South African second-tier team TS Galaxy’s journey remains one of the most compelling narratives in African club football this year, as they prepare to face Madagascar’s CnaPS Sport in a first round, first-leg match of the 2019/20 Confederation Cup this weekend.
TS Galaxy’s very presence in the continental competition is a surprise, with the Mpumalanga-based club (which was only founded in 2015) stunning South Africa’s so-called ‘Cup Kings’ Kaizer Chiefs in the final of the Nedbank Cup back in May…
Caster Semenya’s athletics career has been put on hold while she appeals a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold the IAAF’s testosterone limit.
Olympic gold medalist runner Caster Semenya has signed for South African football club JVW Girls.
Semenya announced the news on Twitter on Friday,with a picture of her holding the team’s shirt next to the caption: “Happy to announce my signing with @jvwgirlsfootball for 2020 season. Looking forward to this journey.”
The middle-distance runner — who won gold at the 2012 and 2016 summer Olympics, as well as the 2009 and 2017 World Championships — is in the midst of an appeal against the Court of…
Caster Semenya’s athletics career has been put on hold while she appeals a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to uphold the IAAF’s testosterone limit.
Olympic gold-medalist runner Caster Semenya has signed with South African football club JVW Girls.
Semenya announced the news on Twitter on Friday, with a picture of her holding the team’s shirt next to the caption: “Happy to announce my signing with @jvwgirlsfootball for 2020 season. Looking forward to this journey.”
The middle-distance runner — who won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2009 and 2017 world championships — is in the midst of an appeal against the Court…
South Africa’s friendly international fixture against Madagascar on Saturday has been cancelled.
South Africa’s soccer federation (SAFA) says Madagascar pulled out of playing an international game on Saturday, amid xenophobic violence in Johannesburg and elsewhere in the country.
Madagascar was a late replacement after Zambia’s soccer officials canceled plans to host South Africa for a game in Lusaka on Saturday.
South Africa has faced criticism from African countries during several days of violent…
As a kid dashing through the streets, ball at feet, in the mining town of Witbank in Mpumalanga, South Africa striker Percy Tau was at his happiest.
Now, watching him, it’s obvious nothing much has changed. Tau is still famously driven by this same child-like love and passion for football. It kept him going during a difficult childhood growing up, and it energised his efforts to make the sport his family’s route out of hardship.
It was this same passion that inspired his success with…
South Africa women’s national team captain Janine van Wyk has signed a one-year deal with Danish pro club Fortuna Hjorring, she announced on Saturday.
Van Wyk, who is South Africa’s most capped international footballer, male or female, played at this year’s Women’s World Cup in France, but has been without a pro deal since leaving the Houston Dash at the end of the last NWSL season.
She spent two terms with the Dash before parting ways, and returned home to play with her own club, JvW FC, which…
South Africa head coach Stuart Baxter resigned on Friday and said he felt the time was right to move on with a new cycle of Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup qualifiers on the horizon.
His decision comes just weeks after South Africa reached t…
Former Kaiser Chiefs and Orlando Pirates footballer Marc Batchelor was shot dead outside his home in Johannesburg on Monday, police have confirmed.
The 49-year-old striker, who also played for Mamelodi Sundowns, was shot in his car. Another pers…
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The emergence of South Africa’s Thembinkosi Lorch has been one of the most fascinating subplots at the Africa Cup of Nations, as the softly-spoken winger overcame family tragedy to set up Bafana Bafana’s quarter-final showdown with Nigeria on Wednesday.
In providing the match winner against Egypt in the Last 16, sending shockwaves across the continent, Lorch showed why he was named PSL Player of the Year this past season.
Even more impressively, he took to the field on Saturday only hours…