# Soccer: The Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga will host the final of the MTN8 between Orlando Pirates and Stellenbosch on the 13th of next month. The Premier League confirmed three-time defending champion Pirates has been drawn as the home team. The match will be a repeat of last year’s final when they beat Stellenbosch 3-1 […]
# Rugby: All Blacks head coach Scott Robertson has released 16 players back to their provincial squads before the two Rugby Championship home Tests against the Springboks. None of them played for New Zealand in last weekend’s loss to the Pumas. Robertson received the welcome news that key player Anton Lienert-Brown will return to action […]
# Rugby: Former Springbok captain Jean de Villiers says fans prefer the national team to win despite playing boring rugby, and questions head coach Rassie Erasmus’s game-plan which he thinks is targeted at crowd-pleasing. He referred to South Africa’s recent loss to the Wallabies when they changed their style of play, but reverted back to […]
# Rugby: Die Springbokke het in ‘n opgeruimde luim in Auckland, Nieu-Seeland, aangeland teen middernag plaaslike tyd en is opgewonde oor die uitdaging om hul aartsvyande, die All Blacks, die volgende drie weke in twee agtereenvolgende Rugbykampioenskapstoetse te pak. Die Bokke het die lang reis van Suid-Afrika na Auckland via Sydney, Australië, onderneem en sal […]
# Rugby: Springbok fans in Auckland, New Zealand, have turned into amateur detectives to try and find out when the team will land for the two Rugby Championship Tests against the All Blacks. The estimated time of arrival has not been announced, so expats are working through social media and contacting team officials to be […]
# Athletics: Australia suffered a double injury blow shortly before the start of the world championships in Tokyo. The second Australian to break the ten-second barrier in the 100-metre in May, Lachlan Kennedy, has a stress fracture in his lower back, while race-walker Jemima Montag, who won two bronze medals at last year’s Olympic Games […]
# Rugby: Legendary former Springbok scrumhalf Fourie du Preez believes Faf de Klerk should wear the number nine jersey in the Rugby Championship Tests against the All Blacks. De Klerk is on injury standby while Grant Williams, Morné van den Berg and Cobus Reinach were included for the two matches in New Zealand. Du Preez […]
# Cricket: Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin announced the end of his Indian Premier League career but says he may be available for other franchise competitions. The 38-year-old says he will immediately start exploring other possibilities. Ashwin played the first of his 221 IPL matches for Chennai Super Kings and represented Rising Pune Supergiants, Delhi Capitals, […]
# Tennis: Die Amerikaner Venus Williams en Leylah Fernandez van Kanada speel as promotorskeuse saam in die Amerikaanse Ope se dubbelspel vir vroue. Williams het al twee keer die titel verower op Flushing Meadows. Die twee is onder sewe promotorskeuses in die trekking. Die 45-jarige Williams, wat verlede maand na 16 maande na die toer […]
