Commonwealth Games

SportLuke Feltham | 2018-08-24 00:00:00

Stepping into the pool before the sun has risen is numbingly familiar for Tatjana Schoenmaker; after all, she’s been doing it since she was 14....

NewsLuke Feltham | 2018-05-04 00:00:00

There are times when patriotic fervour overrides reason. This is not one of those times.

Many Australians see the Commonwealth Games as a sporting celebration but for Aboriginal activists they symbolise invasion, dispossession and a...

SportAFP | 2017-02-28 17:13:00

Sports and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Tuesday that host city Durban may not be able to hold the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to...

SportFatima Asmal | 2014-07-18 00:00:00

In 1891, an Englishman named John Astley Cooper, writing in the Times newspaper, proposed a pan-Brittanic and Anglo-Saxon festival to...

SportSapa | 2014-03-17 11:35:00

South African gymnast Kirsten Beckett qualified for two finals at the Turnier der Meister Challenge Cup in Cottbus, Germany, at the weekend to...

South Africa is ready to host the Olympic Games and the country should bid for the 2024 edition, Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Monday.

SportSapa-AFP | 2013-09-17 12:58:00

Pakistan has won four world titles and three Olympic gold medals in field hockey. But the latest setback is part of a sequence of disasters the...