The president has turned to football to regain the trust of young people as he faces discontent over taxes and unfulfilled promises ahead of the 2027 election
ActionSA has signed up the Forum 4 Service Delivery, the ANC considers wooing Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and the MK party is fishing for the Abantu Batho Congress
It could just be Serbia, Hungary or Denmark
The country is still the world’s top exporter of footballers, but they are bringing in less money
Project at Cape Town Art Fair demonstrates the links between the sport and art
The battle for Africa’s national shirt market has taken a new turn, with some of the raciest designs coming from continental brands
This is not soccer – the one truth we need to remind ourselves of this election cycle
Rugby, represented by the Springboks, is the country’s most symbolic, just as baseball is to Americans.
Policy does not match the all-inclusive ethos of the games women excel at
The World Cup can trigger intense emotions in a way that no other sporting mega-event can
The Saudis were superb, but the Argentinians got spooked by the hovering legacy of World Cup failures past
With Mané and Salah absent, the semifinals seem as remote as ever, thanks to a glaring imbalance in development systems
The former player identifies the game that changed it all for Manchester’s noisy neighbours and talks about the club’s challenges in Europe
By bloating its showpiece, Fifa has made single-country bids impossible and dimmed the tournament’s magic
The magazine documented the now-betrayed hopes of South African football in the 1990s
Just when you thought the Spanish off season couldn’t get any weirder, Lewandowski and his costly colleagues might be left in lavish limbo
Wafcon is the women’s Afcon and the championship final is between two teams that have never won the trophy
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic taking its toll on the sport at school level, with kids missing crucial age-related developmental stages, there has been an uptick in girls wanting to play the game
PSL match attendance was low even before the pandemic. And the decline in South Africans’ appetite for football seems to have spilled over to television viewership as well
David Lacey, who died earlier this month at age 83, leaves an imposing legacy: his writing is the standard by which every football journalist will forever be judged
Wynne Dryden is dedicating his life to children in Epping Forest’s gang-riddled streets with the help of his love for soccer
Far from being the magical solution to Africa’s lacklustre football competitions, the proposed new league appears to be a case of CAF wanting to sweep its own inefficiency under the carpet
What’s been happening on the continent this week?
Not only does the ongoing resistance point to the struggle and fighting spirit of Nigerian women, but it points to their resolve to achieve against odds
South Africa will be hoping to build on an impressive Rio, but face a number of challenges
As Al Ahly take on Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa’s greatest coach has been tasked with denying his homeland a sought-after star
If you can look past the bad SuperSport suits and live-action heart attacks, the Euros offer a seductive glimpse of a post-pandemic world
The Belgian has promised to build a younger, hungrier side, as he previously did when he managed the Indomitable Lions
Florentino Pérez, the president of Real Madrid and would-be chairperson of Super League
The welcome ring of the Champions League anthem next week will be tainted by developments off the pitch
The tides of time are moving at such an exponential rate that they’ve swept up two of football’s maestros
The Al-Ahly coach was never going to put on an exhibition. This was him against Hans-Dieter Flick: two equals staring at each other across a chessboard