Moroka Swallows striker, Lungisani Ndlela, scored a hat-trick enabling ”The Birds” to beat Zulu Royals 4-2 in PSL game played at Rand Stadium on Saturday. Swallows lead 3-1 at half-time. Ndlela scored his first in the opening minute and team-mate Dennis Lota doubled the score in the seventh.

The Stormers pulled of a dramatic 27-23 victory over the in-form Waratahs in their Super 12 match at Newlands on Saturday. It was a heart-stopping encounter, with the Stormers first racing into a 22-0 lead, then allowing the Waratahs back into the game and trailing 23-22, before right wing Breyton Paulse’s second try in the 76th minute clinched the game.

Jacques Kallis carved his name in cricket folklore in New Zealand on Sunday with his fifth century in consecutive Tests, brightening an otherwise uneventful final day of the drawn cricket Test between South Africa and New Zealand.

Italian sprinter Antonio Salamone, who rides for SA-based team Barloworld, won the world’s largest cycle race when he outsprinted the elite cyclists at the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour in Cape Town on Sunday.

South Africa earned the last place at the Athens Olympics for field hockey after beating Belgium on penalty strokes at the men’s qualifying event on Saturday. Belgium’s players slumped to the pitch as Jean-Philippe Brule pushed weakly to the right post for Dave Staniforth to save the sudden-death penalty stroke which ended the fixture.

Rahul Dravid fell one run short of a deserved century Saturday as India held on to defend its best ever total of 349 for seven against Pakistan and win the opening one-day international of the first full tour of its rival neighbor 14 years.

Defending champion Gert Thys of South Africa had an unthreatened seven-kilometre run Sunday to win the Seoul International Marathon. He took the lead at the 35-kilometre mark ahead of a front-running group led by South Korea’s Lee Bong-Ju, the 2001 Boston Marathon winner, and Kenya’s William Kipsang, the 2003 Amsterdam winner.

Northerns Titans took complete control of their SuperSport Shield match against Boland at Paarl, thanks to a monumental innings from Maurice Aronstam. The 23-year old batsman converted his maiden first class century into a double century, showing great determination while still playing his shots.