South Africa’s conveyer belt of sprinting talent has produced another world-class talent. Sinesipho Dambile had been a breakthrough winner on the international stage in a Diamond League meeting in Doha but now he has claimed his first senior major title. In 19.96 seconds, Dambile had recovered from having the slowest reaction time out of the blocks to tiptoeing around the bend, before he glided gracefully down the straight to win the 2026 Commonwealth Games gold medal at Glas

They say that character is defined by how you bounce back after defeat and Team SA’s netballers showed bucketloads of that in beating Jamaica 62-54 to take fifth place at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. Jenny van Dyk’s team had arrived in Glasgow with high hopes of winning their first-ever medal at the Games and their best previous finish was fourth at the 1998 event in Kuala Lumpur. It was not to be, as they were drawn in the “Pool of Death” with Australia who beat them 57-47 –

South Africa staged a spirited second-half comeback to rescue a 2-2 draw against Côte d'Ivoire in Friday’s TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 Group B clash, keeping their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals alive. Trailing by two goals at the break, Banyana Banyana showed remarkable resilience as Thembi Kgatlana and Hildah Magaia struck in the closing stages to earn a valuable point after a difficult first half. Côte d'Ivoire made the brighter start

Miané Smit. Alexandra Candler, Luyanda Nzuza and Miané Smit starred as the SA Emerging Women secured a convincing 65-run victory over Bangladesh Emerging in the second 50-over match at the Chatsworth Oval in Durban on Friday. The result gives the hosts a 1-0 lead in the three-match series after the opening fixture was washed out. Candler top-scored with a 107-ball 85 (6x4) alongside Smit’s 49 off 64 balls (7x4) as South Africa posted 256 all out in 49.3 overs. Bangladesh’s ch

Utility forward Kwanda Dimaza gets his first start for the Sanlam Boland Kavaliers in this year’s Carling Currie Cup, with James Tedder named at fullback for the Round 3 encounter against the Airlink Pumas in Wellington on Sunday (3pm). Head coach Hawies Fourie and his team have made three changes to the forward pack that beat the DHL Stormers XXIII 41-3 a week ago, alongside the inclusion of Tedder as the solo change in the backline. Domenic Smit makes room for Tedder and is

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu, Lood de Jager, Eben Etzebeth and Morne van den Berg will make a welcome return from injury when national coach Rassie Erasmus and his charges travel to Argentina on Saturday for their one-off Test against Los Pumas in Buenos Aires on Saturday, 8 August. The coach named a 26-man squad for the tour, which features several players returning from injury and others who have had a lighter workload over the past few weeks. Th