A 45-metre penalty goal by Quade Cooper – after the final siren had sounded – edged the Wallabies to a 28-26 victory (halftime 19-11) over a shattered Springboks, on a night of high drama in the Rugby Championship on Queensland’s Gold Coast on Sunday. Cooper steered the ball unerringly through the poles from wide on […]

The Bulls delivered a masterclass in Pretoria on Saturday, beating the Sharks 44-10 in the 2021 Currie Cup final at Loftus Versfeld, setting a record in points’ difference in the competition that is more than a century old, the benchmark of provincial bragging rights in South Africa. The defending champions scored six tries on their […]

South African golfer Christiaan Bezuidenhout has spectacularly put himself in the lead, alongside Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat, at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club in the UK. He raced out the blocks, picking up five shots in four holes on the front nine and then closing with three straight birdies on the Surrey course. After […]

Lloyd Harris put up a strong fight in New York in the quarter-finals on Wednesday, but sadly ended his brilliant run at the US Open going down 7-6(6), 6-3, 6-4 to Germany’s Alexander Zverev. It was a fantastic effort from the Capetonian who went into the tournament unseeded, whilst Zverev was seeded fourth. Playing in […]

Duane Vermeulen will make his first appearance for the Springboks since the 2019 Rugby World Cup final when South Africa resume their Rugby Championship campaign on Sunday against Australia at the CBUS Super Stadium on the Gold Coast, in Queensland. The experienced No 8 – who joined the Springbok squad at the start of the […]

Incredible South African (and British) endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has completed his gruelling Climate Swim in Greenland, undertaking 7.8 kilometres in icy cold water to raise awareness about rising temperatures, and help focus attention on the world’s climate crisis. Taking to social media after the insanely challenging swim – which he calls the ‘coldest swim […]

Watch the goosebump-generating video below as South Africans warmly congratulated their Paralympic team upon their return from Japan to Johannesburg yesterday, giving them a heroes’ welcome. Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa said: “Today we welcomed the #TeamSA Paralympians at OR Tambo International Airport & expressed our gratitude to them for flying the South African flag high. […]

South African tennis player Lloyd Harris is on a roll at the US Open. The Mzansi sports star on Monday continued his dream run at the tournament in New York, overcoming US player Reily Opelka in a brilliant performance to reach his very first quarter-final in a Major ever! Lloyd toppled the 22nd seed 6-7(6), […]

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has announced that it will be a third party in the appeal matter between 800m runner Caster Semenya and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court which will be heard at the European Court of Human Rights. Semenya is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court […]

More than ever, in this age of Covid-19 and the wearing of face masks, the eyes have become the window to the soul. And standing there in the mixed zone inside the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, at 9:30pm last Saturday night, was Johan Snyders. The compulsory mask hid most of his face. But not the eyes. […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – South African Lloyd Harris reached the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time on Saturday, with a 6-4 6-4 6-4 victory over Canadian world number 10 Denis Shapovalov at the U.S. Open. A jubilant Tennis South Africa said: “The dream run continues for Harris in New York! ✌” […]

As anticipated, Ntando Mahlangu has done it again – scooping yet another fabulous Gold Medal for South Africa on Friday, 3 Sep, at the Tokyo Paralympics in Japan. Last week Mahlangu won Gold in the long jump AND broke a World Record. Mahlangu won the Men’s 200m (T61) final at the Olympic Stadium. With his […]

South African tennis player Kevin Anderson has unfortunately been knocked out of the US Open in what was a challenging match with Tropical Storm Ida disrupting play. The remnants of Hurricane Ida hit New York City region Wednesday evening with heavy rains that caused massive flooding and halted subway service. And, despite having a retractable […]

Charl du Toit, the gold medallist from Rio 2016, was unable to repeat those heroics five years later as he finished fifth in the final at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, but he played a full part in the fastest race ever run by Paralympic T37 athletes for the men’s 400m… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo. […]

Duane Vermeulen is ready to launch back into action in the green and gold for the first time since the Rugby World Cup final in 2019 after making a full recovery from surgery to his ankle, and the experienced Springbok No 8 says he will continue to give his all for his team and country. […]

Sheryl James ensured Team SA’s medals tally kept ticking over when she powered her way to a bronze at a wet Olympic Stadium on Tuesday night, to add final gloss to a day in which Pieter du Preez won the country’s third gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. James, who had narrowly missed out […]

Pieter du Preez has overcome so much in his life that he wasn’t going to be thrown off track for Tokyo Paralympic gold by another competitor swerving in front of him, almost resulting in a race-ruining, or worse, accident… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo. As Du Preez thundered down the main straight at the Fuji […]

Greg Minnaar conquered the track in Val di Sole, Italy, on Sunday to win the UCI downhill (DH) title and be crowned world champion for the fourth time! Watch the exciting video of his race below (as the commentators mention his strength and call his win “lekker”). Heavy rain on Saturday evening had made the […]

Louzanne Coetzee produced the performance of her career to win a 1500m Paralympic silver medal, in a race where she left everything out there on the Olympic Stadium track. The 28-year-old was competing in her sixth major championship event since 2013 and was understandably emotional after winning silver in a career-best 4min 40.96sec in the […]

Louzanne Coetzee, with her guide Erasmus Badenhorst, progressed to Monday’s final of the women’s 1500m (T11) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics on Sunday. She took 3.43 seconds off her previous best set at the 2017 World Championships. Coetzee had been DQ’d in the 1500m at Rio 2016 but stamped herself as a medal favourite here […]

Watch South African double-amputee Ntando Mahlangu‘s amazing world record-breaking final leap at the Tokyo Paralympics. Ntando jumped an incredible 7.17m to win GOLD for South Africa in the men’s T63 long jump… and break his own world record. Stream the Tokyo Paralympics on Showmax Pro. Subscribe before 31 August and get an extra month free!  WATCH […]

South African athlete Anrune Weyers has scooped GOLD at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan, putting SA on the medal board… and causing us to shed a few tears of joy for her, as she tearfully dropped to her knees in gratitude after crossing the finishing line. Weyers sped to victory in the women’s T47 […]

South African Athlete Ntando Mahlangu broke the world record with a final leap of 7.17m to win Gold in the men’s T63 long jump, a matter of minutes after Anrune Weyers had sped to the women’s T47 400m gold in 56.05sec. This put Team SA on the medals table at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, with […]

South Africa’s Department of Sports, Arts and Culture Minister, Nathi Mthethwa, has finally announced the financial incentives for medal winning Tokyo Games 2020 Paralympic and Olympic athletes and their coaches. The announcement means that Olympic swimming sensation Tatjana Schoenmaker, who broke a world record in the pool on her way to bagging silver and gold […]

On the third day of staying in the Paralympic village bubble “it” finally dawned on me. “It” wasn’t the sheer visual aspect of the 4 000-plus Paralympians with disabilities all in the same environment of towering 17-storey apartments and surrounded by a 4km perimeter fence… writes GARY LEMKE in Tokyo. Admittedly, that is the initial […]