday night. Van Niekerk, the current 400m Olympic champion, finished second in 44.56 seconds and although he was headed across the line by Colombia’s Anthony Zambrano (44.51), both men easily dipped inside […]

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Friday afternoon (18 June 2021) that South Africa’s long jumper Luvo Manyonga has been banned for four years. The AIU said in a tweet: “The Disciplinary Tribunal has banned South African long jumper Luvo Manyonga for four years from 23 December 2020 for whereabouts failures, his second violation of […]

A new era will kick off for South African rugby when the Sharks, Stormers, Lions and Bulls join 12 PRO14 clubs for the United Rugby Championship, which will start in September 2021 in a brand new, world-class 16-team league. SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux called it a “watershed moment in South African rugby history”. The […]

Novak Djokovic made history on Sunday evening in a thrilling men’s finals match at the Roland Garros 2021 French Open. The Serb – who is the world’s number one tennis player – fought from two sets down to became the first man in Open Era to win each major at least twice! He is just […]

South Africa’s Proteas cricket team has won the first Test match against the West Indies, with fast-bowler Kagiso Rabada “on the rampage”… helping his team to victory by taking five wickets. The Proteas won – before lunch – by one innings and 63 runs. Cricket South Africa said: “A clinical performance by the #Proteas sees […]

The PRO14 Rainbow Cup SA match between the Lions and Stormers, scheduled for Cape Town Stadium on Saturday, has been cancelled in line with COVID-19 protocols to limit the risk of further infection in the rugby community. The decision was taken as part of prescribed precautions advised by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) […]

South African athlete Akani Simbine has won the 100 metre event at the Diamond League meeting in Florence, Italy. The smile on his face says it all! SA’s 100 metre men’s champion (and reigning Commonwealth Games gold medallist) had a slow start but sprinted to victory – in 10.08sec – at the 2021 Pietro Mennea […]

South African rugby players Damian de Allende and RG Snyman, who were recently named in the Springbok squad for the Lions tour, were involved in an accident in Munster, Ireland, over the weekend that has left them with “substantial” burns to their legs, hands and faces. According to their Head Coach they are “ok”. Munster […]

Despite yesterday winning his match in the third round of the French Open at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer (39) has withdrawn from the tournament. In a statement posted on his Twitter account, Federer, whose mother is a South African expat, said: “After discussions with my team, I’ve decided I […]

Frans Steyn and Morné Steyn are in line to experience the rare honour of facing the British & Irish Lions for a second time after being named in a dynamic Springbok squad featuring several Rugby World Cup winners and exciting uncapped players for the Castle Lager Lions Series and Georgia internationals. Mark Alexander, President of […]

South African Brad Binder – who won the 2020 MotoGP Rookie of the Year award – says he is “super, super happy” to have signed a new contract that will see him remain part of the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing team for the next three years and take him to 10 Grand Prix seasons […]

South African football coach Pitso Mosimane‘s cult status in Egypt continues to grow, as does the pride back home in SA… with President Cyril Ramaphosa issuing a congratulatory statement for Mosimane’s latest accomplishment – leading the continent’s top football club, Al Ahly, to victory in the African Super Cup on Friday (28 May 2021). Mosimane […]

This weekend South African professional golfer Louis Oosthuizen pulled off his fifth runner-up achievement in a Major, when he came second to US player Phil Mickelson at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island in South Carolina… and it wasn’t long before fans were sharing an old video he made laughing about his knack of coming […]

South Africa’s elite athletes will be vaccinated through the Sisonke Study ahead of international sporting events, including the Tokyo Games kicking off in July. This comes after the approval granted by the South African Health Product Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to make available a “modest” number of the remaining COVID-19 Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine doses […]

Rugby, travel, cycling and a pair of mad-cap adventurers. What could possibly go wrong? A whole lot, although in the case of the intrepid James Owens from the UK and Ron Rutland from South Africa, their extraordinary journey to the 2019 Rugby World Cup held the ‘key’ to an amazing adventure that was remarkable for […]

The Springboks will make their much-anticipated return to international action in July when the world champions host Georgia in a historic two-match series, which is part of a bumper World Rugby midyear Test schedule. The series mark the first time Georgia will tour South Africa, while the two Tests are also the first time the […]

South Africa’s men’s 4x100m sprinters raced to victory in an incredible nail-biting finish, crossing the line just one-hundredth of a second ahead of Brazil. In fact, watch below, as even the commentators are surprised when SA overtook to win in that last second! It was so close that from where they were sitting the commentators […]