South African world champion athletes Wayde van Niekerk and Caster Semenya pocketed R250,000 and R230,000 respectively from Athletics South Africa. The country’s athletics governing body announced on Friday that a total of R710 000 will be paid to the athletes who won medals at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London in August. A gold […]

South Africa may not have won the Cape Town Sevens Tournament… but the venue was a winner, with many of the teams posting fabulous photos of Cape Town on their Twitter pages. The team from very cool Fiji tweeted: “How cool is this? Captains pose on the roof of the Cape Town Stadium with the […]

New Zealand claimed their maiden Cape Town Sevens title as South Africa had to settle for bronze after a pulsating day of action in the Mother City. The Springbok Sevens team had to work very hard to beat Fiji in their quarter-final early on the second day of the tournament, and despite trailing by 21-12 […]

Thirty-five tournaments, 1000 points and 200 tries… salute Seabelo Senatla on day one of the Cape Town Sevens on Saturday. After dotting down three times in the Blitzboks’ Pool A 40-5 win over Russia, Senatla scored the second last try of the 31-5 victory over France at a windswept Cape Town Stadium. It was Kwagga […]

South African number 1 wheelchair tennis quad ace, Lucas Sithole, claimed third spot behind world No 2 – Britain’s Andy Lapthorne – at the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters at Loughborough University in England, on Saturday. In his opening match, Sithole faced a tough challenge from American world No1 David Wagner. The American, who clinched his […]

An historic moment occurred last month when a Johannesburg City Heritage blue plaque, in honour of the legendary boxing trainer and promotor Theo Mthembu, was unveiled on the wall outside his home in Dube, Johannesburg. He moved into the house in 1955 and lived there for over 50 years. This is the first ever Heritage […]

South Africans living in Dubai have just had an awesome weekend supporting the Blitzboks as they claimed victory again at Rugby Sevens Dubai. For other South Africans living abroad, check out the schedule below to find out when the Blitzbokke will be in (or near) your country. (And of course if you’re in South Africa, […]

The Blitzboks have claimed the Dubai Sevens title with an impressive 24-12 win over New Zealand in the Cup final on Saturday. While the Springboks were locked in battle against Wales – and coming second best (22-24) – the Blitzboks were at their rampaging best as they charged to a second successive Dubai title, reports […]

South Africa’s swimmers are ready to mix it up at Mexico City for the Para Sports Festival starting on Saturday 2 December 2017. A team of five para-swimmers will do duty for the rainbow nation in the week-long competition which features both swimming and powerlifting. The swimming contingent is made up of three men and […]

South Africa’s Blitzboks are one match away from defending their Dubai Sevens title and will meet New Zealand in the final on Saturday evening. The South Africans, World Series champions, beat arch rivals Fiji 12-7 in the semi-final. After a scrappy opening to their tournament when they looked ring-rusty in beating Uganda, Neil Powell’s men […]

South Africa’s Blitzboks sevens side got their World Series off to a winning start in Dubai on Friday, ending the day unbeaten… writes Mark Etheridge. They beat continental counterparts Uganda 19-10 in their opening Pool A game. Later in the day, Seabelo Senatla scored a hat-trick to guide the Blitzboks to a resounding 48-5 win […]

The Springboks made up for last year’s history-making loss to Italy, by beating the Italians in a whopping 35-6 victory in the European country’s home territory on Saturday, clocking up their second win of the Outgoing Tour. It’s also SA’s biggest win against Italy in 20 years. Eben Etzebeth recovered from last week’s injury to […]

Aimee Barrett-Theron has become the first woman to earn selection to SA Rugby’s Premier Panel of referees after she was promoted to the top tier of match officials, along with Cwengile “JD” Jadezweni, Stuart Berry and AJ Jacobs. It means Barrett-Theron (30), who recently refereed the opening match of the Women’s Rugby World Cup in […]

South Africa’s Chad le Clos and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom were the big winners as they were crowned series champions at the Fina Swimming World Cup in Singapore, on Sunday… with Le Clos making history as he became the first male to win four World Cup titles. Both superstars collected winner’s cheques for $150,000. According to […]

South African boxer Zolani ‘Last Born’ Tete made history on Saturday night  in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the fastest World Title knock-out in boxing history! He knocked out his opponent – fellow South African Siboniso Gonya – in just 11 seconds! The previous record was 17 seconds, from a fight in 1994. The 29-year-old defending […]

South Africa has a new world champion after gymnast Bianca Zoonekynd won the double mini trampoline event at the 2017 Trampoline World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria last Sunday 13 November… an amazing achievement when just three months ago she was lying in hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung from a car accident. Victory […]

Hayley Nixon became South Africa’s latest world champion when she conquered tough conditions and a strong field to win the ICF Ocean Racing World Championships on a day that saw the SA team scooping up five medals in Hong Kong. Nixon (Euro Steel/Carbonology Sport) led home a team charge that yielded four of the top […]

The Springboks were focused on a good performance in Paris – after last week’s disastrous record-breaking loss to Ireland – and it was certainly an improvement… although calling it a “good performance” would be a stretch. It was just “good enough” for a narrow, but crucial, win. With 10 changes in the team, South Africa […]

Springbok captain Eben Etzebeth said he and his team-mates are focussed on delivering a good performance on Saturday evening against France, when the two teams meet at the Stade de France. “We have a job to do on Saturday and our focus is on the game,” said Etzebeth. “I am sure back home everyone is […]

Extra seats will be installed and 3000 additional tickets per day be made available for the previously sold-out Cape Town Sevens tournament, SA Rugby confirmed on Thursday. The highly-popular second leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series will take place at the Cape Town Stadium on 9 and 10 December. Temporary seating in the top […]

SA Rugby said it was “bitterly disappointed” at the decision by the World Rugby Council to overturn a recommendation that South Africa should host the 2023 Rugby World Cup and instead voted for France to host the tournament in a secret ballot. “We are bitterly disappointed at this decision and would like to apologise to […]

World Rugby‏ has confirmed that South Africa has not been awarded the Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023, despite being nominated by World Rugby as the preferred candidate. In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, World Rugby said: “Congratulations to France who has been awarded Rugby World Cup 2023 following World Rugby Council’s vote #RWC2023.” The vote was […]

The South African Government is urging the public to wear green on Wednesday in support of the announcement regarding which country will host the Rugby World Cup 2023 tournament. The hotly anticipated final announcement on whether South Africa will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup will be made on Wednesday at around 3pm South African […]

Ireland celebrated its biggest victory ever over South Africa in a mega 38-3 win for the home team, in Dublin on Saturday. It was more than just the luck of the Irish. The Springboks sadly did not perform well in this, the first of their Northern Hemisphere tour. In fact it was one of their […]

Two costly errors by Bafana Bafana defenders put paid to South Africa’s hopes of going to the FIFA World Cup in Russia 2018 as Senegal glided to a 2-0 win over the home side at a packed Peter Mokaba Stadium on Friday evening. Needing nothing short of victory to keep their hopes alive, South Africa […]