African Billiards and Snooker Confederation (ABSC) have announced snooker will be included on the programme for this year’s African Games in Morocco.

Africa is a big continent and being in the African Games will create opportunities for every company

Players in Africa will be recognised for their achievement and probably talented players will be able

Africa as a region has always made a significant contribution to snooker and this will help to develop

South Africa’s Perrie Mans, Silvino Francisco and his nephew Peter are among the leading players to have

following the withdrawal of Equatorial Guinea as hosts.Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

Egypt has been named as the host of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after beating sole rival bidders

South Africa in a vote held at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee meeting

continental body stated in December that formal applications had been received from the Egyptian and South

staging the event, after it originally said it would not compete with another Arabic country.South Africa

2021 event, having lost the rights to the 2019 edition.Breaking: Egypt @EFA will host the 2019 Total Africa

South Africa cricket captain Faf du Plessis has been suspended for one Test and fined 20 per cent of

Panel of International Cricket Council (ICC) Match Referees imposed the suspension on Du Plessis after South

Africa were ruled to be one over short after time allowances were taken into consideration.The ban was

management and Faf have accepted and respect the decision as it falls under the ICC player code of conduct," South

A member of staff from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom is helping Japan's rugby sevens squads prepare for their home 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

to Japan to advise both the men's and women’s teams on leadership and strategy.The invite came from South

Africa-based coach Paul Treu, who was appointed to Japan's coaching staff as a consultant last July

into the world of a relatively new Olympic sport.Japan's men lost the Rio 2016 bronze medal match to South

Africa ©Getty Images"During the time I spent with the teams I carried out high performance diagnostics

Africa, while their women failed to advance from the group stage.The country will also host the 2019

The number of full International Olympic Committee (IOC) members has slipped back below 100, following a string of mainly age-related departures taking effect at the end of the calendar year.

and Barry Maister, a diligent and much-respected New Zealander.The IOC's long-time representatives in South

Africa - Sam Ramsamy - and North Korea - Chang Ung - have also ceased to be full members.So have

The International Cricket Council have confirmed the teams which have qualified directly for the 2020 Men's T20 World Cup in Australia.

sides in the world as of December 31.Those sides are Pakistan, who are ranked top, India, England, South

Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.The top eight teams - which

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Dame Louise Martin described 2019 as an "incredibly important year" for the organisation in her New Year's message.

with preparations for the event well underway after the English city stepped in to replace Durban in South

Africa."

India's Smriti Mandhana has been named as the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Women's Cricketer of the Year after scooping the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Award.

The century I scored in South Africa was quite satisfying and then I had good home series against Australia

World ParaVolley has staged four courses Mozambique's capital of Maputo which were part funded by the Agitos Foundation.

 Participants came from eleven African countries, including Egypt, Rwanda, South Africa, Malawi

"Those were the best days of my life," sings Bryan Adams in Summer of ‘69.

There is no change in the designation of the [South] Korean team.

Africa was more difficult to solve, although they had not taken part in an Olympics since 1960.There

was a proposal to expel the South African Olympic Committee (SANOC).

Spectators were permitted in only one stand but as South Africa’s Piet Visagie kicked the first points

all four home unions did go ahead, but the protesters did get their way when a cricket tour by the South

The President of World ParaVolley (WPV) Barry Couzner has declared 2018 "a year of change" in his end of year address to the governing body, while acknowledging there is still "much to do".

Board for the first time.Other new initiatives saw World Championship matches played on theatre stages, South

challenges," Couzner added.Listed among those challenges were the establishment of development centres in Africa

The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) introduced goalball to India by holding a development workshop in the capital of New Delhi. 

 A similar workshop was held in South Africa last month, becoming the fourth goalball event to take

place in Africa ©IBSAA total of 132 athletes, coaches and officials from across India participated,

latest development activity carried out by IBSA Goalball, with a similar event held in Stellenbosch in South

Africa in November.This was the fourth session held in Africa so far.

As we move towards the close of another hectic, controversial, spectacular, worrying (please employ another five or so random adjectives of your choice, to taste) sporting year it is clear that we have had some very obvious highs and, yes, some very clear lows.

Other high profile Olympic champions in the ISL camp include Chad le Clos of South Africa and Britain's

stands as a significant 2018 high, however, is the ongoing sporting rapprochement between North and South

ImagesEngland's Nile Wilson won five medals in all and three golds in gymnastics ©Getty ImagesCaster Semenya of South

Africa completed the 800m/1,500m double on the athletics track ©Getty ImagesDiamanto Evripidou won four

The President of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Riccardo Fraccari has issued his end of year address to the body's members, saying 2019 will be "the biggest and most important year in the history of international baseball and softball".

Baseball5 construction projects have been announced or completed this year in Asia, [the] Americas, Africa

France, Mozambique, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Tanzania, as well as Argentina and Colombia in South