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Winners of the under-12 Grand Challenge Plate, Strandfontein Mets. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Cape Town Softball Association ends junior season on a high

Cape Town Softball Association’s junior season concluded on a high note this past weekend. With a fun day filled with treats and jumping castles, the organising team hosted an…

New role for Nasief Morris

Nasief Morris is the new head coach of the University of Cape Town women’s soccer team. The former Bafana Bafana defender takes over the reigns from outgoing head coach, Ahmed…

Gugulethu teen signs with Mamelodi Sundowns

Ahlumile Bashman is officially a Mamelodi Sundowns footballer. The lanky Gugulethu prodigy netted a brace to secure his first silverware with the Brazilians at the under-13 Iber…

Seam bowler Matthew James on the attack for Bergvliet Cricket Club against Yorkshire in Lansdowne. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Yorkshire and Varsity College lead the way in First Division C action

The race for top spot in the First Division C is beginning to take shape. Victories for Yorkshire Cricket Club and Varsity College put the two top sides in the driving seat of…

Vics Hub crowned Girls T20 champs. Pictures: Lonwabo Marele

Vics Hub crowned Girls T20 champs

Vics Hub crowned Girls T20 champs. Pictures: Lonwabo Marele Victoria Hub Girls are the new T20 Girls under-19 champions. Vics Hub beat Gugulethu Hub Girls in the Western Province…

Promising super-middleweight prospect, Dylan Prosser will look to extend his unbeaten record to five wins when he squares off against Sifiso Chili, at Fight Island, at the Cabo Beach Club, on Saturday, October 19. In the picture, Prosser is with trainers from MadFit Boxing, professional mixed martial artist Don Madge, professional trainer Matt Leisching and professional fighter Wade Hammond, after a win at CPUT Bellville last year. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Fight Island to showcase city’s finest boxing talent

Cabo Beach Club at the V&A Waterfront will play host to the Fight Island boxing event on Saturday, October 19. Promoter Matt Leisching said the premium, full-scale experience…

Gugulethu Cricket Hubs’ prospect Olwethu Mathabeni, 17, was one of the rising stars in last season’s WPCA First Division A one-day campaign for Gugulethu’s senior men’s team, contributing both as a batsman and wicketkeeper. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Using cricket to bowl out youth unemployment

Cricket South Africa (CSA) in partnership with the National Treasury, Western Province Cricket Association (WPCA) and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) have launched a…

Zimasa Primary teacher Kholeka Mncedi in a jolly mood after 140 wheelie-desks were donated to the Grade 1s in Langa last month. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Zimasa Primary pupils gifted with ‘wheelie school bags’ that turn into desks

Grade 1 pupils at Langa’s Zimasa Primary School were gifted with 140 desks that fold into a rolling school bag, on their principal’s birthday, last month. The MiDesk was invented…

Igugu-Lethu dancer Mahle Dlambulo lifts Chuma Matiso, with ⁠Thimna Ndwe at back at last year’s Umoya event.

Umoya: Unity in Movement at District Six Homecoming Centre

Igugu-Lethu Arts and Leadership Project will host the production Umoya: Unity in Movement at the District Six Homecoming Centre on Saturday August 3, at 3pm and 7pm. UCT dance…

Ntombokuqala Tolashe, from 9Sai Boxing, will be in action at Vibrant Sports in Ottery on Saturday August 31, for the vacant SA featherweight title against Matshidiso Mokatsane. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

WBF Intercontinental fight postponed, new venue announced

The Dr Nelson Mandela Commemoration Boxing Bonanza scheduled to take place at the OR Tambo Hall in Khayelitsha this Saturday, July 27, has been postponed and a new venue…

With the halfway mark reaching the clock in the Cape Town Tygerberg’s Local Football Association, the race for top spot honours intensifies with each point. Hanover Park, Vasco Da Gama and Edgemead lead the race, while Fish Hoek, Sunningdale City and FN Rangers seek to exit out of the relegation zone. Pictured is Sunningdale City’s defender, Oluwafemi Moses during their match against Vasco Da Gama, in Parow, earlier this year. Picture: Monde Ngceba

Tygerberg LFA Premier Division title race heats up

With 15 games gone in the Cape Town Tygerberg Local Football Association’s Premier Division, the chase is on for top spot honours. Downberg Road’s Hanover Park Football Club…

Victorious Roses shift focus to Sasol women’s league

The Engen Knockout Challenge under-20 ladies final took place at Erica Park Stadium in Belhar on Sunday, June 9. Cape Town Roses won 5-0 against Dangerous Heroes to lift the…

The Pep Mini Netball Festival kicked off in style with a group of under-8, under-9 and under-10 pupils from 10 schools participating at Zwaanswyk Academy, on Saturday, May 11. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Pupils treated to a day of mini netball at Zwaanswyk

The faces of eager young pupils looking up at the gathering clouds was perhaps the plea the sun needed before it shone down on the Pep Mini Netball Festival at Zwaanswyk Academy,…

Former Battswood, Cape Town Spurs, FC Fortune and Durbanville Football Club striker, Ian Taylor won the Egyptian Premier League’s under-19 division with Zed FC last month. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Cape coach takes Zed FC to glory in Egypt

Ian Taylor, a household name in Cape Town football circles, led Egyptian Premier League under-19 champions, Zed FC, to their first league trophy just four years after the club’s…

Brian Ncube in action at Thaiholics Fight Promotions TFP6, in Sunningdale, last year. Picture: Hugo Klaasen

Milnerton’s Ncube sets his sights on Muay Thai title

Stiff jabs and hard liver knee kicks are some of the tools that 19-year-old mixed martial artist, Brian Ncube, from Milnerton, packs in his fighting arsenal. Ncube was knocked…

Runners tackle Two Oceans Marathon for Doctors Without Borders

Two runners who will be at the start of the Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday aim to raise funds and awareness for international NGO Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans…

Speed freak, Imtiyaaz Schultz, from Bonteheuwel, in his TrackCyclingSA colours, at the Bellville Velodrome. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Bontas cyclist survives robbery to win gold at SA champs

Imtiyaaz Schultz, 17, from Bonteheuwel, brought home a gold medal in the team sprint, two silver medals in the time pursuit and devils race (elimination race), as well as a…

Cape Town Carnival dry run at Killarney

The costumes are sewn, the glitter on hand and the groups geared up to entertain the city at the 2024 Cape Town Carnival. During a dry run by the organising team, at the…

Tournament director Rayaan Alie, with the Safa Cape Town president Bennett Bailey, and Mayoral committee member for community services and health, Patricia Van der Ross, with the captains of the teams that will participate at this year’s Bayhill Premier Cup under-19 football tournament. Picture supplied.

All systems go for Bayhill Premier Cup

With the groups drawn and media launch over, the stage is set for the 2024 Bayhill Premier Cup under-19 football tournament, which is set to take place in the week running up to…

Tramway Football Club’s versatile defender, Ikona Maliti, 14, is gearing up to represent Gugulethu, at the Gothia Cup, in Sweden, in July. Picture: Lonwabo Marele

Gugulethu footballer gears up for Gothia Cup in Sweden

Fourteen-year-old Ikona Maliti, from Tramway Football Club in Southfield, is gearing up to represent Gugulethu at the Gothia Cup, in Sweden, in July. The Gothia Cup, dubbed as…