unwavering hold over the field at the Investec Challenge to claim the title with a 4-2 win over hosts South Africa

The world number 11 ranked team, South Africa, put up a good fight against the world number ones, but

By Duncan MackayFebruary 10 - Africa has several countries capable already of hosting the Olympics and

I don't know if there are 10 countries in Europe that can be better than South Africa in that respect

  FIFA President Sepp Blatter is regarded as a hero in Africa after he backed their staging of

 "But there are other countries in Africa that can organise an Olympic Games like Morocco, Egypt

"All those countries could organise it, but there's a prejudice - they say, 'Oh, it's Africa, they can't

will not bid for 2020 Olympics says Sports MinisterAugust 2011: South Africa still undecided about

By Tom DegunFebruary 10 - UK Sport chair Baroness Sue Campbell has become the latest high profile figure to back a bid from London to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

although the international bidding process will not officially begin until 2014.Canada, New Zealand, South Africa

By Duncan MackayFebruary 10 - Natalie du Toit, one of the greatest Paralympic competitors in history, has been appointed to the new Board of directors at the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS).

won 13 gold medals and two silver in the Paralympics during her career.Du Toit also represented South Africa

Kuala Lumpur, claimed that she is not missing competing and is happy watching new youngsters in South Africa

By Emily GoddardFebruary 8 - The National Paralympic Committee of Namibia (NPCN) now has an online presence as its official website was launched this week, just six months since the nation won its first Paralympic gold medal.

the Paralympic Movement in Namibia - from elite level athletes take part in the Paralympics and All Africa

By Tom DegunFebruary 4 - Spanish city Alicante has today been unveiled as the host of the 2013 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting European Championships which are due to take place from October 18 until 26.

'shoot-off' scenario to fight for first and second place.Under the IPC Shooting Rules athletes from Africa

By Emily GoddardJanuary 31 - Two British Olympic medal winners have been named on the 18-strong England women's hockey squad heading to the Investec Challenge in Cape Town.

international caps short of a century, Susie Gilbert and Sam Quek on the England team going to South Africa

also make the team, which will face Olympic gold medallists the Netherlands, Australia and hosts South Africa

England will face the hosts South Africa in their opening match on Monday (February 4) before taking

By Mike RowbottomJanuary 27 - Dame Kelly Holmes has said the goals she set for her On Camp With Kelly project - which has formally come to an end after nine years of operation - have "definitely been surpassed".

Commonwealth, European or global level.After the first training camp was held for eight athletes in South Africa

With Kelly races at major domestic meetings.The first "On Camp with Kelly'"event was a camp in South Africa

The youngest athlete on my first camp in South Africa Non Stanford took the ITU World Under-23 Championship

By Emily GoddardJanuary 24 - The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) has announced it will stage a event, the Sport Security Forum: Challenges and Solutions, in Cairo at the end of the month highlighting the security challenges in Egypt following the Port Said stadium tragedy.

Egyptian sport has a strong heritage in Africa and around the wider region and we hope the forum will

By James CrookJanuary 22 - The 2013 Australian Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships get underway in Melbourne tomorrow, with five-time champion Shingo Kunieda of Japan facing defending champion Maikel Scheffers of Holland in the pick of the first round ties.

taking.Number one seed Aniek Van Koot, also of Holland, takes on the tenth seed Kgothatso Montjane of South Africa

By Duncan MackayJanuary 15 - Prince Albert, one of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) most prominent members, has accepted an offer of substantial damages from Britain's Sunday Times over a story in 2011 which had claimed his wife was reluctant to marry him. 

her fleeing Monaco before the wedding.It suggested that the former swimmer, who competed for South Africa

By James CrookJanuary 11- World number one Victoria Azarenka and number four Agnieszka Radwanska will compete in the zone groups of this year's Fed Cup by BNP Paribas, the premier team tournament in women's tennis.

take part in the tournament in 2013, participating for Belarus and Poland respectively, in the Europe/Africa

By Emily GoddardJanuary 4 - South Africa has gone into mourning following the death of Olympic mountain

Meanwhile, Cycling South Africa (CSA) spokesperson Mylene Loumeau said Stander would be missed by the

By Tom DegunJanuary 5 - Germany's International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Thomas Bach has claimed there is a strong possibility that his country could mount a bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

a bid would come exactly 100 years after the French capital last hosted the Olympics in 1924.South Africa

is also tipped to bid to stage the first ever Olympics in Paralympics in Africa, while Toronto, St Petersburg

By Tom DegunDecember 31 - Italian handcyclist Alex Zanardi winning two gold medals and a silver on the same course he competed on as a Formula One driver has been voted as the top moment of 2012 by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 

Moments of 2012 was Alan Oliveria of Brazil securing a shock victory over Oscar Pistorius of South Africa

Alan Oliveria of Brazil securing a shock victory over Oscar Pistorius of South Africa in the 200m T44