BBK Unplugged podcast

Yes, the 2019 Rugby World Cup is still on our minds and we relish the idea of peeling layers of the Springboks' third William Webb Ellis trophy. In this episode, we have another look behind the scenes, as we piece together how Siya Kolisi, Rassie Erasmus and Co. concocted the historic feat. We hear from Springbok medical team doctor Dr Jerome Mampane about the intricate conversations that went int...

One of the most talked-about episodes in rugby last year happened when former Sharks flyhalf Inny Radebe released a "diss track" venting his frustrations with the South African rugby system. In this episode, you can hear that track and hear from the man himself, Radebe, who details what his thought-process was when he recorded the song, which caused a social media storm. 

Faf du Plessis announced that he was stepping down from the Proteas Test and T20 captaincy, making way for a new leader. Quinton de Kock has assumed the reins in the white-ball formats (ODI and T20) but should Temba Bavuma replace Du Plessis as Test captain?

Without Wayde van Niekerk or Caster Semenya, two great medal hopes, Team South Africa came back from the World Athletics Championships in Doha without a single medal -- an ominous sign before the Tokyo Olympic games this year.

Kaizer Chiefs celebrate their 50th birthday this year and as a tribute, SportsLIVE put together a wonderfully packaged scripted podcast -- the first for the award-winning podcast. Narrated by SportsLIVE podcast host Sbu Mjikeliso, this is the story of Ewert "The Lip" Nene, the man who helped found Amakhosi. From his wild and enigmatic ways, to his confrontations with angry fans, mobs and dangerous...

The SportsLIVE podcast brings you a tribute episode to the 50th Anniversary of Kaizer Chiefs' formation.  In the full episode, coming up next week, we visit the founding years of the club, from the Orlando Pirates breakaway to its inimitable PRO, Ewert "The Lip" Nene. We also chatted to one of the current Chiefs generation, Lebogang Manyama, who is part of the team looking to add to the Amakhosi l...

Temba Bavuma forced his way back into the Proteas Test team after scoring runs, 180 of them in one innings, for the Lions in the domestic 4-Day competition. But his omission from the SA team that is locked in a four-Test battle with England caused a massive racial storm on social media and members of the public. In this special episode, we look at the reasons why Temba Bavuma, the first black Afri...

After England took an assailable 2-1 lead in the four-Test series against South Africa, we looked at the cause of the malaise the national South African men's cricket team is under. We hear from paceman Kagiso Rabada, who is suspended for the fourth and final Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. He talks about growing his game, learning a few lessons along the way and how the demerits and suspen...

Hard enduro biker Kirsten Landman made history in the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia by becoming one of the first African women, alongside Taye Perry from East London, to ride the toughest motorsport race in the world. Her journey to the Dakar, however, was paved with challenges, some near-fatal. Her 2013 crash in Botswana, where she suffered a lacerated spleen, severed pancreas and ripped small inte...

In the first episode of 2020 for this award-winning podcast, we went to the East London 10's tournament where we caught up with some of the chief organisers of what was a groundbreaking event for the province. The popular Old Boys 10's tournaments have, through the course of history, made their way to Brisbane, Hong Kong, Manila, Cape Town, Jo'burg and Pretoria. Finally, the Eastern Cape, the prov...

In Part 2 of our beautifully insightful conversation with Rassie Erasmus's lieutenant, performance analyst Lindsay Weyer, our last special guest for 2019 breaks down how the Springboks dismantled England. They had plenty of help, of course, coming in the form of consultant Felix Jones, who joined the Springbok management team after Swys de Bruin pulled out on the eve of the tournament. Many questi...

Performance analyst Lindsay Weyer sat next to Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus and he got the best seat in the house as South Africa's messiah led the Boks to their third Rugby World Cup title, beating England in the final in Japan. No, we are not over the victory yet. And so, we caught up with Weyer to find out how Erasmus put together the biggest World Cup heist in the game's history this yea...

In this new episode of the award-winning SportsLIVE podcast, we cross the oceans to Brisbane, Australia, to chat to one of the most fascinating characters sport has ever seen. This is the full conversation of the story that was first published on New Frame, which captured former Zimbabwean international cricketer Henry Olonga's life in exile after he took on Robert Mugabe's regime in 2003. Olonga...

The SportsLIVE Podcast was the only podcast to feature at this years SAB Sports Media Awards, winning the audio categories Newcomer of the Year award. Our host Sbu, explains what the win means to him.

Banyana Banyana head coach Desiree Ellis paid a special visit to the SportsLIVE podcast to detail the whimsical year 2019 has been for the South African National Women's team, as well as women's football as a whole. She took us through the journey of guiding Banyana to their first Fifa Women's World Cup in France earlier this year and what lessons they had learnt from the experience of facing some...

There’s trouble in paradise, if reports are to be believed, at Mamelodi Sundowns with an alleged rift between head coach Pitso Mosimane and Alex Shakoane. Allegations are that a campaign to oust the multiple league winning and CAF Champions League winning coach, Mosimane, has resumed in earnest. Are we seeing the end of the Downs Dynasty? And we are joined on the line from Alice, in the Eastern Ca...

Leader of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) General Bantu Holomisa responded to EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi's comments that the Springboks "entrenched white supremacy in the South African society". Holomisa, who was a right wing in his rugby playing days, said the black players in the World Cup-winning Springbok team were there on merit and that the coaching staff the coaching staff assem...

The AmaKhosi runaway train seems to have suffered brake failure because it is not showing any signs of stopping any time soon. Kaizer Chiefs are enjoying one of their best starts to an Absa Premiership campaign ever, having won nine out of their 11 matches played so far and losing just once. They won another hotly contested Soweto Derby last weekend, beating rivals Orlando Pirates 3-2 in a much-ta...

The Springboks arrived in the country to heroes welcome at OR Tambo International Airport, where scores of fans sang songs of jubilation, displaying an utterly joyous side of South Africa. We hear directly from the leaders of the pack that made history by delivering the third Rugby World Cup to these shores, Siyamthanda Kolisi and Rassie Erasmus. The SportLIVE podcast also caught up with former Sp...

SportsLIVE caught up with 2007 Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok Bakkies Botha ahead of the 2019 final between the Springboks and England. Bakkies faced England in the '07 final and gave his views on the big clash, England coach Eddie Jones's influence on him and his teammates, plus his prediction that captain Siya Kolisi will lift the trophy come full-time in Yokohama.

Not many predicted that the Springboks would face England in the Rugby World Cup final in Japan this year but, according to Sunday Times UK rugby writer, Stephen Jones, these are the two best teams of the tournament and they face of in a final for the ages. It's a contrast of two playing style and managerial methods between what Jones describes as the "clear-thinking" Rassie Erasmus versus the "lo...

TS Galaxy founder Tim Sukazi is known as a straight-talking, shrewd football and legal mind. The former player agent visited the Tiso Blackstar Multimedia studios to chat about what went into his thoughts in founding TS Galaxy, the GladAfrica Championship club that made history by beating Kaizer Chiefs and winning the Nedbank Cup final last season. In typical Sukazi fashion, he spoke candidly abou...

Team South Africa came back from the IAAF Athletics Championships in Doha last week without a single medal, which was in stark contrast to the 2017 performance in London, where the team finished third in the medal standings? What in heaven's name happened? We have Al Jazeera sports journalist, Peter Stemmet, who is based in Doha and was at the athletics meet, to unpack the entire shambolic Team SA...

For this episode we were joined in studio by accomplished multiple award-winning sports journalist Junia Stainbank, who spoke to SportsLIVE podcast host Sbu Mjikeliso on what it takes to become a top sports journalist. Stainbank won a hat-trick of SAB Sports Media Awards television sports journalist-of-the-year awards in his career plus a multitude of other accolade, which saw him grab the honor o...

The leader of the Khoisan Defiance Campaign, Sammy Claassen, whose organisation laid the complaint regarding Eben Etzebeth's alleged racial assault in Langebaan with the SA Human Rights Commission, called on SA Rugby president Mark Alexander to step down. This after Alexander stood in support of Etzebeth, who is facing mounting calls from the public and the community of Langebaan to be recalled fr...