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Wine farmer and retired rugby player Eddie “Kwagga” Boucher has gifted Olympic medallists Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag with a case of wine each after they won SA three medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Sascoc on Monday confirmed that Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag, South Africa’s only two medallists at the Games, would not be getting bonuses.

South Africa’s kit for the rearranged Olympic and Paralympics Games in Tokyo has been designed by four young, emerging local designers from KwaZulu-Natal.

The kit that Team South Africa will wear at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games was unveiled at the Durban ICC on Thursday.

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) wants Parliament to investigate Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s involvement in the adoption of a new board at Cricket South Africa (CSA).

Cricket South Africas (CSAs) efforts to finally extricate itself out the ending crisis. This was the impression the Olympic body, of which CSA is an affiliate, gave when Sascoc told parliament on Friday they had put together a task team to review the newly approved memorandum of incorporation (MoI). After years of wrangling and prevaricating over implementing retired Judge Chris Nicholson’s recommendations, CSA’s members’ council finally approved amendments to CSA’s constitution last W...

(Gallo Images/Jeffrey Abrahams) With Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa having taken steps to enforce section 13 (5) of the Sports Act, Cricket SA stands at the precipice that is of the members councils doing. When the members council could not arrive at the 75 percent that was needed for the facilitation of a majority independent board, Mthethwas hand was forced. CSA now stands on the brink of being de-recognised as a federation, which means theyll lose their place at the ICC tab...

Team SA to wear veldskoene at Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo By Staff Reporter Share Pretoria - SA marathon runner Gerda Steyn set a new women’s record time in Italy last week but she, like the rest of Team South Africa, will not be wearing running shoes at the opening of the Olympic Games. Instead, the athletes, swimmers and other 300 sportsmen and women of Team SA will wear veldskoene when they carry the South African flag aloft in Tokyo, Japan, for the opening ceremony in less than ...

South African businessman and Mamelodi Sundowns President, Patrice Motsepe, is expected to be confirmed as president of the Confederation of African Football ( CAF).

4 March 2021, 3:47 PM  |  Khalesakhe Mbhense  |  @SABCNews Image: SABC NewsFour-time Olympic swimming medal holder, Chad Le Clos, says hes ready to compete despite a challenging build-up. South African athletes who have qualified to compete at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan later this year, say that while the outbreak of COVID-19 has affected their preparations, they are ready to f...