The draw for the 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled to take place later this year in Paris, preceding France's hosting of the tournament in three years' time.

draw will take into account the World Rugby rankings from January 1, 2020 - which see world champions South

Africa, New Zealand, England and Wales sit as the top seeds.The second seeds will be Ireland, Australia

I wonder how Sepp Blatter would have reacted if he had been told in 2010 that a decade on from him relenting on his opposition to goal-line technology that a match would be won after the final whistle.

the embarrassment of Frank Lampard's 'goal' for England against Germany at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South

Africa, which was not given despite the ball having clearly crossed the line.Perhaps he was right in

The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) has cancelled this year's COSAFA Cup due

The annual event had been scheduled to take place in the South African city Durban.Angola, Botswana,

Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa

across the region.The COSAFA Women’s Championship is scheduled to take place from November 3 to 14 in South

yet to commit to taking part.The COSAFA Women’s Championship is scheduled to take place next month in South

health and safety protocols will be in place, as well as utilising practices from the experiences of the South

Durban has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships after comfortably seeing off a rival bid from Düsseldorf at the International Table Tennis Federation's (ITTF) virtual Annual General Meeting.

Durban will become the first South African city to host the event after it enjoyed a commanding 90 votes

its German opponent.The 2023 World Table Tennis Championships will also be the first to take place in Africa

stripped of the 2022 Commonwealth Games after failing to provide the required financial guarantees.South Africa

the SATTB's message of how hosting the World Championships would enhance the status of the sport in Africa

University Sports South Africa (USSA) Esports Committee chair Kiran Maharaj has reflected on the growth

the chair of the USSA Esports Committee when it was set up in September 2019.There are currently 17 South

The COVID-19 pandemic has given esports further exposure ©Getty ImagesMaharaj also suggested that South

Africa needed a dedicated national esports federation to aid the development of the industry.Mind Sports

South Africa, which also oversees war games and board games, is an International Esports Federation

With the South African team, it’s a bit of a dicey situation as there is no esports federation in the

South Africa Table Tennis Board (SATTB) President Joe Carrim believes Durban’s bid to host the 2023 World

played host in 1939.The SATTB presented a 25-page bid brochure which concludes by stating "it’s time for Africa

years later we call on the world to support a bid that seeks to extend our game to the southern tip of Africa

Great Britain Hockey has announced David Ralph as the new head coach of its women's elite development programme.

also welcome opportunity to prepare and lead the England under-21 squad into the Junior World Cup in South

Africa next year."

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed the Olympic Games is the only event to "bring the entire world together" in an address given to mark International Day of Peace.

This included the unified Korean team at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Games, Nelson Mandela awarding South

Africa the trophy at the 1995 Rugby World Cup - the first major sporting event to take place in South

Africa following the end of apartheid - and the creation of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team.

A campaign backed by a coalition of former competitors, sports scientists and doctors has called on World Athletics to reverse its decision to ban Caster Semenya and other female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone from competing in certain events unless they take medication.

The #LetHerRun movement, conceived by the Africa agency, is aimed at pressuring the sport's worldwide

controversial rules were introduced, insists that the regulations are in place to protect women's sport.The South

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) is set to end disciplinary action

Reports from South African media say the sporting bodies that comprise SASCOC voted overwhelmingly to

the election.He is considered among the favourites if he does stand.Other candidates are Athletics South

Africa chairman Aleck Skhosana, Netball South Africa President Cecilia Molokwane‚ Free State Rugby President

Wayde van Niekerk revealed he is "comfortable and confident" about defending his 400 metres title at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The South African, who set the 400m world record of 43.03sec when he earned Olympic gold at Rio 2016,

 Instead, he returned to South Africa from his European camp in order to focus on the 2021 season.Van

 He acted as a flag-bearer for South Africa at the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.  

Justin Thomas holds a one-shot lead after the first round of the US Open at Winged Foot Golf Club in New York State.

shots back on three under par and tied for fifth with England's Lee Westwood and Louis Oosthuizen of South

Africa, a former British Open winner and top-two finisher at all four majors.McIlroy, who won the US

Armand Duplantis, who began this troubled season with two pole vault world records, will end it with the additional distinction of producing a world-best clearance outdoors as he achieved 6.15 metres at tonight’s penultimate Diamond League meeting in Rome.

Thompson-Herah won in a 2020 world-leading time of 10.85sec.The men’s 100m went to Akani Simbine of South

Africa in 9.96.The men’s 400m was to have featured the Olympic champion and world record holder Wayde

Bellinzona in Switzerland in 45.58 on Tuesday (September 15).Unfortunately Van Niekerk had to return to South

Africa, reportedly for family reasons, and in his absence home athlete Edoardo Scotti won in a personal

Let me start by adding to the condemnation of Iran’s execution of wrestler Navid Afkari last week.

ImagesSuspending an NOC for the decisions of the country’s Government is not alien to the IOC, which placed South

Africa in Olympic exile for more than two decades for its racist Apartheid policy.The difference in

this case is the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee was complicit in Apartheid

Incumbent Kim Andersen received the lowest number of nominations of the four candidates standing for World Sailing President in this year's election, insidethegames has learned.

all four if they wanted.Seven countries - Australia, Dominican Republic, Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, South

Africa and Tunisia - decided to nominate all of the candidates.Others including the Bahamas, Greece