Faf de Klerk and Damian de Allende were included in Springbok starting line­up to face the All Blacks in Durban on Saturday in the final Test of the 2016 Castle Lager Rugby Championship The two personnel changes are both due to injuries – scrumhalf De Klerk comes into the starting team again as a replacement […]

Ironman has announced Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, as host for the 2018 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. This will be the first time an Ironman World Championship event will be held on the African continent! #GoSouthAfrica! The event – also known as the Half Ironman – will take place on Saturday, September 1st and Sunday, September 2nd, […]

Awesome two-time Olympian Chad le Clos swam his way into the history books yesterday as he led South Africa to third place on the medals table at the two-day FINA / airweave World Cup in Dubai. In winning the 100-metre butterfly with a time of 49.14 seconds, Le Clos claimed his 100th World Cup gold medal! […]

DAVID MILLER and Andile Phehlukwayo both played the innings of their lives to get the Standard Bank Proteas across the line for a four-wicket win over Australia, with four balls to spare, at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead on Wednesday evening… to clinch the Momentum ODI Series by a 3-0 margin with two matches still to be played. […]

Piet van Zyl was on Monday named as replacement for Springbok scrumhalf Rudy Paige, who was ruled out of action because he was still symptomatic following the concussion he suffered in the victory over the Wallabies on Saturday in Pretoria Van Zyl, who plays for the Vodacom Blue Bulls, will join the Springbok later on […]

FAF DU PLESSIS led another splendid batting display with his sixth century, helping the Standard Bank Proteas to a massive 142-run win over Australia and a 2-0 lead in their Momentum One-Day International (ODI) series after the second match at Bidvest Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. The stand-in South Africa captain batted through a hand injury […]

Springbok coach Allister Coetzee said the Springboks 18-10 win over the Wallabies at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday, was an important boost to the team’s confidence for the remainder of the season. “It was an important win, not only for our confidence, but also self-belief,” said Coetzee. “I am a very happy man and […]

South African football player Jason Johannison, who moved to Australia when he was eight, has won one of his new country’s most prestigious sporting awards – the Norm Smith Medal! The AFL (Australian Football League) called his team’s win a “fairytale” that “stretched all the way to Johannesburg” because of Johannisen’s medal win. AFL.com.au described the 23-year-old […]

QUINTON DE KOCK struck the second highest ever score by a South African as the Standard Bank Proteas scored a crushing six-wicket victory over Australia in the first Momentum One-Day International (ODI) played at SuperSport Park on Friday. The young opener blasted 178 from 113 deliveries, clubbing 11 sixes and 16 fours along the way, […]

Rudy Paige will make his starting debut for the Springboks on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld in the team’s penultimate Castle Lager Rugby Championship fixture of the year The inclusion of Paige at scrumhalf is one of three changes made to the Springbok line-up that started the match against the All Blacks two weeks ago in […]

Springboks Damian de Alllende, Lwazi Mvovo and Malcolm Marx were released by the national team on Monday and will be available for Currie Cup selection for this coming weekend. De Allende returns to the DHL Western Province, Mvovo goes back to the Cell C Sharks while Marx, who made his Springbok debut as a second half […]

South African sports legend Gary Player has paid tribute to fellow golfing great, friend and competitor Arnold Palmer, who passed away last night at the age of 87. Together with Jack Nicklaus, the trio formed the famous ‘Big Three’. [Read Palmer’s bio below Tribute.]  In a statement issued Monday, Player said: “Vivienne and I just woke up […]

Whilst locals in Port Elizabeth paddled out with their surfboards to celebrate Saturday’s Heritage Day and National Braai Day… a dive centre in Scottburgh found an even more unusual way to mark the occasion! Watch the video below for how KwaZulu-Natal dive center, Scubaxcursion, found a way for their scuba divers to enjoy a braai […]

South Africa has a new World Champion! In an emotional finish in Aragon, Spain today, motorcycle racer Brad Binder finished in second place… thereby scoring enough points to become World Champion in the Moto3 Championship. It’s been an incredible season of racing for 21-year-old Binder who began in 35th position on the grid… and raced his way determinedly […]

In honour of John Philip ‘Bakkies’ Botha’s birthday today, here’s a well known post from 2011 celebrating (and joking about) everything that makes the former Springbok rugby player so unique… and such a legend that posts like this exist! (And based on classic Chuck Norris jokes.) SOME ‘FACTS’ ABOUT BAKKIES BOTHA … Bakkies Botha is […]

Experienced backs Pat Lambie and Willie le Roux have been included in a 31-man Springbok squad for the two remaining home Tests in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship, in October, against Australia and New Zealand. Along with the experienced backline duo, Lood de Jager and Julian Redelinghuys will also return to the pack after recovering from injuries […]

Malcolm Marx (Xerox Golden Lions), Lwazi Mvovo (Cell C Sharks), Rudy Paige, Trevor Nyakane (both Vodacom Blue Bulls) and Bongi Mbonambi (DHL Western Province) were released to their provinces and can be considered for Currie Cup duty this coming weekend, SA Rugby announced on Monday. All five players were part of the Springbok squad that […]

South Africa’s Olympic bronze medallist, Henri Schoeman, raced to a career-first World Triathlon Series victory at the season’s Grand Final in Cozumel, Mexico on the weekend… in a dramatic finish that saw British Olympic gold medallist Alistair Brownlee forsake his own chance at victory to help his younger brother Jonny – who was almost unconscious – across the […]

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 […]

The national rugby team might not have given much reason for celebration on Saturday but South Africa’s Paralympic team continued to rake in the medals on the other side of the world; and Dyan Buis broke a Paralympic record. While the Springboks went down to New Zealand, Buis and Hilton Langenhoven helped maintain Team SA’s […]

The All Blacks scored 26 points in the second half for a comprehensive 41-13 victory over South Africa in Christchurch on Saturday The victory all but secures New Zealand the Rugby Championship trophy with two rounds left in the tournament. This was South Africa’s best first-half performance of the year against a New Zealand side […]

Charl du Toit became Team South Africa’s first double medallist of the Rio Paralympics on Friday. He added to his T37 gold medal in the 100m dash at the weekend by snatching another victor in the 400m event. That meant that the 23-year-old boosted the team’s tally to 14 medals with just Saturday and Sunday’s […]

Olympic swimmer Chad le Clos and his longtime coach, and family friend, Graham Hill have parted ways. In a statement released Thursday, Le Clos said: “Graham Hill has done a great job as my coach for 14 years. We have achieved a lot together at every level of the sport: The Olympics, The World Championships, […]

It was medals galore for Team South Africa on Thursday, as another four rained down in Rio on the country’s best day of the 2016 Paralympics. But there was also heartache for blind runner Louzanne Coetzee who came third… but was disqualified. Two golds, a silver and bronze joined the nine medals already harvested by the team […]

Team South Africa had their second double-gold day of the Rio Paralympics on Thursday as first Ernst van Dyk then Reinhardt Hamman ended top of their class! Van Dyk, who raced to fifth spot in the H5 time trial, pulled the rabbit out of the hat to win the men’s road race over 60 kilometres […]