Is the wait finally over? That will be the burning question on the minds of many Orlando Pirates supporters as their team face Swallows on Saturday.
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/ 24 September 2010
Rebuilding the image of a sport battered by almost 11 months of bad publicity is a priority of the newly elected Athletics South Africa (ASA) board.
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/ 24 September 2010
Sascoc has expressed concerns about the staging of the Commonwealth Games ahead of the SA team’s departure on Sunday for New Delhi.
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/ 17 September 2010
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has a long battle ahead before it can put an end to the Caster Semenya saga.
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/ 3 September 2010
Pitso Mosimane has so far managed to build on the relative success of the Fifa World Cup since he replaced Carlos Parreira as Bafana Bafana coach.
With no Soccer World Cup to distract us and interest in the game at a peak, this PSL season should be a cracker, writes <b>Phathisani Moyo</b>.
Pitso Mosimane gave an indication of his vision when he announced a 22-man squad for the friendly match against Ghana on August 11 at Soccer City.
Is South Africa the only place you will ever hear the vuvuzela at a sporting event?
As the four-week carnival of the Fifa World Cup recedes into memory, we examine two areas where the tournament could have lasting beneficial effects.
The early elimination of five of the six African teams in the Soccer World Cup has surprised Côte d’Ivoire coach Sven-Göran Eriksson.
North Korea face off against Côte d’Ivoire in the World Cup. But what is the game like off the pitch for these two struggling nations?
The advancement of football in Africa is being hamstrung by the gigantic egos of star players.
The dream of so many South Africans ended in an emotionally charged farewell for Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira on Tuesday.
Eleven games into the tournament and Ghana remains the only African team to have won a match after Cameroon slumped to a 1-0 loss to Japan.
Two of football’s biggest stars, Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi helped Argentina to hold on to a 1-0 win against Nigeria on Saturday.
Have gender tests cleared champion athlete Caster Semenya or not?
Uruguay will fancy their chances when they meet former world champions France at Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium in the second match of the World Cup.
Good, bad or Benni, Carlos Alberto Parreira has made his final squad selection. <b>Phathisani Moyo</b> assesses the chosen 23.
As Benni McCarthy is sweating off his excess
weight, coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is
preparing to trim his squad down to 23 players.
Bafana Bafana had a chaotic fixture list for their German training camp, but nobody at Safa is willing to shoulder the blame.
Disappointing performances by Bafana Bafana players overseas mean coach Carlos Albertos Parreira has to depend on what he’s got.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter may have refused to entertain any talk of banning the vuvuzela but a reprieve for disgruntled fans has emerged.
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/ 22 January 2010
The South African Football Association (Safa) has run out of cash, paralysing the administration of the country’s number one sport.
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/ 21 January 2010
Asked how he felt after he was dethroned as the number one Kaizer Chiefs supporter, Freddy “Saddam” Maake said: “I don’t want to be another Mugabe".
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/ 15 January 2010
Fifa intervention has kept Safa’s factions apart since the election that catapulted Kirsten Nematandani into the most senior position in soccer.
Zimbabweans are not big on Christmas trees, but love to decorate their homes with balloons, colourful ribbons and cards from loved ones.
The swift replacement of Raymond Hack with fellow lawyer Leslie Sedibe as the Safa CEO could have two different implications.
It used to be visible only at football matches, but the metre-long horn known as the vuvuzela has grown in popularity beyond South Africa
Despite the Bafana Bafana damp squib against Iraq, the Confederations Cup has got off to a cracking start.
The odds are heavily stacked against New Zealand’s ‘All Whites’, but Bafana Bafana still have a score to settle with them, writes Phathisani Moyo.