Aged 78, my old friend Richard Caborn has finally got around to publishing his memoirs.

There is also a full account of Caborn’s fruitful visit to South Africa to woo Nelson Mandela’s support.Most

Women's singles Grand Slam record-holder Margaret Court has called professional tennis in 2022 easier than her time as a player, during the ongoing US Open. 

Court has been a long-time opponent of same-sex marriage, and previously a supporter of apartheid in South

Africa, leading to fellow tennis player Martina Navratilova to call her a "racist and homophobe".As

Olympic, world and Commonwealth swimming champion Chad Le Clos has switched his training base to Frankfurt to join coach Dirk Lange, as he prepares for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

I am excited about this new partnership with Dirk," the South African was quoted as saying by SwimSwam

Lange was the head coach of South Africa for four years from 2004 to 2008 before moving onto the same

The South African's first task is training for the World Swimming Championships (25m) in December in

permanent facility.So far this year, Le Clos had been training on the move in several locations such as South

Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Monaco.

Guinea has been removed as host of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations by the Confederation of African Football

latest in a long line of editions of the competition to have had a disrupted build-up, with the 2012 Africa

Committee resolved to send a delegation to Guinea to inform them of CAF's decision to withdraw the Africa

Cup of Nations was held in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, as planned.The 2013 version was held in South

Africa, after it swapped 2017 hosting rights with Libya which was the scene of a civil war.Due to the

2023 and Guinea's right to hold the tournament moved to 2025.Because of weather concerns, the next Africa

Disgraced six-time Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius is to seek an early release from his 13-year prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

and is set to argue that he is eligible for parole having served more than half of his sentence.The South

homicide in 2014, and Pistorius is set to argue that this made him eligible for parole in February 2021.South

comply with prison rules, to show full remorse," Pistorius said in a statement to judges reported by South

the first double amputee to compete at an Olympic Games in the men's 400 metres and as a member of South

Africa's men's 4x400 metres relay squad at London 2012.A year previously, he had helped South Africa

The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Women's Championship is set to begin tomorrow

South Africa have picked a youthful side for the tournament and play Angola in their Group A opener tomorrow

COSAFA Women's Championship.Simphiwe Dludlu, the under-17 head coach, has been enlisted to manage the South

Africa team playing in the COSAFA Women's Championship.Tanzania, not a COSAFA member but invited to

Namibia.Zambia have never won the COSAFA Women's Championship but are coming off a third-place finish at the Africa

Cup of Nations.Barbra Banda, who missed the Africa Cup of Nations on medical grounds, is back in the

Leading Ghanaian newspaper Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) has partnered with the 2023 African Games to help support the Organising Committee's preparations for the competition in Accra.

With Egypt, South Africa, Morocco and Nigeria also participating in the African Games, we cannot say

Australia have ousted South Africa as the champions of the men's World Rugby Sevens Series to win the

the semi-finals, the Australians understood that only a triumph against Samoa would see them leapfrog South

Africa, who had finished 13th in America, in the nine-leg standings.Fiji also had a shot at the title

Africa and Fiji accumulated two and four less points respectively.Argentina and Ireland capped off the

round - the only team to do so.Australia are the fifth country to win the series after New Zealand, South

Africa, Fiji and Samoa and it follows on from the women's team winning their title earlier this year

Mexico City hosted the World Karate Federation's working group that is in charge of the referees’ standardisation project during the 2022 Pan American Karate Federation Cadet, Junior and Under-21 Championships.

karate refereeing procedures across the world ©Getty ImagesIt is due to be hosted again in Durban in South

Africa in November at the 2022 African Karate Federation Championships and then again in Uzbekistan

Four nations have a chance of capturing the men's World Rugby Sevens Series crown as the season reaches its climax in Los Angeles this weekend.

South Africa, who were recently crowned Commonwealth Games champions, lead the standings on 124 points

Africa as they seek to win the men's title for the first time.Argentina are placed third on 118 points

with double Olympic champions Fiji lying in fourth on 104.South Africa have been drawn in Pool B alongside

Africa facing the US in the opening contest."

We have to keep our own standards and not worry about our opponents," said South Africa captain Siviwe

Letsatsi the meerkat has been unveiled as the mascot for the 2023 Netball World Cup in South Africa,

I have chosen a meerkat because meerkats work together as a team and are native to South Africa," Cassidy

Africa President Cecilia Malokwane.

 South Africa are to host the next edition of the Netball World Cup ©Getty Images"We have always

said that this Netball World Cup belongs to all Africans and not only to South Africa."

Already-qualified South Africa and Malawi are competing at the ongoing tournament - which is set to end

The fifth edition of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Under-15 Baseball World Cup begins in Hermosillo tomorrow, with the defending champions from the United States playing in the opening match.

The US face South Africa in Group C, the biggest of the 13-team tournament.Venezuela plus debutants Puerto

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has met Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Doha to talk about "global football development and FIFA World Cup preparations."

At the FIFA vote which allocated the 2010 tournament to South Africa, Egypt did not receive any votes

the 2034 Asian Games and are bidding to stage the 2027 Asian Football Confederation Asia Cup.A joint South

Pierre Le Corre of France and Britain’s Lucy Charles-Barclay won the elite race titles at the World Triathlon Long Distance World Championships in Samorin, Slovakia.

a 79.8 kilometres bike and a 17.9km run at the Championships.Le Corre led alongside Jamie Riddle of South

Africa following the swim, before German Florian Angert, who won this race on the same course last year

Gianni Infantino watched on next to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud as Oleksandr Usyk defended his heavyweight boxing world titles versus Anthony Joshua at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, underlining the close ties between the FIFA President and Saudi Arabia.

the World Cup.Egypt bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup - the only time the tournament has been held in Africa

- but lost to South Africa.Saudi Arabia is due to host the Asian Games for the first time in capital