Category: Sport

Johannesburg – Never mess with a wounded animal. Stellenbosch FC should remember that when they visit champions Mamelodi Sundowns, who are engulfed by a dark cloud after a bereavement in the team. Sundowns, together with the football fraternity, suffered a great loss early this week following the death of defender Anele Ngcongca in car accident […]

Johannesburg – Three days of mourning have begun in Argentina, the home country of the late Diego Maradona. The soccer legend died on Wednesday. Maradona suffered a heart attack and had been in poor health for some time. Known for his infamous Hand of God that eliminated England for the 1986 World Cup, Maradona had […]

Next year’s Australian Open will “likely” be postponed by “one or two weeks”, according to an announcement by the state government in Victoria, Australia on Wednesday. The tournament, the first tennis grand slam of the year, is currently scheduled to get underway on January 18 with the women’s and men’s singles finals taking place on […]

Johannesburg – Former Bafana Bafana coach Gordon Igesund has remembered Anele Ngcongca as a dedicated, disciplined and organised human being who always looked after people around him. Ngcongca died in a car crash in northern KwaZulu- Natal on Monday morning and it is understood that the vehicle he was travelling in was heading towards Durban […]

Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Ahmad Ahmad banned by world football governing body Fifa for five years for financial misconduct. In a statement, Fifa said that the investigation covered Ahmad’s conduct in his position as Caf president during the period from 2017 to 2019. It was related to various Caf-related governance issues, including the […]

Cape Town – The Super Rugby Unlocked game between the Sharks and the Stormers that was supposed to take place on Saturday has been cancelled due to a Covid-19 outbreak at the Durban side. The outbreak has arisen after positive Covid-19 tests among the Sharks tight-head props, something that hasn’t made SA Rugby chief executive […]

Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather will return to the ring with a fight in Tokyo in February 2021, said organisers on Monday, but who he will fight and under what rules was left unclear. The retired former champion had already dropped hints about the fight, which follows a widely ridiculed 2018 “exhibition” match against Japanese kickboxer, […]

Johannesburg – The match between the Lions and Pumas on Saturday at Emirates Airline Park has been postponed due to Covid-19 protocols, it was announced by SA Rugby on Friday. The postponement is due to two positives tests returning to Pumas on Friday morning, after earlier in the week one player from the Nelspruit-based team […]

Cape Town – The Stormers have made five changes to their starting line-up for their Super rugby Unlocked clash against the Cheetahs at Newlands on Saturday (kick-off 7pm). Four of the changes are rotational and one injury-enforced. In the backline, Sevens star Ruhan Nel comes in Edwill van der Merwe – who picked up a […]

Johannesburg – It’s 2006, and Jake White was feeling the heat for refusing to pick Luke Watson in the Springbok team. This writer once asked him at a press conference about why he wasn’t picking a fetcher flank like Watson, and his obsession with big loose forwards who can jump in the line-outs. White’s response […]