Northern Junior Squash Association (NJSA) Champion Awande Malinga is looking forward to defend her first position in a closed tournament in Pretoria’s Tuks Squash Courts this coming weekend from the 10th to the 12th May. The 13 year old Malinga is rising through the ranks and recently finished in the second place in the Girls Under 16 at the SA Schools Closed squash tournament at Parkview Squash Centre.

Banyana Banyana arrived in Santa Clara, California on Wednesday night (08 May 2019) after a 31-hour flight that included a 10-hour stop in New York ahead of their international friendly with the host nation at the Levi Stadium on Sunday. Both nations will use the clash to prepare for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France early next month. Banyana captain Janine Van Wyk gives an update.

Cape Town City’s players and staff handed over clothing and other essentials today, for the victims of the natural disasters that hit Kwazulu-Natal and Mozambique earlier this year. The club’s media spokesman Vusi Ntimane says the club, which has a number of players who are originally from KZN, and also have Mozambican international Edmilson Dove, took it upon themselves to make this effort.

For Free State Stars striker Eleazar Rodgers it is a tricky place to find himself fighting to avoid relegation with one game left to go before the 2018/19 Absa Premiership season ends. Rodgers only a few seasons ago won the league while playing with Gauteng based side Bidvest Wits in 2017. Rodgers who joined Stars in July last year has been working to help the team escape the relegation zone. He has appeared in 23 league matches and scored 4 goals and four assist. The team face a mammoth task when they host Mamelodi Sundowns on Saturday (11 May 2019) in the final game of the season at the Goble Park Stadium in Bethlehem. Rodgers says winning the league and fighting relegation is equally difficult.

Former Kaizer Chiefs captain and Bafana Bafana stalwart Cyril Nzama applauds Stuart Baxter’s mentorship and believes Bafana have come full circle as they return to the African Cup of Nations in Egypt next month following a four year absence.

Former Chiefs captain and Bafana Bafana stalwart Cyril Nzama urges Amakhosi management to make drastic changes in the new season.

Though they enjoyed a four-match unbeaten run that has yielded 10 points out of 12 when they beat Baroka FC 3-1 this past weekend, Bidvest Wits coach Gavin Hunt pins their failure to win their second Absa Premiership title in three seasons to their poor results in the second half of the campaign. The win against Baroka almost ensures Wits will likely finish third and compete in CAF’s Confederation Cup next season. At home Wits collected 23 points instead of 45 that were on offer in 15 matches this season, Hunt laments the poor home record.

Maritzburg United’s approach to their final Absa Premiership clash against Baroka FC in Polokwane on Saturday (11 May 2019) has to be all about winning, according to their coach Eric Tinkler. The Team of Choice face undoubtedly one of their biggest matches in history when they travel to the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium for the must-win game that has their future hinging on the outcome. Lose and they will be relegated, but win and they will have a good chance of surviving. A draw will leave them heavily relying on other results and Tinkler says that winning is their only option.

Former South African flyweight champion Ncedo Cecane is keeping Mzimasi Mnguni’s boxing legacy alive. Cecane, who was once trained by Mnguni, is the chief trainer at ailing his former mentor’s Eyethu Boxing Gym in Mdantsane and has since produced four champions. Nkosinathi “Mabhere” Joyi holds the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa junior-flyweight title, Phila Mpontshane has the South African junior-lightweight belt, Xolani Mcotheli is the current SA junior-welterweight champion while Xolani Magusha rules in the SA minimumweight division. In the past Eyethu produced world champions in Welcome Ncita (IBF junior-featherweight), Vuyani Bungu (IBF junior-featherweight and IBO featherweight) , Mbulelo Botile (IBF bantamweight, IBF featherweight and IBO featherweight) and Zolani Petelo (IBF minimumweight).

South African women senior softball national team will begin a long road to 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when they play in the Africa Olympic qualifiers in Pretoria from Thursday until Sunday.