August 25 - A chorus of song and drums, and the blare of hundreds of vuvuzelas, greeted Caster Semenya when she arrived home from the World Championships at a packed OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) President Gideon Sam claimed today South Africa

fans who welcomed back South Africa’s athletes from the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.South Africa

South Africa last won medals at the 2003 Championships in Paris, where they took four medals, two of

van der Burgh won gold and bronze medals while Gerhard Zandberg and Chad Ho each won a bronze.South Africa

returning to the Olympics in 1992 after a 32-year absence of the country's apartheid regime, South Africa

will now be drawn up for London 2012, including events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2011 All Africa

metres champion, is set to be greeted by thousands of fans today when she lands back home in South Africa

go-ahead by South Africa's Government to bid for the 2020 Olympics as it seeks to bring the Games to Africa

had been the Sports and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile who had revealed last month that South Africa

chosen.Sutcliffe said: “Our strategy is to work with SASCOC and start making the IOC aware of Durban, South Africa

and Africa."

August 23 - Patrick Ekeji (pictured), the director general of Nigeria's National Sports Commission, has promised an improvement in the performance of the country's athletics team in London 2012.

population of 148 million, is even worse because their continental rivals - Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa

August 23 - Patrick Ekeji (pictured), the director general of Nigeria's National Sports Commission, has promised an improvement in the performance of the country's athletics team in London 2012.    

population of 148 million, is even worse because their continental rivals - Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa

August 23 - Britain's Lisa Dobriskey (pictured) won a silver medal in the 1500 metres at the World Championships after being upgraded from bronze when the original winner, Natalia Rodríguez of Spain, was disqualified.    

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, meanwhile, gave South Africa a World Championships 800 metres double when he won a

August 23 - Lamine Diack (pictured), President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has launched an internal inquiry into the handling of the gender row surrounding South Africa's Caster Semenya.    

Meanwhile, Athletics South Africa (ASA) President Leonard Chuene has quit the IAAF's ruling Council,

members of the IAAF having been a member of the Council since 1999 and is the area representative for Africa

Support, meanwhile, is growing both worldwide and at home in South Africa for Semenya.  

August 23 - Britain's Lisa Dobriskey (pictured) won a silver medal in the 1500 metres at the World Championships after being upgraded from bronze when the original winner, Natalia Rodríguez of Spain, was disqualified.    

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, meanwhile, gave South Africa a World Championships 800 metres double when he won a

August 23 - Lamine Diack (pictured), President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has launched an internal inquiry into the handling of the gender row surrounding South Africa's Caster Semenya.    

Meanwhile, Athletics South Africa (ASA) President Leonard Chuene has quit the IAAF's ruling Council,

members of the IAAF having been a member of the Council since 1999 and is the area representative for Africa

Support, meanwhile, is growing both worldwide and at home in South Africa for Semenya.  

August 21 - The future of Soccer City, which is due to stage the final of 2010 World Cup, has been secured after the City of Johannesburg signed a 99-year lease on the stadium near Soweto.    

“It is imperative that this land, on which the Stadium is built, belongs to the people of South Africa

Women's World Championship TBC, China - 28 November 2009 - 13 December 2009     Africa

2009 - 14 October 2009     5th Women's Champions Challenge I Cape Town, South Africa

  2nd Women's Champions Challenge II TBC , TBC - 1 August 2011   10th All Africa

August 20 - The family of Caster Semenya, South Africa's new world 800 metres champion, have dismissed the massive controversy over her gender.  

Athletics South Africa President Leonard Chuene claimed Semenya is facing intense scrutiny because she

 FEBRUARY 9 - MASTERCARD has become the second worldwide partner of Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand, it was announced today.

IRB commercial director Huw Morgan,and Andre Sekulic, the president, of Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa