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Eleven-time WSL Champion Kelly Slater of the United States at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach on March 30, 2024 at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia. (Photo by Aaron Hughes/World Surf League via Getty Images)

Surfing legend Kelly Slater, 52, says ‘this feels like the end’

Slater did not definitively say he was retiring and has hinted several times before that his professional surfing career was over

Goofy footed: Surf instructor Andrew Laverge makes a run for the Port Alfred East Pier during a 2018 club competition. (Photo: Simon Pamphilon)

The Portfolio: Simon Pamphilon

An enthusiastic amateur lucks out on a goofy footer in Port Alfred

Jordy Smith competes in the repechage heats of the World Surfing Games at Kisakihama Beach in Miyazaki, Japan. ( Matt Roberts/Getty Images)

Jordy Smith: South Africa’s surfing Olympic gold medal hope

The little-known South African surfer who’s been a world beater since the age of 14

The National Institute of Communicable Diseases has urged all South Africans to get a flu vaccination

Morocco’s women surfing the waves in taboo sport

Despite efforts to improve the status of women in the North African country, attitudes have been slow to change.

Drones saves boys trapped in 3-metre swells​

New technology sees drones deployed on beaches as life-savers

Fanning is attacked by a shark during the final of the J-Bay surf Open on July 19

Australian surfer attacked by shark in SA back in the waves

The footage of Mick Fanning being attacked last Sunday, before being rescued rattled but unscathed, sent social media into meltdown.

Visceral thrill as man beats Jaws

The spectacle of a Spielbergian scenario with a hero and happy ending delighted TV viewers.

Jordy Smith gets airborne at the Mr Price Pro event in Ballito.

Jordy Smith: Riding a wave of happiness

Champion surfer Jordy Smith is chasing a world title, but the laid-back Durbanite won’t force it, writes Jazz Kuschke.

Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker has scooped up the biggest single-wave prize in SA surfing.

Surf’s up: Twiggy picks up SA’s biggest prize

Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker has sailed into his second consecutive Oakley One Wave Wonder title to scoop up the biggest single-wave prize in SA surfing.

SA surfing team captain makes a leading start

Llewellyn Whittaker posted the highest heat tally in the open men’s division to lead South Africa on the first day of the World Surfing Games.

Senegal: surfers’ paradise without the crowds

Senegal may seem hostile to surfers at first, but the warm waters are very inviting indeed.

World champion surfer Andy Irons found dead in hotel

World champion surfer Andy Irons found dead in hotel

Three-times world surfing champion Andy Irons was found dead on

Surfing gets homeless kids off Durban’s streets

A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and on to Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.

Surfers say no to ‘radioactive waves’

A nuclear power station at Thuyspunt would be a disaster for the environment and tourism in Jeffrey’s Bay and St Francis Bay, says a surfers’ body.