This has left me speechless – Van Niekerk
By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham
The Commonwealth is conquered, now bring on the world. For the second time in 72 hours, Lara van Niekerk blew away the opposition on the way to winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, this time adding the 100m breaststroke title to the 50m crown she won so impressively.
Still only 19, Van Niekerk has come out of the shadows and is now set to blaze a breaststroke trail that Penny Heyns started in the 1990s when she broke 14 world records and won three Olympic medals, and which Tatjana Schoenmaker ...
Locked and loaded Bongco chasing a dream
By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham
They call it one of the ‘prettiest punches’ in all boxing. When applied correctly, it can change the course of a fight in a split second. Simnikiwe Bongco throws it and it thuds into the heavy bag. He stops, admiring his work. “Yoh! My left hook is too dangerous,” he smiles. “It’s my powerpoint. I can punch your lights out at any time with it,” he says.
Bongco is South Africa’s latest leading amateur hope. Like so many boxers before him, he grew up on the dangerous streets of the Duncan Village township outsi...
Commonwealth Games 2022 | South Africa win the all-African battle in Birmingham
South Africa underlined their dominance on the African continent with a dismissive victory over their East African neighbours in Birmingham today. Hat-tricks from Jean-Leigh du Toit, Tarryn Lombard and Lilian du Plessis were enough to give the South Africans a comfortable win that mathematically keeps them in with a medal hope.
South Africa and Kenya saw the first All African affair of the 2022 Commonwealth Games take place in Birmingham. Both teams were looking for their first victories of the...
AQIL HITS SCOTLAND FOR A SIX
by Motorsport Media - 1 Aug 2022 06:00:00
What
Ginetta Junior Championship Round 7 Report
Where
Knockhill, Scotland
When
30-31 July 2022
Community
International
Another strong Ginetta points haul for Alibhai
Johannesburg young gun race driver Aqil Alibhai quite literally hit a six in the weekend’s Knockhill, Scotland seventh round Michelin Ginetta Junior races over the weekend. Alibhai qualified his yellow Elite Motorsports Ginetta in tenth place on Saturday morning before racing to sixth place in each of the three races.
“I had ...
Nienaber opts for continuity as Marx strikes 50
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber made three changes to his starting team that ran out for their final Test against Wales for their opening Castle Lager Rugby Championship fixture against New Zealand in Nelspruit on Saturday, where Malcolm Marx will earn his 50th Test cap.
Marx will run out at hooker in place of Bongi Mbonambi, while Faf de Klerk comes in at scrumhalf in a rotational switch with Jaden Hendrikse. The only injury-enforced change is on the right wing, where Kurt-Lee Arendse will earn his second Test cap in place of Chesli...
SA's Ramphadi wins Belgian Open title
South Africa's Donald Ramphadi wins at the Belgian Open
South Africa's Donald Ramphadi has won the wheelchair quad singles title at the Belgian Open (ITF 1 series) tennis tournament in Jambes, Belgium.
Ramphadi, 29, defeated American top seed David Wagner 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 in the final on Sunday.
The world number 6 from Tzaneen in Limpopo also clinched the runners-up position in the doubles competition with his Japanese partner Kei Usami. They went down to Ymanitu Silva (Brazil) and Marcus Lauden (Germany) 3-6, 0-...
CURRO TENNIS STAR MAKES IT TO ITF JUNIOR 1
The Curro International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior 1 tournament is currently taking place at Curro Hillcrest in Durban with top under 18 players from all over the world participating.
Following her participation at the African Junior Teams Championships in Egypt recently, local tennis player and Curro Hillcrest learner, Kaitlyn Ramduth (seeded at 1486) received a wild card to participate in the Curro ITF Junior 1 tournament’s main draw starting on Tuesday, 2 August. Kaitlyn also received a wild card for the Junior 2 ITF t...
