Sport Light

With less than 4 weeks to go until the 2x New Guinness World Record Attempt Indoor Rowing, the 24-Hour Rowathon, please find our media release and event poster attached for immediate release. Guest 1 on the line: Sharon Jessop -Adventurer, Conservationist, Storyteller    

The Gauteng North Womens Open was held at Waterkloof GC on 9 & 10 July.  It was a fantastic turnout, even with extremely cold and windy conditions faced on day 2. Kaiyuree Moodley defended her 2022 title, finishing 1 ahead of Danielle du Toit Guest 1 on the line: Kaiyuree Moodley    .

The adjudication committee of the Boxing SA (BSA) awards has four weeks to come up with ultimate winners in each of the 15 categories. The last three nominees from each category were officially announced yesterday at a media briefing at Premier Hotel in Durban. The awards ceremony will take place on June 30 at the Durban ICC. BSA opened the process of voting on May 8 which ended on May 22. The per...

The Comrades Marathon Association has advised supporters to take note that the usual spectator spots and associated parking areas at Lynnfield Park, Umlaas Road and Camperdown will be out of bounds on race day due to the roadworks on the N3.   The 96th Comrades Marathon race takes place on Sunday, 11 June and is a ‘down run’ from Pietermaritzburg to Durban.   Cato Ridge will be the first available...

Following the excitement of the Cape Town leg of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY Series that took place just over a week ago, Stillwater Sports is thrilled to announce that Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw, who is currently the World Record Holder in the 10km, will headline the women’s race at the Absa RUN YOUR CITY DURBAN 10K on Sunday 09 July 2023. Her world record stands at 29:14 and was set in Spain in 20...

Defending Comrades Marathon champions Tete Dijana and Alexandra Marazova will return to action at the 2023 edition of the race on June 11, race director Rowyn James said on Thursday morning. All of the top 10 men and eight of the women from 2022 have signed up for the 87.701km ultra marathon. With Gerda Steyn competing after missing last year’s race, there is a possibility that South Africans coul...

Preparations for the Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 (VNWC2023) have stepped up a gear with the famous tournament trophy arriving on South African soil ahead of the highly-anticipated event taking place from the 28th July to 6th August 2023 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. With the VNWC2023 being the first Netball World Cup to take place on the continent of  Africa, it was fitting...

Guest: Mike McGowan Mike has been competitively climbing for 2 years, and has already received Gauteng Colours and has now been selected for the SA Team. This is his dream and he has worked so hard to get here.   Competition climbing has grown tremendously over the last few years and is now an official sport in the Olympic Games.   There are three disciplines, Speed, Lead and Boulder.   Mike climb...

Guest: Ernst Gwebani – Founder of iThemba Sporting SA iThemba SportingSA is a nonprofit organisation located in Zwelihle location, Hermanus, South Africa, And is offering sports training and extracurricular activities to the kids of 10-23years in nearby schools of My Pleasant primary, Lukhanyo primary and Qhayiya senior school. When Ernest Gwebani founded iThemba SportingSA in 2014, He set out to...

Guest: Jarrod Waberski - Karting champion Jarrod Waberski heads to Oulton Park this weekend (7 – 10 April) for the first round of the 2023 GB3 championship. The South African single-seater talent has made the move up to GB3 this season, after finishing vice champion in the 2022 GB4 championship. A commendable feat in his debut season.   Despite the fact that Jarrod had never raced at any of the Br...

Guest: Russell Nugent – Race Director Brand-new, vibrant KAEM Ultra race will run together with the renowned KAEM Big Daddy, starting and finishing at Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa. South Africa, 1 May 2023 – Based on demand, the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon (KAEM) introduces a 5-day, supported, desert foot race that will cover a total distance of approximately 160km over 4 st...

Guest on the line: Richard Janse van Rensburg -Tournament Director The Cross-Border U20 Club Competition fixtures have kicked off and a total of 64 round-robin matches is set to take place with the first round getting underway on 14 April. The competition features 21 teams from the Blue Bulls, Cheetahs, Pumas, Griquas, Valke, Leopards, and Western Province Rugby Unions, divided into three sections...

Guest on the line: My details Dr Alta Withers -Chairperson of Gauteng Transplant Sports Association Contact – My details Dr Alta Withers Chairperson of Gauteng Transplant Sports Association,Also participated at the World Transplant Games in Perth in Cycling. Won Bronze in individual cycling Time trial and Silver in Team Time Trial. Placed 4th in Cycling road race event.   https://www.goodthingsguy...

Guest 1 on the line: Monwabisi Dlamini -founder of Soweto Basketball Academy. With the growing popularity of basketball at school level, Sun International has stepped in to assist the Soweto Basketball Academy with a R200,000 sponsorship of 40 brand new sneakers, three Acer laptops and non-perishable food items to help the young players not only shoot the hoops, but shoot for the stars.   Founded...

Guest on the line - Proteas assistant coach - Dumisani Chauke The Absa Wildeklawer Sports tournament is one of the most significant sporting events in South Africa, attracting participants and spectators from all over the country, taking place in Kimberley, Northern Cape. This annual event has become a platform for grassroots sports development, providing an opportunity for young athletes to showc...

What is table cricket? Guest on the line: Brad Bing - MD - Sporting Chance Foundation Table cricket is an adapted version of cricket, played on a table tennis table and specially designed to give people with a disability the chance to play and compete in the sport we all love                    

Raising funds for Sisonke Zwane to participate at the School Rowing tour in the UK Guest 1 on the line: Ntandoyethu Sisonke Zwane- from Jeppe high school for boys Nthandoyethu Sisonke Zwane (South African ID number: 0706015473087) is currently a registered student at Jeppe High School for Boys. He is in his grade 10 year. We have been made aware of Sisonke’s invitation to join the SASRU 2023 tour...

South Africa national teams test series Guest in studio: Masedi Molosiwa - polo.in.africa (to be renamed Africa Polo Network mid 2023) is a content aggregator of all the polo action across Africa. The polo.in.africa Season 2023-24 kicked off in March 2023 in Accra, Ghana with the Independence Cup and will traverse Africa ending in Lagos, Nigeria next year February 2024 with the NPA Lagos Internati...

Adaptive Surfing South Africa reached out to share the happy news that South Africa had placed 5th overall at the 2022 Pismo Beach World Para Surfing Championships which took place from the 7th-11th of December. Not only did we place 5th, but three of our incredible surfers earned podium places during the event. Several organisations representing South Africa were at the event including Made for M...

North Riding-based professional, young, talented and fearless boxer Kaine Fourie continues to dedicate his life to the sport. Fourie, well known as K9, was born in Kempton Park and his father, Kobus Fourie, was a professional boxer. K9 said that he fell in love with boxing at a very young age. “Since I was very young boxing was all over the TV, because my dad was a professional fighter as well. We...

  Not all of them can see. In fact, barely can they see. Yet, that doesn’t act as an impediment to their vision of playing like one, akin to a unifying spirit. There are Cricket teams that win. There are cricket teams that lose. And then, there’s the Blind Cricket South Africa; a team that stays true to the spirit of the Madiba-land. A team that upholds the unwavering spirit of what is meant by th...

With the assistance of Backabuddy, I set a target to walk 100km in six months. I reached that target within four months I am in need of your help to hit the finical target. I am making one last big boost, and id love for you to be a part of this fantastic journey; to date, we have raised R 57 572.14. The campaign needs 18 thousand to reach our target of R75 thousand for the Paarl School in Cape To...

At most times in our lives, at one point or another, we have come across a bully. Either when we were kids at school, or playing sport on the playground, or more surprisingly, corporate bullies in the workplace. Bullies can break one down physically, emotionally, but, most importantly psychologically. Roy Westfehling is no stranger to this scenario. As a kid he was bullied excessively in school. S...

Sailing really is for everyone. This is the message of Durban’s Sail Africa Youth Development Foundation and its “Equity, Education, Environment” (EEE) programme which has won the Hollard Sport Industry Social & Environmental Impact Award for 2022. This initiative encourages equity and gender empowerment within the sport of sailing. As an agent for social cohesion and through their aggressive...

Rosko Shane Specman, aka Speckmagic, born on 28 April 1989 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, where I spent the majority of my childhood years with my parents, older sister and younger brother. I started school at George Dickerson Primary, went on to Mary Waters Secondary School, and finished my schooling at Kingswood College. School is where I discovered my love for sport. I participated in various sp...