South Africa’s Blitzboks are one match away from defending their Dubai Sevens title and will meet New Zealand in the final on Saturday evening. The South Africans, World Series champions, beat arch rivals Fiji 12-7 in the semi-final. After a scrappy opening to their tournament when they looked ring-rusty in beating Uganda, Neil Powell’s men […]

South Africa’s Blitzboks sevens side got their World Series off to a winning start in Dubai on Friday, ending the day unbeaten… writes Mark Etheridge. They beat continental counterparts Uganda 19-10 in their opening Pool A game. Later in the day, Seabelo Senatla scored a hat-trick to guide the Blitzboks to a resounding 48-5 win […]

The Springboks made up for last year’s history-making loss to Italy, by beating the Italians in a whopping 35-6 victory in the European country’s home territory on Saturday, clocking up their second win of the Outgoing Tour. It’s also SA’s biggest win against Italy in 20 years. Eben Etzebeth recovered from last week’s injury to […]

Aimee Barrett-Theron has become the first woman to earn selection to SA Rugby’s Premier Panel of referees after she was promoted to the top tier of match officials, along with Cwengile “JD” Jadezweni, Stuart Berry and AJ Jacobs. It means Barrett-Theron (30), who recently refereed the opening match of the Women’s Rugby World Cup in […]

South Africa’s Chad le Clos and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom were the big winners as they were crowned series champions at the Fina Swimming World Cup in Singapore, on Sunday… with Le Clos making history as he became the first male to win four World Cup titles. Both superstars collected winner’s cheques for $150,000. According to […]

South African boxer Zolani ‘Last Born’ Tete made history on Saturday night  in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the fastest World Title knock-out in boxing history! He knocked out his opponent – fellow South African Siboniso Gonya – in just 11 seconds! The previous record was 17 seconds, from a fight in 1994. The 29-year-old defending […]

South Africa has a new world champion after gymnast Bianca Zoonekynd won the double mini trampoline event at the 2017 Trampoline World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria last Sunday 13 November… an amazing achievement when just three months ago she was lying in hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung from a car accident. Victory […]

Hayley Nixon became South Africa’s latest world champion when she conquered tough conditions and a strong field to win the ICF Ocean Racing World Championships on a day that saw the SA team scooping up five medals in Hong Kong. Nixon (Euro Steel/Carbonology Sport) led home a team charge that yielded four of the top […]

The Springboks were focused on a good performance in Paris – after last week’s disastrous record-breaking loss to Ireland – and it was certainly an improvement… although calling it a “good performance” would be a stretch. It was just “good enough” for a narrow, but crucial, win. With 10 changes in the team, South Africa […]

Springbok captain Eben Etzebeth said he and his team-mates are focussed on delivering a good performance on Saturday evening against France, when the two teams meet at the Stade de France. “We have a job to do on Saturday and our focus is on the game,” said Etzebeth. “I am sure back home everyone is […]

Extra seats will be installed and 3000 additional tickets per day be made available for the previously sold-out Cape Town Sevens tournament, SA Rugby confirmed on Thursday. The highly-popular second leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series will take place at the Cape Town Stadium on 9 and 10 December. Temporary seating in the top […]

SA Rugby said it was “bitterly disappointed” at the decision by the World Rugby Council to overturn a recommendation that South Africa should host the 2023 Rugby World Cup and instead voted for France to host the tournament in a secret ballot. “We are bitterly disappointed at this decision and would like to apologise to […]

World Rugby‏ has confirmed that South Africa has not been awarded the Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023, despite being nominated by World Rugby as the preferred candidate. In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, World Rugby said: “Congratulations to France who has been awarded Rugby World Cup 2023 following World Rugby Council’s vote #RWC2023.” The vote was […]

The South African Government is urging the public to wear green on Wednesday in support of the announcement regarding which country will host the Rugby World Cup 2023 tournament. The hotly anticipated final announcement on whether South Africa will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup will be made on Wednesday at around 3pm South African […]

Ireland celebrated its biggest victory ever over South Africa in a mega 38-3 win for the home team, in Dublin on Saturday. It was more than just the luck of the Irish. The Springboks sadly did not perform well in this, the first of their Northern Hemisphere tour. In fact it was one of their […]

Two costly errors by Bafana Bafana defenders put paid to South Africa’s hopes of going to the FIFA World Cup in Russia 2018 as Senegal glided to a 2-0 win over the home side at a packed Peter Mokaba Stadium on Friday evening. Needing nothing short of victory to keep their hopes alive, South Africa […]

Springbok captain Eben Etzebeth said on Friday that his team is looking forward to test themselves against a very good Irish team on Saturday at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. “We know it’s going to be a real tough Test but we are looking forward to resuming our battle against the Irish. We had an […]

Just a day after his 82nd birthday, South Africa’s legendary golf champion Gary Player was inducted into the PGA of America Hall of Fame, along with Renee Powell, Mickey Wright and Lew Worsham. PGA said the sportsmen are a foursome that “impacted American and global golf”. Player said he was honoured and that he’s “very […]

In between American President Donald Trump’s hectic schedule of mouthing off about the alleged terrorist in the New York West Side truck attack, and the need to end “chain migration” (when family members are permitted to follow – watch below), attending a cabinet meeting and promising an announcement today on who the new Federal Reserve […]

The Springboks will kick off their 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan with a blockbuster opening encounter against the reigning champions, New Zealand, on Saturday 21 September 2019 in the International Stadium Yokohama. World Rugby announced the draw for RWC 2019 in Tokyo on Thursday morning (SA time) – the tournament will start on Friday, […]

South Africa and the world’s golden boy of athletics, Wayde van Niekerk, will sadly not be able to compete in next year’s Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia. The Olympic and world 400-metre champion is due for urgent knee surgery in the United States. Touch rugby proved too tough on the day for Van […]

Sjoe. Watch South Africa’s Rugby World Cup (RWC) bid video which has helped SA be nominated as the preferred candidate to host the RWC in 2023. Watch #SA2023 RWC Bid Video South Africa was today named as the “clear leader”, ahead of fellow bidders France and Ireland… as the country best able to fulfil the […]

South Africa would deliver a “triple win” Rugby World Cup in 2023, pledged SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux on Tuesday after World Rugby announced that South Africa was the preferred candidate after a rigorous assessment of the competing bids. South Africa was named in preference to fellow bidders France and Ireland as the candidate best […]

David Miller wrote his name into the annals of the shortest format when he smashed the fastest ever century in the history of T20 International cricket to set South Africa’s Proteas up for an 83-run victory in the final match of the Bangladesh tour at Senwes Park on Sunday. The victory gave the Proteas a […]

Western Province produced a strong second-half display and held their nerve late in the hard-fought Currie Cup Final in Durban on Saturday for a 33-21 victory, and their first title since 2014. The hosts edged their way to a 21-15 halftime lead to the delight of a passionate home crowd of 32 562 people at […]