Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus on Tuesday included a host of stalwarts, who will all make a timely return from injury – including captain Siya Kolisi, Eben Etzebeth, Lood de Jager, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Morne van den Berg – in a quality match-23 to face Argentina in Buenos Aires on Saturday. Andre Esterhuizen and Ethan Hooker, who picked up niggles during the Nations Championship last month, also make a welcome return in a starting team that shows 13 changes to the si

What started out as nothing more than "a hobby for extra cash" back in 2012 will now take Betway SA20 umpire Siphelele Gasa to the grand stage of Lord’s Cricket Ground. ​ Gasa is the fourth South African recipient of the Betway SA20 and Cricket SA (CSA) Umpire Exchange Programme with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and The Hundred. ​ Lubabalo ‘Babs’ Gcuma, Stephen Harris and Arno Jacobs have all been afforded the opportunity before, with Englishmen Russell Warren, J

Sunrisers Eastern Cape captain Tristan Stubbs can’t wait to see St George’s Park bathed in orange once again as the defending Betway SA20 champions prepare to open their Season 5 title defence against Pretoria Capitalss - a repeat of last season’s final - on 17 January 2027. The Sunrisers are the most successful franchise in SA20 history, with three titles and a runners-up medal in four seasons. This has created an almost cult-like fan following in Gqeberha, with the Orange A

As LIV Golf heads to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster for LIV Golf New York, the stage is set for the 11th stop on the 2026 schedule. It's been nearly three years since the league's last visit to Bedminster and 33 players from that 2023 field return to a course that has only gotten tougher. The total yardage has been stretched by more than 125 yards, with new back tees adding length to the ninth, 13th and 16th holes. Trump National Bedminster opened in 2004 under the desig

The SA Rugby Under-20 Cup competition kicked off over the past weekend, with impressive victories for the Fidelity ADT Lions, the DHL Stormers Bolts and the Vodacom Bulls, with a number of 2026 Junior Springbok squad members showing their class. A combined total of 251 points were scored across the three opening fixtures staged in Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Potchefstroom, which delivered two away wins. The Stormers Bolts defeated the Sharks GEN by 55-22 in Cape Town; the Lio

From left to right: Ryan Dodds (AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open Project Director), Thomas Abt (Commissioner Sunshine Tour), Vincent Hardy (CEO Mont Choisy Group), Vishal Joyram (CEO AfrAsia Bank), Rana Ramdaursingh (Acting Head of Sales & Marketing Air Mauritius), Stephane Poupinel de Valence (CEO Beachcomber Resorts and Hotels), Thierry Montocchio (CEO Rogers Hospitality & Heritage Resorts) and Yannick Merven (President Mauritius Golf Federation). Sunshine Tour Defending champio

The Isuzu Bulls Daisies have set the standard in Pick n Pay Women’s Super League rugby for so long that the real challenge now is not winning, it is staying hungry. That is the question sitting squarely on the desk of head coach Zenay Jordaan as her side prepares to open its season against South Africa 'A' this Saturday. Jordaan, who won 36 caps for the Springboks before moving into coaching, has stepped up from co-head to sole head coach, and with that shift has come a delib

Across Africa, rural women face a double disadvantage as the urban-rural divide compounds gender gaps in education, employment, asset ownership, and access to financial and digital resources, the latest Afrobarometer (www.Afrobarometer.org) Pan-Africa Profile (https://apo-opa.co/4fK8G9x) shows. The new report, based on 50 961 interviews across 38 African countries in 2024/2025, shows that women are less likely than men to attain secondary or post-secondary education and to ha

Raman Khanduja, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mintoak. Mintoak (https://www.Mintoak.com/), the payments and engagement OS for acquirers, today announced the acquisition of ICC Loyalty. The acquisition expands Mintoak's footprint across the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia while strengthening its ability to help banks unlock new revenue opportunities beyond payments. Headquartered in Dubai, UAE, ICC Loyalty provides loyalty and rewards technology to over

With their first ever victory at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations behind them now, Burkina Faso have unlocked a level of confidence never seen before in their camp. Their first ever three points at the continental tournament mean so much to the Lady Stallions that they have turned things around. There is more belief, an enviable bounce in their steps when they walk and now, more than ever, they can smile ear-to-ear. A deep sigh of relief at full time broke

Faye Tunnicliffe. Faye Tunnicliffe produced a brilliant century to guide the SA Emerging Women to a 38-run win over Bangladesh Emerging Women in the third and final 50-over match at the Pietermaritzburg Oval on Monday, sealing a 2-0 series triumph for the hosts. Tunnicliffe struck 116 from just 95 balls, including 14 fours and two sixes, rescuing South Africa from a precarious position to help her side post 228 all out in 43.2 overs. In reply, Oluhle Siyo (2/19), Eliz-Mari Ma

Springbok assistant coach Deon Davids said on Monday they were ready for a gruelling challenge against Argentina when the teams meet in their one-off Test in Buenos Aires on Saturday, and quashed suggestions that the Boks see this match as a warm-up Test for the forthcoming Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry (RGR) series against New Zealand. The Boks arrived in Argentina in the early hours of Sunday morning and resumed their preparations for the match with their first field training se

BokSmart 9, the latest version of South African Rugby’s safety programme and serious head, neck, and spine, injury prevention education initiative, was officially launched by SA Rugby on Monday. The new course is now freely available on MyBokSmart and represents the next evolution of the programme in supporting coaches, referees, medical support staff, players and administrators with practical, evidence-informed player safety education and guidance. BokSmart 9 has been develo

It took two days of travel and a few more to rest and recover but once the Springbok Women went into Test mode in Suva on Monday, it was business as usual, as the main thing must always remain the main thing, according to the team’s experienced flyhalf and vice-captain, Libbie Janse van Rensburg. The Bok Women returned to the training ground on Monday, following a tough trip to Fiji, while they also had to adjust to the 10 hour time difference in the Pacific. South Africa fac

Nine capped Springbok Women have been included in a squad of 30 players that assembled in Somerset West on Sunday for the first of two camps culminating in a two-match tour for the SA Women’s ‘A’ team to Brazil later this month. The group is part of the Springbok Women Academy set-up, where players not involved in the Test match squads are training together as part of the wider national squad. Amongst those are Luchell Hanekom, who is returning from injury and Mary Zulu, who

Team SA’s successful 2026 Commonwealth Games campaign officially ended at the closing ceremony at The Hydro on Sunday night, where para athletics silver medallist Masala Makatu carried the flag. The 20-year old who won the silver medal in the men’s T12 100 metres, was Team SA’s first medallist in the track and field competition at these Games. In total, Team SA return with 28 medals, one more than at Birmingham 2022, and placed 11th on the overall medals table. In action on S

Whatever they put in the water at TuksJudo club clearly works. First it was Zack Piontek who won 2014 Commonwealth Games gold in Glasgow. Then, Michaela Whitebooi won gold at the 2022 Birmingham Games where Charne Griesel also earned bronze. Now, Timothy Meuwsen has added his name to that Tuks honours roll at the 2026 Games in Glasgow. The 24-year-old, coached by Griesel, won the silver medal in the -81kg division after what he calls a “toe-to-toe” battle with Amir Daniel Bin

The Fidelity ADT Lions are the new leaders on the Carling Currie Cup Premier Division log after the two top teams after the second round, the Toyota Cheetahs and Sanlam Boland Kavaliers, both lost their first games of the season to shake up the standings. The Lions, Suzuki Griquas, and the DHL Stormers XXIII all registered home wins in round three, while the Airlink Pumas were the only travelling side to emerge victorious. Griquas held off a spirited late fightback from the C

The Sanlam Boland Kavaliers missed out on claiming first place in the Carling Black Label Currie Cup after suffering a 20-15 Round Three defeat to the Airlink Pumas in Wellington on Sunday. A spirited Pumas side recorded their first win and the first Currie Cup loss for the Kavaliers at home since last year's tournament. The Kavaliers made an uncharacteristic start to Sunday’s clash, after conceding 12 penalties in the first half and struggling to secure clean line-out ball o

The Hollywood Foundation Pumas Women continued their winning streak in the Pick n Pay Women’s Super League 2, while AVBOB Griquas Women and the Griffons Women scored significant wins away from home in the fifth round played on Saturday. The Pumas dismantled the SWD Eagirls 44-17 at the Nelspruit Rugby Club; Griquas came back strong in their second half against Leopards Women to score a 24-19 win in Potchefstroom; and the Griffons returned victorious from Polokwane, where they

The Springboks touched down in Argentina in the early hours of Sunday morning (South American time) following the journey from Cape Town on Saturday and will resume their on-field preparations on Monday for next week’s encounter against Los Pumas at Estadio José Amalfitani. Two travelling groups flew to Buenos Aires via São Paulo and arrived at their team hotel within an hour of one another after midnight. The players will have a day off to rest and recover from the long trip

As he made his way off the track, knowing that he’d won Team SA’s first athletics medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Masala Makatu was caught up in a whirlpool of noise, backslapping and a media scrum as he negotiated his way through the mixed zone and into the safety of his support staff. For the 20-year-old from Limpopo, a product of the Rivoni School For The Blind, it was a slightly bewildering and definitely new, experience. He has had very limited vision in both eyes,

The 2026 Varsity Football Women's tournament kicked off on Saturday at the University of Pretoria and the opening day produced closely contested encounters as WSU and Wits played to a 1-1 draw, while newcomers UL marked their return with a goalless draw against CPUT. The UJ Orange Army were the only side to claim maximum points after edging TUT 1-0 in a repeat of last year’s semi-final, while hosts UP-Tuks were held to a 0-0 draw by defending champions UWC in the day's marque

Fittingly, it was the last athlete to compete in the track and field competition who brought an end to Team SA’s campaign at the Scoutscoun Stadium and with it a shiny silver medal. Kyle Rademeyer announced himself on the international stage with a huge performance to secure Team SA’s 28th and likely last, medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Still only 24, the pole vaulter cleared 5.70m in tricky, windy conditions, before being unable to clear 5.80m and leaving t

It wasn’t the medal that he wanted but it was a medal nonetheless and took Team SA’s total to 26 with the prospect of another couple more to come before the curtain drops on the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. There’s no way of sugar-coating it, Zakithi Nene had his eyes set on the 400m gold and given the form he had shown leading up to Glasgow he came in this week as the man they all had to beat. That target on his back was well earned – a 43.89 win in Paris at the end o

The SA Under-18 and SA U18 ‘A’ squads for the forthcoming U18 International Series, which will be staged in the Western Cape from 7 to 15 August, have been named. The two South African sides will take on their U18 counterparts from England, Ireland, France, and Georgia in three rounds of top-class international competition in the popular annual tournament at school venues in and around Cape Town. The series forms a key part of SA Rugby's successful Elite Player Development (E

The DHL Stormers XXIII scored five tries to claim a full five points from their Carling Currie Cup coastal derby against the Hollywoodbets Sharks XV at DHL Stadium on Saturday. In an entertaining game played in front of an enthusiastic crowd of over 14 000, the home side bounced back from last week’s defeat in Wellington with a 36-28 win. The visitors made a fast start, with winger Lyle Matthews going over for an early try. The Stormers XXIII hit back with some forward power

South Africa’s conveyer belt of sprinting talent has produced another world-class talent. Sinesipho Dambile had been a breakthrough winner on the international stage in a Diamond League meeting in Doha but now he has claimed his first senior major title. In 19.96 seconds, Dambile had recovered from having the slowest reaction time out of the blocks to tiptoeing around the bend, before he glided gracefully down the straight to win the 2026 Commonwealth Games gold medal at Glas

They say that character is defined by how you bounce back after defeat and Team SA’s netballers showed bucketloads of that in beating Jamaica 62-54 to take fifth place at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. Jenny van Dyk’s team had arrived in Glasgow with high hopes of winning their first-ever medal at the Games and their best previous finish was fourth at the 1998 event in Kuala Lumpur. It was not to be, as they were drawn in the “Pool of Death” with Australia who beat them 57-47 –

South Africa staged a spirited second-half comeback to rescue a 2-2 draw against Côte d'Ivoire in Friday’s TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 Group B clash, keeping their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals alive. Trailing by two goals at the break, Banyana Banyana showed remarkable resilience as Thembi Kgatlana and Hildah Magaia struck in the closing stages to earn a valuable point after a difficult first half. Côte d'Ivoire made the brighter start

Miané Smit. Alexandra Candler, Luyanda Nzuza and Miané Smit starred as the SA Emerging Women secured a convincing 65-run victory over Bangladesh Emerging in the second 50-over match at the Chatsworth Oval in Durban on Friday. The result gives the hosts a 1-0 lead in the three-match series after the opening fixture was washed out. Candler top-scored with a 107-ball 85 (6x4) alongside Smit’s 49 off 64 balls (7x4) as South Africa posted 256 all out in 49.3 overs. Bangladesh’s ch

Utility forward Kwanda Dimaza gets his first start for the Sanlam Boland Kavaliers in this year’s Carling Currie Cup, with James Tedder named at fullback for the Round 3 encounter against the Airlink Pumas in Wellington on Sunday (3pm). Head coach Hawies Fourie and his team have made three changes to the forward pack that beat the DHL Stormers XXIII 41-3 a week ago, alongside the inclusion of Tedder as the solo change in the backline. Domenic Smit makes room for Tedder and is

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Lood de Jager, Eben Etzebeth and Morne van den Berg will make a welcome return from injury when national coach Rassie Erasmus and his charges travel to Argentina on Saturday for their one-off Test against Los Pumas in Buenos Aires on Saturday, 8 August. The coach named a 26-man squad for the tour, which features several players returning from injury and others who have had a lighter workload over the past few weeks. Th

WAFCON 2022 champions South Africa find themselves between a rock and a hard place ahead of their Group B encounter against in-form Côte d’Ivoire at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2026 in Morocco. Banyana Banyana, who fell to Tanzania in a 2-1 loss in their tournament opening fixture, are desperate to return to winning ways when they face the West Africans who kickstarted their campaign with a 4-1 victory over 10-woman Burkina Faso. The disappointing resu

The University of Johannesburg Rugby Stadium will be the setting for this Saturday’s Carling Currie Cup Jukskei Derby Round 3 clash between the Fidelity ADT Lions and the Vodacom Bulls XV. Fresh from their 52-29 victory over the Airlink Pumas at 10bet Ellis Park last week, the men from Doornfontein head into the weekend with a winning mindset against a Bulls side who are yet to register a win in this year’s campaign. Mziwakhe Nkosi’s troops will be boosted by the return of ta

Sinesipho Dambile had arrived at the Commonwealth Games as the fastest entrant in the men’s 200m and before anyone suggests it’s a watered-down event, his time of 19.74 in a Diamond League meeting in June placed him No 4 on the world rankings for 2026. Taking to the track at the Scotstoun Stadium, widely known as the home of URC franchise Glasgow Warriors, with a backdrop of houses and a railway line, Dambile did not disappoint. He ran the perfect bend and turned on the after

Twelve venues across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia were announced as the hosts for next year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup. A spectacular ceremony in Johannesburg saw eight cities across South Africa, three in Zimbabwe and Namibia’s capital Windhoek unveiled as co-hosts for the tournament. The 12 host venues are: South Africa Wanderers Stadium (Johannesburg) Centurion (Tshwane) Newlands Cricket Ground (Cape Town) Kingsmead Cricket Ground (Durban) St George’s Park (Gqeber

The Toyota Cheetahs are travelling to Kimberley to take on the Griquas in a central South African derby on Friday at 7pm. The game will be live on SuperSport 211. Looking ahead to Friday's clash, head coach Frans Steyn stressed the importance of returning to the team's foundations. "This is our first away game and it will be tough. We have a plan and hopefully the one we have in place will work for us. There is opportunity for us." The Cheetahs have taken down the Lions and S

Varsity Football Women has become far more than a university football competition. Year after year, it continues to establish itself as one of South Africa's premier breeding grounds for future professional and national team talent with numerous players being called up to Banyana Banyana. As the 2026 tournament gets underway on 1 August, another exciting group of student-athletes will have the opportunity to showcase their abilities on one of the country's biggest university

Kaspersky's (www.Kaspersky.co.za) Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) reveals key cyber threat trends for the first half of 2026 at the recent Cyber Security Weekend for the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region (META). As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, cyberthreats are becoming increasingly diverse and sophisticated. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), coupled with ongoing geopolitical and economic instability, is contributing to the ri

She has played and beaten Fiji in the biggest cauldron of women's sevens and now Shiniqwa Lamprecht has her eyes on another big prize against the Pacific nation – a first Test cap for South Africa. The 23-year-old was on the field when the Springbok Women’s Sevens outplayed their Fijian opponents 21-15 in their 11th-place match at the 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Paris, exactly two years ago. That is a memory that she will always cherish, Lamprecht said on dep

A classic central derby lights up Friday night in Kimberley as the defending Carling Currie Cup champions, Suzuki Griquas, host the pace-setting Toyota Cheetahs in a high-stakes third round Premier Division clash, with kick-off scheduled for 7pm. Two matches are scheduled for Saturday, while the third-round fixtures will conclude on Sunday with the remaining fixture. The DHL Stormers XXIII face Hollywoodbets Sharks XV at home at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town, where the early S

At every Commonwealth Games there’s been a South African breakout swimmer who goes on to further announce their “arrival” on the biggest stage of all – the Olympics. The likes of Penny Heyns, Chad le Clos, Cameron van der Burgh and Tatjana Smith all sprung to prominence at a Commonwealth Games before two years later going on to win Olympic gold. These 2026 Games, in Glasgow, represent the “halfway point” in the four-year Olympic cycle. Like the USA has mid-term elections whic

South African apparel brand BooYaa is entering its next phase of international growth by expanding its presence in markets such as New Zealand and Mauritius, while continuing its evolution from a golf-led apparel business into a global premium lifestyle brand. The brand, which has grown from a South African startup into a business with a presence in 17 countries, says its next stage will be shaped by stronger systems, local market partners and a product range designed to move

The Leopards Women, Hollywood Foundation Pumas Women and Limpopo Blue Bulls Women will bank on home ground advantage in round five of the Pick n Pay Women’s Super League 2 on Saturday when they host AVBOB Griquas Women, the SWD Eagirls and Griffons Women, while the Valke enjoy a bye. Victories for the home sides will have a positive effect on their positions on the log, where desperation will soon become a reality for some teams. At the halfway stage of the tournament, the Pu

A 30-year wait for the resumption of tours between rugby’s greatest rivals, ended this week with the arrival of the touring All Blacks in South Africa for the start of an eight-match odyssey. The All Blacks will be hosted at a Welcome to Country event at DHL Stadium in Cape Town on Friday – a week before meeting the DHL Stormers at the same venue. Matches against the Hollywoodbets Sharks and Vodacom Bulls will precede the first Test at 10bet Ellis Park before a final midweek

When the lights came on, the stars came out inside the Tollcross International Swimming Centre. Led by Pieter Coetze, who is maturing into a global superstar in front of our eyes, Team SA’s swimmers signed off from their campaign at the Commonwealth Games in spectacular fashion when they added another six medals to their collection. That took their Games haul to 22. Job done and then some. Team SA’s swimmers were involved in seven finals on the night and left with six medals.

Pretoria in the off-season is never quiet but this year it hums with something sharper: the sound of a squad being remade in real time, under a coach who has a good lie of the land, with the biggest fixture on the calendar fast bearing down on them. Johan Ackermann’s first year in charge of the Vodacom Bulls ended in a VURC final, and it began, by his own admission, under challenging circumstances. “By January, everything looked like we were not gonna even make the play-offs,

Week two in the Carling Currie Cup proved to be a round of big results for the smaller unions, with the Hollywoodbets Sharks XV, Vodacom Blue Bulls and DHL Stormers XXIII all going down in their fixtures. It was a case of missed opportunities in a game where the Sharks XV were certainly in the running for victory but for a late rally from the hosts to create a scoreboard margin that didn’t reflect the true nature of how tight the match actually was. “We created a lot of oppor

Centre Markus Muller will make his Carling Currie Cup debut for DHL Stormers XXIII in the coastal clash against the Hollywoodbets Sharks XV at DHL Stadium on Saturday. The 19-year-old midfielder is at outside centre in one of eight changes to the starting line-up, while his fellow U20 Junior World Champion Danie Kruger and hooker Altus Rabie are also set to make their first appearance in the oldest domestic rugby competition in the world. It will be a doubleheader at DHL Stad