Perish the thought! Yet the magic of the Rugby World Cup was encapsulated in the fly-half’s boot
After a breakthrough season the orphan from Orange Farm will be heading to the Rio Olympics.
Left to sell potatoes, the disgraced cricketer says ‘sometimes the devil just gets hold of you’.
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A master of getting the basics right, Neil McKenzie has called stumps on a gilded cricketing career
The once bustling dorp in Mpumalanga is on an extended sabbatical from the modern world.
He’s unobtrusive and easy on the eye, but he’s not so anonymous that he doesn’t raise a gentle eyebrow or make a quietly favourable impression.
A walk along a road in Soweto’s oldest suburb will lead you to a cradle of heritage sites.
South Africa’s democracy is celebrating its 21st birthday, but closing the gap between the past and the present is not an easy task.
Wheelchair tennis is grounded in clumsy mobility, but its popularity is soaring in South Africa.
The annual quest for a boxing licence is a tough struggle, but those who make it live their dreams.
Ken Rutherford on the recipe for New Zealand cricket success.
After an unfortunate accident while training, Albie Morkel is back. And how.
Vibrancy has returned to Mayfair’s Somali community after the spaza shop lootings and with it, dreams of football glory.
Young talent Theunis de Bruyn has plenty of people talking – and he is not shy to do some straight talking himself.
There are signs of improvement but a lack of ambition and dedication is still prevalent.
Tug-of-war has pulled itself together at last and is again gaining traction across the land.
For a bull’s-eye view of SA’s top darts players, look no further than the Cape Town nationals.
While spreading their wrestling passion, president of SA’s Wrestling Federation Frikkie Bosse and his wife became entangled in social development.
SA has few independent bookshops, almost no worthwhile reviewing and certainly no cult of the reviewer as there is in Britain or the US.
Bent but unbowed by the crippling strike, Rustenburg Impala’s rugby team has triumphed.
Eastern Cape community clubs with deep legacies and resurrected prospects face off in an epic battle.
The Baby Proteas’ thrilling win over Pakistan in the ICC Junior World Cup Final in Dubai does not secure players a place in the cricketing pantheon.
Flanker Morgan Cushe, either the worst form of apartheid collaborator or a neglected trailblazer, died having never earned his Springbok rugby blazer.
The staged battles of the Indian Premier League 6 haven’t been between franchises but between generations, fraternal rivalries played across age.
Panic is a plausible way of understanding what went wrong in England in 1999 when SA had perhaps its best side and most realistic chance of winning.
The London Olympic Games have squeezed out every drop of emotion from the athletes, coaches and viewers, writes Luke Alfred.