Zola Budd-Pieterse is no longer the naïve young darling of South African athletics, but the 46-year-old still has what it takes. She finished her first ultramarathon in April 2012, running a cold and rainy Two Oceans in Cape Town in under 4 and a half hours. At 56km, the Two Oceans was the longest race Budd-Pieterse […]

Although his childhood dream was to become a professional football player, it was his unexpected triumph at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 – in the men’s marathon – that won Josiah Thugwane his long-standing fame and glory as one of South Africa’s greatest sport achievers. Thugwane, who was only 25 years old at the time, ran […]

Veteran runner and South African Olympian Wally Hayward was one of the great characters of the sport.   Although he never won an Olympic medal, his name became synonymous with endurance running over the course of his 60-year career. Hayward is forever linked with the gruelling Comrades Marathon, one of the world’s toughest long-distance races at […]

When Caster Semenya said to a journalist recently she was more worried about football team Kaizer Chiefs taking the Premier Soccer League title than about her own qualifying session, she wasn’t joking. A lot has happened since: Chiefs has shattered the dreams of its supporters by falling to a less-than-prestigious sixth spot on the log and […]

South Africa’s Ashwin Willemse has been selected by the International Rugby Board (IRB) to be the ambassador for its upcoming IRB Under-21 World Championship. In this capacity he’ll help to promote the event around South Africa, and build national excitement and support. The event takes place at Cape Town’s brand new UCT Stadium and Stellenbosch’s Danie Craven Stadium, […]

Congratulations to Louis Oosthuizen who shot his way to victory today at the Maybank Malaysian Open at Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club! The South African golfer has taken us – not to mention himself – on a rollercoaster of emotions in the last seven days. He went down in history for shooting an albatross […]

Louis Oosthuizen has responded in typical gentlemanly fashion to the surge of support he’s received after narrowly missing out to Bubba Watson at the Augusta Masters last weekend. The South African golfer has been besieged with messages from his growing legion of fans who were blown away both by his demeanour and his extremely rare Albatross […]

Eish! South African golf sensation Louis Oosthuizen just missed out on winning the Masters Tournament at Augusta in Georgia, USA BUT he did make rare golfing history yesterday. In a nail-biting finish, Ooshuizen’s dream of becoming only the sixth player in the world to win majors at the revered Augusta National and St. Andrews (which […]

South African Paralympic sprint runner Oscar Pistorius is the winner of the 2012 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability award. The Laureus World Sports Awards, regarded as the Oscars of the sporting industry, are awarded annually to sportspeople with outstanding achievements. Pistorius was presented with the prestigious accolade after becoming the first amputee to […]

A celebrated batsman and an accomplished bowler, South African-born all-rounder Basil D’Oliveira passed away in England, his adopted country for over four decades. He died on 19 November, aged 80, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. The global cricketing community has reacted to the news with grief, and tributes have been carried in press publications […]

South African veteran sports photographer Wessel Oosthuizen has been honoured at an exhibition in New Zealand, where his image was rated second out of 120 submissions. Oosthuizen’s photo was part of the Union: The Heart of Rugby exhibition at Auckland City Hall, which took place during the recent Rugby World Cup. The display was viewed by […]

Eastern Cape-born Cecil Afrika, top points and try scorer in the 2010/2011 HSBC Sevens World Series, was recently named the International Rugby Board‘s (IRB) Sevens Player of the Year. The award ceremony took place at the Vektor Arena in Auckland, New Zealand on 24 October, following the successful completion of the seventh Rugby World Cup which was […]

Despite an early exit from the Rugby World Cup, the Springboks flew the South African flag high in New Zealand, says Brand South Africa CEO Miller Matola. The national rugby team arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on Monday afternoon, and were received by hundreds of supporters who welcomed them with pride and joy. Many were carrying […]

Jislaaik. It was close. But we won today! South Africa played Wales in their opening match at the World Cup in Wellington, New Zealand…and just won by 17 to 16. The match started well. Within 4 minutes Francois Steyn had scored a conversion and Morne Steyn converted. 7-0 to the world champions in less than […]

The Springboks and thousands of fans brought Sandton to a standstill on 1 September 2011 during a spirited send-off ahead of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. With the farewell coinciding with the start of the new season, the event was fittingly dubbed SpringBok Day. South Africa’s national rugby team left the country last night […]

Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will converge on the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, for their annual general meeting from 4 to 9 July 2011. This is the first time that the committee meets on African soil.   The meetings taking place at Durban’s International Convention Centre will form part of the 123rd IOC […]

The journey of Wimbledon’s newest champion Novak Djokovic to victory included a match against South Africa’s own Kevin Anderson. The two met in the second round of the tennis tournament, where Djokovic knocked Anderson out in a fairly short match. In just under two hours, Djokovic dominated and won in three straight sets: 6-3, 6-4, […]

South Africa’s Lwazi Gqira, 18, is swinging his way to golfing success after recently competing in the Toya Polish Junior Championship, which ran from 22 to 25 June 2011. To get there, the young sportsman from a poverty-stricken squatter camp in Duncan Village, East London, took his first flight in an airplane. “It was my first […]

South Africa is well represented at this week’s U.S. Open golf tournament here in the Washington area. Seven South Africans are in the field at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, including five players who have won major championships. Of the five South Africans with major titles at the U.S. Open, Ernie Els has the […]

Check out an interview with South African golfer Louis Oosthuizen, made today at the US Open after the freak incident in which his and another player’s golf balls landed right next  to each (a rare occurrence in the world of golf). Louis and fellow golfer Graeme McDowell hit their tee shots and then wandered up […]

Congratulations to Jacques Kallis who was crowned South African Cricketer of the Year for 2011 the South African Cricket Awards Gala Dinner on Tuesday night at Gallagher Estate in Johannesburg. According to Cricket South Africa, this is “the second time that Kallis has won CSA’s premier award as he previously achieved the distinction in 2004. […]

As the countdown begins to the Springboks’ first match in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in September, South Africans have been called on to rally behind their team’s defence of the title – and there are plenty of ways in which to do so. The Springboks are the current rugby world champions, […]

It’s not just South Africa’s men who are shining in the golfing world. South African professional golfer, Ashleigh Simon, won the Portugal Ladies Open this weekend! Ashleigh, who celebrated her 22nd birthday just last week, finished at 16-under 200 and won by three strokes over second-round leader Gwladys Nocera. This is Ashleigh’s second victory on […]

South African sporting great Ernie Els was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday. He joins the legendary Gary Player, who entered the Hall in 1974 and Bobby Locke, South Africa’s first international golf player, who entered in 1977. The other members of the 2011 Hall of Fame class were Jock Hutchison, Doug Ford, […]

Here’s everything you need to know (well, almost) about South African super-golfer Charl Schwartzel: He won the 2011 Masters Tournament in Augusta with a score of 274 (-14) – leaving Tiger Woods in the dust. Born in Jo’burg on 31 August 1984, Charl grew up on a chicken farm in Vereeniging and used to plough the […]