Author: Lehlohonolo Scheepers

Glamour Boys Open Betway Premiership Campaign in Mpumalanga Kaizer Chiefs will begin their 2026/27 Betway Premiership campaign with a trip to Mbombela Stadium to face newly promoted Kruger United in one of the most anticipated opening fixtures of the new season. The match marks the start of a new chapter for both clubs. Chiefs are looking to build on the momentum gained from the end of last season, while Kruger United are preparing for their first ever match in South Africa’s top flight after earning promotion from the Motsepe Foundation Championship. Although the two teams have never met in an…

Orlando Pirates made a winning start to the 2026/27 Betway Premiership season after defeating Milford FC 2-0 in their opening league fixture. The Buccaneers delivered a professional performance to claim all three points, giving their supporters plenty to celebrate as the new campaign got underway. With expectations high following another successful season, Pirates showed composure, discipline and flashes of attacking quality against Premiership newcomers Milford. While the visitors worked hard throughout the contest, the experience and quality of the Soweto giants ultimately proved decisive. Pirates Set the Tone Early From the opening whistle, Orlando Pirates controlled possession and dictated the…

On 13 August 1921, in Dunedin, two teams played a rugby match that neither of them could have known would still be the most important fixture in the sport a century later. This is the permanent Springboks vs All Blacks head to head record: every series, the all-time numbers, the venue splits, the biggest wins and the World Cup meetings. One hundred and five years, 110 Tests, and a margin between the two countries narrow enough that a single tour can move it. Bookmark it. It gets updated after every Test they play, including the four in 2026. Springboks vs…

We have been previewing this competition every weekend without ever explaining the shape of it. That stops here. This is the Currie Cup 2026 log, the fixtures that decide it, and the honest permutations for who makes the semi-finals. It is a single page that gets refreshed after every round rather than replaced, so every weekend preview we publish from here on points into it. The competition runs from 18 July to a final on Saturday 12 September, which means it finishes the week after the third Springbok Test. Griquas are defending champions. The format, in plain language Eight teams.…

There is a version of this story where the Achilles ended it. Thembi Kgatlana was on the pitch at the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, in the tournament South Africa were about to win for the first time in their history, when her Achilles tendon ruptured. That is the injury that finishes careers. She was 26. Four years later she is in Casablanca, back at a WAFCON, and she is the player Banyana Banyana are built around. The basics Full nameThembi Kgatlana Born2 May 1996, Mohlakeng, Gauteng PositionForward Height1.55m Current clubTigres UANL Femenil, Liga MX Femenil National teamSouth Africa…

Almost everybody is going to get this wrong, so read the next sentence twice. The Bafana Bafana AFCON 2027 qualifiers group has four teams in it, two places would normally be available, and only one team is actually going to qualify. That is not a typo and it is not pessimism. It is arithmetic, and it is the single most important thing to understand about South Africa’s next competitive campaign. Here is why, and what it takes. The Bafana Bafana AFCON 2027 qualifiers group Group D of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, drawn on 19 May 2026 in…

You have been looking for a fixture list that does not exist. That is not your fault. There is no Rugby Championship 2026. Not delayed, not shortened, not moved to a different month. The competition that has been the spine of the southern hemisphere winter since 1996, first as the Tri Nations and then with Argentina added, is simply not being played this year. And the reason is sitting in your calendar already, taking up five and a half weeks of it. The All Blacks are touring South Africa. Eight matches, four Tests, the first proper tour between these two…

The cricket calendar may be light this week for South African fans, but there is still plenty of reason to tune in as Bangladesh’s touring side takes on a Cricket Australia XI in what promises to be a valuable warm-up contest ahead of the Test series proper. It is not Proteas cricket, but for those who follow the global game closely, this four-day fixture offers a fascinating early window into how the Tigers are travelling ahead of a significant assignment on Australian soil. Bangladesh Look to Find Form in Darwin The fixture gets underway at 02:30 SA time on Thursday,…

Four years ago this team stood on a pitch in Morocco with a trophy nobody in South African women’s football had ever lifted. On Friday, in the same country, a lot of the same players find out whether that team still exists. Banyana Banyana vs Ivory Coast is not a group game any more. It is the whole tournament compressed into ninety minutes, because South Africa have zero points, Côte d’Ivoire have three and a goal difference of plus three, and only two teams come out of Group B. Lose and it is finished with a match still to play.…

One of them did not exist four years ago. The other has been climbing since 2012. The Kruger United Milford Premiership story is the one nobody is going to write properly, because there is no traffic in it yet and both clubs are expected to go straight back down. Which is precisely why it is worth an hour of your time. In three weeks one of these squads is going to take a point off somebody’s title challenge, and you will want to have known who they were before it happened. Here is who they are, where they came from,…