South African Rugby Union (SARU) commercial marketing general manager Andy Marinos has been appointed chief executive of South African, New Zealand and Australian Rugby (SANZAR), it has been announced.

Southern Hemisphere, as well as the annual Rugby Championship, played between Australia, Argentina, South Africa

missed at SARU but the consolation is that he takes with him a keen understanding of rugby in South Africa

Hockey New Zealand’s chief executive Malcolm Harris today announced his resignation, two years after taking on the role. 

Rio 2016 last week after an appeal to the International Olympic Committee designed to force South Africa

Argentina and hosts Brazil claimed titles at the second edition of an invitational rugby sevens competition on Ipanema beach, which was aimed at promoting the sport ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

reached the final of the Cape Town HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series where they were beaten by hosts South Africa

Leading African mobile communications company Vodacom has prolonged its term as title sponsor of the Super Rugby competition and associate sponsor of the South African rugby union team for a further five years.

Vodacom joined the South African Rugby Union (SARU) sponsorship family a year after launching in South Africa

Super Rugby officially started in 1996 with 12 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

issues leading the agenda at the next meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

The International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) has held a series of wheelchair fencing training courses in Sharjah om the United Arab Emirates, resulting in 27 new wheelchair fencing coaches, referees and classifiers from nine countries.

The two-day coaching course saw six participants from Malaysia, the UAE, Slovenia and South Africa successfully

Imagine securing a place at the Olympic Games only to have it snatched away from you by the organisation that are ultimately supposed to aid and help the development of sport in your country.

stage.With that in mind, it’s no wonder heads are being scratched amid strong voices of dissent in South Africa

(SASCOC), who are maintaining their harsh stance on a matter which has caused widespread debate in Africa

they feast on the energy, fervour and atmosphere around the event itself – a feeling that many South Africa

Netball powerhouses South Africa, New Zealand, England and Australia have joined forces in a ground-breaking

, will stage the inaugural event late next year.The competition will then move to England and South Africa

England, Singapore, Wales and hosts India booked their place in the semi-finals of the women’s competition at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Surat.

ImagesBoth teams’ players won each of their three singles matches against Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa

An international referee instructors course has received praise from Norbert Kucera, chairman of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) Technical Commission.

One of the key targets of the 2015 edition of the course was to provide training to instructors from Africa

women to Rio 2016 after an appeal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) designed to force South Africa

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International rugby sevens teams are set to compete in the second edition of an invitational beach competition to help promote the sport ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

reaching the final of the Cape Town HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series where they were beaten by hosts South Africa

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New Zealand's team at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in India have been playing under the wrong flag.

biennial tournament does not feature Pakistan or Australia.Singapore, England, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa

South Africa have rejected the chance to send a women's rugby sevens team to next summer's Olympics in

programme two years ago and they are trailblazers for professional women’s sport and rugby in South Africa

We will be there to provide that platform.”South Africa has already controversially rejected the chance

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earn Rio 2016 berthNovember 2015: South Africa Hockey Association to seek alternative route to

offers on back of FIH African Championships successNovember 2015: South Africa claim men and women's

has since been rolled out in Zambia and across Southern Africa following the finalisation of a new partnership