As a build up to the much anticipated Gauteng Sports Awards, her compatriot and Tokyo Olympics swimming star Tatjana Schoenmaker, has been nominated for the Sportswoman of the Year award. The awards will take place on November 14, after being postponed last year due to the pandemic. The nominees announcement was made at the one […]
Bafana will be hosting Ethiopia at FNB Stadium next Tuesday. The South African Football Association (SAFA) has promised free entrance for vaccinated football fans. Should it be approved there will be a condition: vaccination certificate must be produced at the gate! As per the country’s adjusted Level 1 lockdown restrictions, only 2000 fans will be […]
It began in Ekurhuleni, East Rand today. This follows his ‘family’ address on Thursday night, in moving the county to Covid-19 alert level 1. He indicated curfew will change from midnight to 04:00. The maximum number of people permitted to attend meetings indoors will increase from 250 to 750. The maximum number of people permitted […]
For the uninitiated this is Kgothatso “KG” Montjane, a wheelchair tennis player. “KG” as she’s affectionally renowned to her fans has just bagged another deal with world’s beauty company Avon Justine. It is said ‘beauty can be deceiving’ so her opponents are in for a hiding! The deal is part of Avons’ new brand motto –Watch […]
The team open their account against Zimbabwe in the 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifier on Friday 3 September in Harare. Kick-off 3pm. With Covid- 19 a headache, Broos had to make changes in the team, following the withdrawal of some players as a result of testing positive. His charges comprise of young and new members […]
Team SA won 9 medals at theWorld Athletics U20 Championships hosted at the Moi International Sports Complex Stadium in Kenya. The competition saw(29 men and 25 women) from South Africa taking part in the action. South Africa’s men’s 4x100m champions and world record busters led the arrival delegation at the OR Tambo International Airport, which […]
Be it in Mangaung or Jozi- the stadium would be packed to raptures-thanks to its legion of fans (young and old) in their green and white dominance attire. News that it was sold to Durban businesswoman and owner of Royal AM Shauwn Mkhize, continues to haunt me. This follows the approval by Premier Soccer League […]
Matongo remained with the tried and tested with the exception of two changes. Only the portfolios of Finance and Economic Development were assigned new MMCs as Matshidiso Mfikoe and Thomas Mofokeng, respectively. Mfikoe returns as MMC Finance after having served as an MMC for EISD under the former Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau pre-2016. Meanwhile, Mofokeng […]
This follows this week’s media reports and Stats SA would like to set the record straight from the onset. The news media reported on the 2nd and 3rd of August, 2021 related to the initiatives of the Department of Health to vaccinate undocumented migrants and have made erroneous claims that Stats SA and the United […]
So, Tatjana Schoenmaker, decided to put us out of the mystery and register her country the first Gold medal, as she won the women’s swimming 200m breaststroke in a world record on Friday morning at the 2020 Tokyo Games. Beamed worldwide, she screamed with delight when she caught sight of her 2min 18.95sec mark, the […]