South Africa
Proteas batter Lizelle Lee is relishing the opportunity to return to competitive cricket when the sixth edition of the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) gets underway in Sydney on Sunday. Lee, who made the switch from Melbourne Stars to neighbouring Melbourne Renegades this season, spent two weeks in quarantine in Adelaide before relocating to Sydney ahead […]
Cricket South Africa (CSA) is pleased to announce that Victor Mpitsang has been appointed as the new National Convenor of Selectors. The position is a full-time appointment which will commence on 02 November 2020. Mpitsang’s cricket career features two One-Day International appearances for the Proteas before injury curtailed his international ambitions. He bounced back and ended his […]
A shocked Springbok squad awoke to the news of the passing of Chester Williams, the 1995 Rugby World Cup winner on Saturday, as they continued their own World Cup journey in Japan. “This was horrible news to wake up to this morning,” said Rassie Erasmus, director of rugby. “There was a very sombre mood in […]
THE Msanzi Super League (MSL 2.0) highlighted its standing as one of the foremost T20 Global brands when a huge number of foreign players became available for this year’s draft which was held in Soweto today. There were 184 foreign players, including kolpak players, in the draft which was a huge increase on the 71 […]
Wednesday 24 July 2019 marked exactly a year to go before the world’s biggest multi-coded sporting spectacle, the 2020 Olympic Games, gets underway in Tokyo, Japan. The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) joined the rest of the world in celebrating this big milestone, in a launch event that was held at the […]
Today, Brand South Africa and the South African Consulate in Hong Kong, hosted a business breakfast to enhance the country’s Nation Brand reputation through positioning South Africa as an attractive investment destination. Coinciding with the anniversary of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “new dawn,” and renewal of business and investor confidence in South Africa, the business breakfast presented […]
The Oliver Tambo Centenary Memorial Lecture, planned by the Foundation, will celebrate the life of Tambo, who famously said: “It is our responsibility to break down barriers of division and create a country where there will be neither Whites nor Blacks, just South Africans, free and united in diversity” – and lived to make those […]
The South African u20 Men’s National Team (Amajita) will be without captain Tercious Malepe in their opening match of the 2017 CAF U20 Africa Cup of Nations when they take on Cameroon on Monday, 27 February 2017 at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola, Zambia. Malepe will be serving his one match suspension following the second […]
The Minister of Sport and Recreation South Africa Mr. Fikile Mbalula has learned about the passing of former Springbok scrumhalf Mr. Joost van der Westhuizen. “The passing of Joost is a sad chapter in South African sporting history. His contribution to our national rugby team was immense. He leaves behind a generation of athletes who […]
The ANC in Parliament commends the Ad Hoc Committee on the SABC Board in completing the first phase of its Inquiry into the SABC Board. The Ad Hoc adopted its interim report today which will be sent out to respondents for comment. The report will also be available to the public on the website of […]