Kumamoto Volters Center Tshilidzi Nephawe had a meet and greet session with Limpopo MEC for Sport Arts and Culture Thandi Moraka on Monday at the Olympic Towers in Polokwane.

Kumamoto Volters Center Tshilidzi Nephawe had a meet and greet session with Limpopo MEC for Sport Arts and Culture Thandi Moraka on Monday at the Olympic Towers in Polokwane.

Kumamoto Volters Center Tshilidzi Nephawe had a meet and greet session with Limpopo MEC for Sport Arts and Culture Thandi Moraka on Monday at the Olympic Towers in Polokwane.

Former Bafana Bafana midfielder Eric Tinkler believes South Africa’s opening game against Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt later this month will be key to their quarter-final prospects.

The Multiply Titans will embark on a maiden tour of Namibia later this month for a two-match T20 Exhibition Tournament with the Centurion based cricket franchise scheduled to play against the Sparta Cricket Club in Walvis Bay and United Cricket Club in Windhoek. This will be the first visit by the Titans to Namibia and their veteran batsman Henry Davids says he was hoping to have been back soon after a disappointing 2018-19 season but will have to miss out on this tour due to injury.

Gerda Steyn became the first woman in history to breach the six-hour mark as she surged to a maiden Comrades Marathon crown by winning the 2019 race in record fashion in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday. The 29-year-old posted a time of 5:58:53, the quickest ever in the up-run.

Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter announced a 23-man squad on Sunday for the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt later this month. Baxter had to trim the squad from thirty players just before the team departs for a mini-camp in Dubai today. Overseas-based defenders Joel Untersee and Nikola Tavares were not considered due to paper work issues, while Rivaldo Coetzee went to visit his ill mother but never reported back for camp. Keagan Dolly withdrew after he was injured during the Cosafa Cup. Baxter only had to drop Kermit Erasmus, Fortune Makaringe and Ben Motshwari for the final squad.

New Comrades Marathon champion Edward Mothibi never imagined winning the 94th edition of the race on Sunday, saying his aim was to finish in the top 10. The 34-year-old produced a strong finish to oust defending champion Bongmusa Mthembu and clinch a maiden title in Pietermaritzburg. The Mahikeng mine worker won the up-run in a time of five hours, 31 minutes and 33 seconds (5:31:33), brilliantly following up his fourth-place on debut last year with the top prize in 2019. For Mthembu, finishing second represented a degree of disappointment as he sought to become the first South African to win three successive title since Bruce Fordyce in the late 1980s. Mothibi’s coach Nick Bester, meanwhile, praised his athlete for the victory, saying it came after a lot of hard work when he took time off from his job to spend time with former champion David Gatebe in Lesotho.

Banyana Banyana may have went down 3-1 to Spain in their World Cup debut encounter in France on Saturday, but coach Desiree Ellis has praised her troops for a prudent display. Banyana played an inspired hour where they scored first in the opening half before slipping away in the final third of the match.

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