It was well after midnight when South Africa’s Chad le Clos faced the media after his silver medal in the men’s 200m freestyle had doubled the country’s tally at these Games and taken his personal Olympic total to three – and counting. ‘It was a crazy race,’ Le Clos said of his 1min 45.20sec heroics that saw […]

There was action for South Africa’s rowers, swimmers and a sailor on Monday. Times are Rio local and in brackets is SA time. ROWING Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls: Kirsten McCann and Ursula Grobler won their heat in 7min 07.37sec to progress straight to Wednesday’s semi-finals. In a nutshell: Better conditions for the rowers after Sunday’s debacle. McCann and Grobler […]

It’s the rematch that’s been four years in the making. Can you just imagine if it was staged by Don King Productions. It ought to be, it’s that big. In the one corner you’ve got the defending Olympic 200m butterfly champion, Chad le Clos. The confident, never-say-die South African who refuses to lose. Younger, brasher, […]

Here is a list of South Africans in competition on 8 August (Monday). Times are Rio local and in brackets is SA time. ROWING 11.30am (4.30pm): Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls (Heat 3): Kirsten McCann and Ursula Grobler 12.20pm (5.20pm): Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls (Heat 4): James Thompson and John Smith 12.40pm (5.40pm): Women’s Pair (Heat 2): Lee-Ann Persse and […]

South Africa’s national rugby side has produced a brilliant – and humorous – spoof video with a special message for the country’s Olympic athletes in Rio, Brazil. Watch the Springboks’ message to SA’s Olympic Heroes – #teamSArise #LoveRugby  

This is how winter looked today in South Africa! Exquisite! Check out beautiful Hout Bay, Cape Town, as viewed from Chapman’s Peak this afternoon. Photos by NIGEL RILEY. #StunningSouthAfrica

Tshepo Molaoele guards cars at the entrance of The Company’s Garden in St. Johns Street, Cape Town. On 3 June 2016 at about 8pm, he noticed a Citi Golf driving slowly around. It seemed suspicious. The car stopped and four men got out. They approached a similar looking Citi Golf, but one of the men […]

South African musician Don Clarke wasn’t sure whether local audiences were ready for his next song – “Blame It On The Whites”. After his extremely successful Zuma Must Fall video, Don was worried this one could be “completely misunderstood” and asked Facebook friends whether it was worth posting or not. He explained that “ultimately it’s a reconciliation song […]

There’s been a wonderful sense of pandemonium in the Johannesburg traffic this morning as the Springboks and Blitzboks celebrate South African Women’s Day with #FreeCoffeeForLadies. With signs like “hoot if you are a lady and you #LoveRugby”, the SA national rugby players chose to celebrate Women’s Day by handing out free coffee to the lucky ladies. […]

South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh has put Team SA on the Olympic medals table in Rio… just like he did in London four years ago. Although this time he won silver, not gold… but as he says “silver is a nice colour too”. Van der Burgh pulled out all the stops in the final […]

South Africa’s champion swimmer Chad le Clos kept his Olympic dream alive today as he qualified in the Men’s 200m Freestyle with a new personal best and finished in third place overall. Reporting for SASCOC today, Gary Lemke said: “Chad le Clos stuck his hand up as a potential medallist when he powered his way […]

While South Africans at home seemed to hate their Olympic team’s outfits worn at the opening ceremony of the Games in Rio… it appears the rest of the world LOVED them, with South Africa featuring in several Top 10 lists for BEST dressed team! South Africans tweeted up a storm of complaints after watching the Ceremony […]

Nando’s South Africa has done it again – seizing a political moment in South Africa to cleverly advertise one of their products… The advert features “President Jacob Zuma” playing a truth or dare game in which he’s asked if he’s really going to pay back the money. With this video, which was uploaded yesterday, Nando’s said: […]

RIO – Louis Meintjes and Daryl Impey kickstart Team South Africa’s individual Olympic campaign when they take to the roads – and hills – around Rio on Saturday in the men’s cycling road race. Both competed in the Tour de France and Meintjes rode out of his skin to finish eighth overall in the torturous […]

His trip to a debut Olympics delayed by a typhoon this week, South Africa’s sole badminton player will be looking for his own hurricane-sized upset next week. Based in Shenzhen, China, Maliekal finally arrived here on Wednesday afternoon after being set to leave Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. ‘There was a typhoon warning so I […]

STELLENBOSCH – Springbok coach, Allister Coetzee, said he is happy with the outcome of the rehabilitation and conditioning camp which finished on Thursday in Stellenbosch. A group of 19 selected players attended the four-day camp, which started on Monday at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport. The purpose of the camp was to ascertain first-hand the […]

As the Rio Olympics 2016 gets set for the Opening Ceremony tonight, the South African team has been boosted with a a brilliant show of support by a #GoTeamSA video launched by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) this morning. The video – with the SA national anthem as its soundtrack – reveals South Africans from […]

Take a listen to this South African version of The Sound of Silence that’s taken social media by storm since it was uploaded to Facebook three days ago. The cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s big hit – performed by Touch of Class with Ruhan du Toit and Deon van der Merwe – was actually first uploaded […]

On a field in Durban, South Africa, in 2012, Tendai “Beast” Mtawarira held a catapulting mate up in the air… and quite likely saved him from serious injury. His feat has become the stuff of legend and the video below has been watched over 1.3 million times! UPDATE: Beast retires from rugby. Beast’s heroic save […]

It’s been a weekend of red, blue, green and yellow as South Africans were wooed by political candidates in the final weekend before the municipal elections on Wednesday 3 August 2016. (Special Voting takes place today and tomorrow.) Here’s a wrap up: African National Congress (ANC) South Africans were out in force at the ANC’s Siyanqoba (we […]

Princess Charlene was officially named patron of the South African Red Cross at an event in Monaco last weekend. The function – on the eve of the Monaco’s annual Red Cross Gala – was attended by Constance Motshumi and Derick Naidoo from the SA Red Cross society, and entertainment came from South African singers, Cenestra […]

A moving childhood memory that went viral on Facebook last week – about friendship across the colour barriers and focussing on positive things – has a wonderful ending with Bongani Kumbula revealing that the white girl, who wouldn’t let him play in her house, ultimately became a good friend. Bongani’s post was about a day in his childhood in […]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has released a statement on social media urging citizens to reach within ourselves for solutions to global violence. The following is the South African clergyman’s statement in full: Reaching within ourselves for solutions to global violence… by Desmond Tutu, 29/07/16 Two knifemen claiming to be acting in the name of God beheaded an 85-year-old priest […]

Coca-Cola South Africa have stepped up to the challenge set by Durban resident Richard McLennan to help clean up local beaches after heavy rains earlier this week caused plastic pollution to wash ashore. Richard was horrified by the pollution – which included many coke bottles – and subsequently sent a message publically to Coke on Facebook saying “local […]

Watch South African comedian Trevor Noah let rip on his opinion of Donald Trump’s latest political antics, accusing the Republican presidential nominee of trying to grab the spotlight again “and this time, not for tanning purposes”. After Donald Trump denied any involvement in a Democratic National Convention (DNC) hacking scandal, the billionaire called on Russia to […]