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Singapore Heat not getting Proteas Down at World Champs

With less than a week to go before the start of the World Netball Championships in Singapore, spirits in the South African camp are very high. “There is a great atmosphere in the team,” said manager Marchelle Maroun. “The girls are training hard, but they are all keeping up well with the demands that are [...]

Fabienne Claims Classy Win at Aldo Scribante

Great race action made up for the icy winds and wet conditions at the Aldo Scribante Raceway, where the Regional Saloon Cars held the 4th round of their Championship on Saturday, 25 June, 2011. Driving for the second time in the car – first time at the Port Elizabeth Circuit, Fabienne Lanz racing in the [...]

SA’s Wonder Women Quartet for Giro d’Italia Femminile

Four South African women have displayed their prestige in the international pro road cycling world as they form part of an eight-member team to participate in a Grand Tour event. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Joanna Van de Winkel, Marissa Van der Merwe and Cherise Taylor have been selected as part of the starting line-up for the Giro [...]

Izelle Leads Athletic Performances in Chilly Pretoria Meet

The ASA Winter Meeting took place in a cold and windy Pretoria at the ABSA TUKS Stadium this past weekend, and although conditions were not ideal it was a perfect opportunity for SA athletes to test their fitness levels before departing to France for the World Youth Championships and Mozambique for the Southern Region Senior [...]

Falcons Fly High to Retain South Africa’s No 1 Trophy

Four goals from striker Martha Mokoma allowed defending champions Palace Super Falcons to Brazilian Ladies 6-0 in the final of the Sasol League National Championships held at the Seisa Ramabodu stadium in Mangaung, near Bloemfontein on Sunday. Mokoma – recently omitted from the Banyana Banyana squad which will travel to Harare, Zimbabwe this week for [...]

Wounded SA Rise to Outplay India

A rampant Investec South Africa women’s hockey team were at least six goals better than an outplayed India during the Champions Challenge playoffs match in a sodden Dublin on Friday but eventually had to settle for a 2-0 victory through goals from world record holder Pietie Coetzee and midfielder Lesle-Ann George. SA had 18 goal-scoring [...]

Untouched Palace Super Falcons Defend SASOL League Title

Chairperson of Women’s Football at SAFA, Nomsa Mahlangu believes South Africa is full of talent and nobody’s place in the national team is safe. She was speaking at the conclusion of the SASOL League National Championship Final, which Palace Super Falcons won, after beating Brazilians Ladies 6-nil at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium, in Bloemfontein, on [...]

Golden Goal Kills SA’s Champions Challenge Dream

A fairy tale tour of Europe has ended dramatically for South Africa’s touring Investec South Africa women’s hockey team, when they drew 2-2 with bottom-of Pool B’s Spain after regulation time in their quarter-final in Dublin on Thursday, only for the south European team to force the thrilling encounter in their favour with an golden [...]