Category: Sports

Promising halfback Morne van den Berg has been named to replace the injured Dillon Smit at scrumhalf in the only change to the Lions starting line-up for their Super Rugby Unlocked match against the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday. Van den Berg gets deserved berth Van den Berg shone in moments during the Super Fan Saturday […]

Griquas will field an unchanged starting fifteen for their home match against a much-changed Pumas on Saturday.  Kick-off in Kimberley is at 16:30. Griquas name unchanged starting XV Griquas make two changes on the bench for their first home fixture of the new local competition, both of them amongst the forwards. Prop Andrew Beerwinkel comes […]

SA Rugby advised amateur clubs, universities, associate members and schools on Thursday that their COVID-19 Committee (CovCom) had approved a proposal to allow teams to return to training under certain strict conditions, although a return to play will not be permitted in 2020. School and club rugby players can train The resumption of amateur rugby […]

Themba Zwane, Samir Nurkovic, Peter Shalulile and Gaston Sirino will battle it out for the coveted 2019/20 PSL Footballer of the Season award. The PSL revealed the full list of players nominated for top honours following the 2019/20 local football campaign on Thursday afternoon with a number of the league’s top performers making the cut. […]

The Springboks will not be participating in the 2020 Rugby Championship, which takes place in Australia at the end of the year. The reigning champions were due to kick off their title-defence against Australia at Suncorp Stadium on the first weekend of November. Springboks withdraw from Rugby Championship However, there has been in doubt over […]

Glasgow Rangers’ newly-signed South African midfielder Bongani Zungu will have to wait a bit longer before he can turn up in the Scottish Premier League. The Bafana star joined Steven Gerrard’s side on transfer deadline day on loan from French outfit Amiens SC. Bongani Zungu ruled out of Old Firm game With the league’s biggest […]

All Blacks assistant coach John Plumtree says that he felt the match officials missed multiple off the ball incidents during the 16-all Bledisloe Cup draw in Wellington on Saturday. Plumtree asked the officials to keep a closer eye on the Wallabies in what some have perceived as an effort to game the referee for the […]

Lionel Messi did his bit to help Argentina win against Bolivia away from home for the first time in 16 years, but after the match, he had to be pulled away from his opposite number. The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier in La Paz on Tuesday 13 October was played in good spirits, but Marcelo […]

The Cheetahs have named their team to face the Bulls in the second round of their Vodacom Super Rugby Unlocked campaign on Friday 16 October in Bloemfontein.    Blommetjies brings up his 100 Clayton Blommetjies will be running onto the field for the 100th time in a Cheetahs jersey (career total for the Cheetahs includes […]

The Bulls have made five changes to their starting line-up to face the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein on Friday evening, as Super Rugby Unlocked heads into round two. Returning skipper Duane Vermeulen resumes the number eight jersey while Tim Agaba, who deputised in the hard-fought win over Griquas last week, getting a rest. The powerful Johan […]