Drumming up support for  their ICC T20 World Cup campaign in India next month, the Proteas have released their own rendition of the Pitbull’s hit Fireball. Maybe there’s also a career in music! Watch the video above or below. .@faf1307 is on FIRE &in leopard print in the Proteas’ latest video. #WATCH #Fireball here: https://t.co/UyEfBMoqDx pic.twitter.com/yulQugBzdO — […]

Check out South African big wave surfer Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker wiping out at yesterday’s awesome Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau event. The annual event in Hawaii, nicknamed The Eddie, only runs if waves are over 40 feet high! The last time it was able to run was in 2009. Speaking about the 3-second free fall […]

The South African businessman and former politician Tokyo Sexwale has withdrawn from the race to become the new president of the international football governing body FIFA, according to news reports on Friday. Sexwale made his announcement only minutes before the first round of voting for a new president of FIFA was to start in Zurich […]

Experienced Springbok wing Bryan Habana has been selected for the Springbok Sevens squad to play in their tournament in Las Vegas and Vancouver, SA Rugby announced today. Habana, South Africa’s prolific Test try scorer, joined the squad on Tuesday in Stellenbosch to make himself available for selection, following an agreement with his French club side, Toulon. The […]

South Africa beat England today to win the KFC T20 series with a 2-0 victory! The Oxigen Proteas achieved a brilliant 9-wicket victory with 32 balls to spare in the final match at the Bidvest Wanderers Stadium today. “The Proteas were special today and deserve full congratulations on winning the T20 series,” said Cricket South Africa (CSA) […]

Rugby World Cup (RWC) has joined fans around the world in wishing Joost van der Westhuizen a happy birthday today. Joost, who has inspired South Africa and the world with his battles both on and off the rugby field, turns 45 today. Joost was diagnosed with destructive degenerative disease Motor Neuron Disease (MND) in 2010, […]

South Africa’s sole Winter Youth Olympics entrant, Elizabeth Olivier, wrapped up her Olympic campaign in Lillehammer, Norway today, Thursday. After ending 36th in the giant slalom on Tuesday, the Eastern Cape teenager competed in the women’s slalom this morning, and was due to do her second and final run this afternoon. We don’t yet have the results but we […]

Kite boarders from 11 nations waited for the windiest day for the perfect conditions to fly high – and on Wednesday and Thursday they got it. “With iconic Table Mountain as backdrop – both wind and sea delivered some pumping conditions,” said the organisers of the Red Bull King of the Air 2016 competition. Watch some […]

South African professional offroad motorcycle rider Wade Young has landed his first major European extreme enduro win with victory at Hell’s Gate in Italy. Young, who became the youngest winner of the Roof of Africa four years ago at the age of 16, delivered a near flawless performance racing for Sherco, in Italy, to seal a […]

Twenty-five days to go to the Cape Town Cycle Tour – formerly known as “The Argus” – which is the largest timed bike race in the world. Lots of riders will be coming to Cape Town from other cities and from overseas. A limit of 35,000 entrants has been set for the 109-kilometre race around the […]

What a gorgeous picture – Zola Budd and Mary Decker at the Los Angeles Coliseum in the USA, 32 years after that fateful race that changed Budd’s life forever. The former South African barefoot runner posted the photo on her facebook page on Sunday, saying: “Mary and me at LA Coliseum after more than 30 years!!! […]

Competing with the famous Midmar Mile in KwaZulu-Natal, the Cape Mile went off with a big splash on Saturday at the Eikenhof Dam near Grabouw in the Western Cape, and Tobias Ginsberg caught the anticipation, excitement and speed of an open-water swim in his series of photographs. The Sanlam-sponsored event (shown in a great video at the end) has […]

There were some spectacular scenes Sunday at the second and final round of the Red Bull King of the Air competition at Big Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. MANIE VAN DER HOVEN from JustASurferDude.co.za and VICTOR TEIXEIRA were there to capture these awesome photos of the kiteboarders in action. “The wind and wave conditions were perfect and […]

In support of World Cancer Day on 4 February, and the international awareness campaign it promotes, the Proteas will play a Pink One Day International on 12 February that Cricket South Africa hopes will raise R1 million. This will be the the third time the Proteas have donned pink for the cause. According to CSA, previous events have raised almost R500,000 for […]

It’s a long way from Barkly East to Lillehammer but that’s the journey teenager Elizabeth Olivier is taking as she prepares to be South Africa’s sole representative at next month’s Winter Youth Olympics in Norway. She’ll be swopping the South African sunshine for Norwegian chill as she competes at the slalom and giant slalom events. […]

Two kilometres out of Hout Bay lies Dungeons, South Africa’s world famous big wave spot. Most of us never get to see it, being so far out… But yesterday a group of photographers were taken out to capture the big swells and brave surfers on film. Check out these photos from ROBYN GWILT and FABIAN COETZER… “It was a […]

Congratulations to South Africa’s Lucas Sithole for winning the Australian Open wheelchair tennis quad doubles title on Thursday in Melbourne. Sithole and his partner, American former world no. 1 David Wagner, beat British Andy Lapthorne and Australian Dylan Alcott 6-1 6-3 in an 1 hour battle at Melbourne Park. According to Tennis.co.za Sithole –  who lost both […]

Kagiso Rabada is not just the Man of the Match. He’s the Man of the Moment whose phenomenal performance today helped propel South Africa to defeat England in the final Test by a whopping 280 runs! Rabada’s second innings return of 6/32 gave him a match return of 13/144 which is the second best in […]

Cricket South Africa has imposed a ban of 20 years on Gulam Bodi after he admitted charges of contriving or attempting to fix matches in the 2015 RAM SLAM T20 Challenge Series. Bodi was charged with several counts of contriving or attempting to fix matches on 31 December 2015 following an investigation conducted by CSA’s Anti-Corruption […]

Congratulations to Kagiso Rabada on becoming the youngest South African to take seven wickets in a test innings. The 20-year-old made South Africa proud today with his performance on day three in the final test against England, at Centurion’s SuperSport Park in Pretoria. Minister of Sport, Fikile Mbalula, tweeted: “youngest fast bowler to get 7 […]

As if England cricket supporters didn’t have enough to rejoice yesterday after their team secured a 2-0 series lead in South Africa… Proteas supporter Stuart Weir captured the Barmy Army (English cricket fans) in the following sing-along at Bidvest Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. Stuart said: “Proteas thumped, Rand in free fall and the Barmy Army […]

The Joburg Open golf tournament began yesterday at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Course in Linksfield North. This is the 10th time the city is hosting the contest, which ends on Sunday 17 January. “It has proven its value as a highly successful event to market Johannesburg to a huge international audience,” said Bongi Mokaba, the […]

Check out this awesome footage as South African professional kiteboarder Luke McGillewie takes to the air, and almost lands on the beach, in Cape Town yesterday. Fellow kitesurfer Jamie Farrell uploaded the video on Wednesday, saying: “They say the wind hit 51 knots (94 kilometers per hour ) today in Cape Town… And what happens in Cape […]

AB de Villiers has vowed to lead by example as he takes over the captaincy of the Proteas for the remainder of the Sunfoil Test series against England, after Hashim Amla stepped down last week. He also revealed that part of Test cricket is to make the opponents feel uncomfortable – “to remind them that they […]

Congratulations to Brandon Stone who won the South African Open on Sunday, securing the first European Tour trophy of the year. It was an emotional victory for the 22-year-old who confessed that he had to have “a little silent pep talk” with himself after not playing “the most convincing golf” of his life earlier on in the tournament. He turned it […]