It's two matches and two wins for Team SA's netballers who proved too good for Tonga in their Pool A match at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, less than 24 hours after they'd opened their Glasgow campaign with a strong victory over Malawi. Pool A houses heavyweights in Australia, England and South Africa, with the top two…

Team SA began day four of the 2026 Commonwealth Games programme with six medals, all won in the pool. It was another big night at Tollcross International Swimming Centre with three more medals coming their way to take the Team SA tally to nine. Away from the swimming there was a dominant win for the…

A full house of gold, silver and bronze inside a packed Tollcross International Swimming Centre took Team SA’s medals tally to five, and counting, at these 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The gold came from Pieter Coetze, a 1.97m affable giant outside of the pool, but who has the ice-cold, ruthless temperament of an assassin…

The fine lines of sport at elite level were once again on full display at the SEC Hall in Glasgow on Saturday as Team SA’s women’s pairs lawn bowls duo again suffered the narrowest of defeats at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. They have an unflattering record of played three, lost three in Section B, but…

Like any boxer hailing from the Eastern Cape, Masibulele Siqwela knows he has a lot riding on his shoulders as he makes his way in one of the toughest of sports. “Yes, people expect a lot from me. They all say that the Eastern Cape is the Mecca of boxing.” Siqwela is sitting opposite me…

Team SA began Saturday’s Commonwealth Games programme with two medals in the bank, all won in the pool on Friday night. On Saturday night they banked another three medals with Pieter Coetze winning 50m backstroke gold, Erin Gallagher taking 50m butterfly silver and Ruard van Renen 50m backstroke bronze. The five Team SA medals have…

Team SA started the day with three medals in the bank, thanks to the gold by para swimmer Nathan Hendricks and the bronzes by both the men’s and women's 4x100m freestyle squad and are represented in six sports on Saturday’s day three of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. There are more realistic medal possibilities…

It started with a gold medal on 4th October 2010 in New Delhi. Some 16 years later, or 5772 days to be precise, Chad le Clos powered down the final 50m of water in the Tollcross International Swimming Centre, touching the wall to secure another Commonwealth Games medal. The colour, bronze, didn’t matter. It was…

Nathan Hendricks dug deep and struck gold for Team SA as the para-swimmer got the country’s medal tally rolling at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. And, as so often happens, one medal brings another one, and another and so it proved as both the men’s and women’s 4x100m freestyle relay teams earned bronze to…