Commonwealth Games 2018:- Sevens shocker as TeamSA fail to get a medal

Team South Africa ended the 2018 Commonwealth Games the opposite way that it started – with a bit of a let down. The South African Sevens sides failed to win a single medal as the Gold Coast event wrapped up.

They ended Sunday’s final day empty-handed when both the men’s and women’s rugby sevens sides failed to add to the tally.

To be honest, the women’s side were never expected to medal as new coach Paul Delport is still finding his feet and needs to gel with the squad – but the men were a different story.

Many thought the fact that they ‘only’ won bronze at the Rio Olympics two years ago could be interpreted as a failure but here on the Gold Coast, they were defending the title they won in Glasgow four years ago.

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Springboks to kick off 2018 Rugby Championship against Argentina in Durban

Once again, the Boks will kick off their Rugby Championship campaign with back to back games against the Pumas.

The fixtures list for the 2018 Rugby Championship was revealed on Thursday, and the Springboks will kick off their campaign against Argentina at Kings Park in Durban.

The coastal city, along with Port Elizabeth and Pretoria will host South Africa’s home games in the competition who, soon after their opener, head off to Mendoza for the return leg against the Pumas, with Brisbane and Wellington next on the itinerary.

Just as was the case last year, Rassie Erasmus’ men will round off the competition with a return home, where they will take on Australia at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, before facing off against defending champions, New Zealand at altitude at Loftus Versfeld.

When does the 2018 Rugby Championship start?
The competition starts on Saturday 18 August, with the trans-Tasman derby between Wallabies and the All Blacks

The 2018 Commonwealth Games: All South Africa’s medal winners

South Africa is pottering along steadily at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, but has a long way to go to repeat its most successful medal haul.

This article will be updated when medals are won…last updated: 12 April, 13:00 SAST.

South Africa is currently fourth on the Commonwealth Games medals table with a total of 32 medals (overall positioning will be updated when it is available…).

Prior to departure for the competition, Sascoc was coy about a specific “medals target” for the Games, however, President Gideon Sam said the team would be targeting a fifth place overall.

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Since readmission, South Africa has sent teams to six Commonwealth Games starting with the 1994 Games in Victoria, British Colombia. During this period they have fini

Cricket News: Morkel joins Surrey on a two-year Kolpak deal

After calling time on his international career, the 33-year old has penned a two-year deal with the English county side.

South Africa great Morne Morkel has joined Surrey on a two-year contract ahead of the new English county season, the club announced Tuesday.

The towering fast bowler retired from international cricket this month after helping South Africa seal their first home Test series victory over Australia since their apartheid-enforced exclusion.

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Morkel, 33, took 309 wickets in 86 Tests at an average of 27.66 and was a member of the South Africa side that topped the International Cricket Council’s Test rankings in 2012.

He will now be available to play for Surrey, whose headquarters are at The Oval in south London, in all forms of the game

Sakeman van Suid-Afrika glo in Dubai in arres oor Gupta-video

Justin van Pletzen, die sakeman wat verlede week ’n video van Ajay Gupta in Dubai geneem het, is glo in Dubai in hegtenis geneem.

Volgens News24 hou dit glo verband daarmee dat hy sonder die nodige toestemming ’n video-opname gemaak het. Kyk die video hier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8wTDW17Agc

Ndivhuwo Mabaya, woordvoerder van die departement van internasionale verhoudinge en samewerking, sê die afdelding vir konsulêre dienste het bevestig dat die Suid-Afrikaanse sakeman se ma kontak gemaak en aangevoer het dat haar seun in hegtenis geneem is.
“Die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Dubai is nie van die inhegtenisneming bewus nie en is versoek om dit met die plaaslike owerhede te bevestig. Ons wag vir ’n verslag van die ambassade.”

’n Vriend van Van Pletzen het aan News24 bevestig dat die familie op die besonderhede van sy hofverskyning wag.

In die video vra Van Pletzen aan Gupta wanneer hy na Suid-Afrika sal terugkeer.

“Die

Cricket News: Dale Steyn set to join English county Hampshire

The Proteas ace will join the county in June as he looks to return to full fitness after a series of injuries.

Veteran Proteas fast bowler, Dale Steyn will join English county side, Hampshire for the 2018 domestic season.

The 34-year old has been on the sidelines for three months after suffering a heel injury during the opening Test of the home series against India at Newlands in January.

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He will join up with the county in June, a month before South Africa is set to tour Sri Lanka for two Test matches, five One Day Internationals and one T20 international.

Steyn will also fill in for Proteas teammate, Hashim Amla, who joins the county for the first three months of the season.

Hampshire Director of Cricket, Giles White, says he hopes the stint at t

Springbok News: Erasmus will be allowed to break 30-Test rule for overseas players

Rassie Erasmus is getting a slightly easier ride than Allister Coetzee and will be allowed to pick players for the Springboks who are based overseas and do not meet the 30-Test rule.

Must be nice to be Rassie Erasmus. While strict rules were in place for his predecessor when it came to picking overseas players, Erasmus will be allowed to do so.

According to a report in this weekend’s City Press, he has been given approval to “pick any player who might qualify for the Bok team, provided he gives valid reasons for that player’s selection”.

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While the 30-Test rule still applies, SA Rugby will even make exceptions for that “under certain circumstances”.

The rule was implemented last season to try and stop players leaving the country, but clear

Cricket News: Aiden Markram breaks into top 10 in the latest ICC Test Rankings

The 23-year old joins two other Proteas at the top of the batting rankings, while Kagiso Rabada remains the best bowler in Test cricket.

Proteas opening batsman, Aiden Markram has had a fairytale start to his international career and it has been further underlined by him surging up the ICC Test Rankings into the top 10 in the batting category.

The 23-year old made his highest score in Test cricket during the first innings of the fourth and final Test against Australia at The Wanderers, when he piled on the misery on the troubled visitors, eventually getting out for 152, his second triple figure score of the series.

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He finished as the leading run scorer with 480 runs at an average of 60, to climb up to ninth spot in the rankings, one spot below opening p

South Africans abroad: How to register and vote in the 2019 elections

Did you know that South Africans can vote abroad in the 2019 elections? Lekker right? There are hundreds of thousands of us South Africans living abroad and our country needs every vote to ensure that our Democracy is maintained.

South Africa has a proportional representation system. That basically means that the more votes a party gets, the more seats they will get in Parliament. The more diverse the representation in Parliament, the healthier our Democracy will be.

More importantly, voting is your opportunity to have your say as to who governs South Africa and it reminds them that they are ultimately accountable to the people of South Africa.

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That is why the VOTE HOME campaign, a non-partisan digital campaign, launched this month with the aim to rea

Groep Britse toeriste by Ermelo,Mpumalanga beroof

’n Groep van sowat tien Britse toeriste is Donderdagaand naby Warburton, ’n dorpie naby Ermelo in Mpumalanga, beroof.

“Dit was so 20:00 toe twee voertuie wat lede van ’n internasionale rolprentmaatskappy vervoer het, langs die hoofweg stilgehou het om hulself te verlig,” sê Athol Stark, die hoofsameroeper van Hoëveld-toerisme in Mpumalanga.

Volgens Stark het ’n voertuig agter hulle stilgehou en die ligte van die motor volsterkte aangeskakel sodat die slagoffers nie die aanvallers kon sien nie.

Vier mans het uit dié motor gespring.

“Hulle het die bestuurder van die een voertuig só hard geslaan dat hy sy bewussyn verloor het. Hulle het toe sy beursie, kontant en sy skootrekenaar gevat.”

Daar was twee jonger kinders wat erg getraumatiseer is deur die voorval.

Die rowers het die voertuigsleutels van albei die voertuie gevat en begin om die ander toeriste te dreig.

“Hulle het alles geroof wat die toeriste by hulle gehad he