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🥊CAN’T WAIT!! 💥🇿🇦 Dricus Du Plessis vs Usman
21/06/2026

🥊CAN’T WAIT!! 💥
🇿🇦 Dricus Du Plessis vs Usman

🇿🇦 WELL DONE BOKKE!!!
20/06/2026

🇿🇦 WELL DONE BOKKE!!!

Lekka Boys! Zimbabwe Rugby Union 🇿🇦🏉
20/06/2026

Lekka Boys! Zimbabwe Rugby Union 🇿🇦🏉

🇿🇦 AIMEE SHATTERS TWO SOUTH AFRICAN RECORDS IN INDIANAPOLIS 🇺🇸Aimee Canny touched the wall in Indianapolis on Wednesday ...
20/06/2026

🇿🇦 AIMEE SHATTERS TWO SOUTH AFRICAN RECORDS IN INDIANAPOLIS 🇺🇸

Aimee Canny touched the wall in Indianapolis on Wednesday morning and looked up at a time she already knew by heart. 1:56.59.

Her own African record in the 200m freestyle, broken for the third time, the second time in two months alone.

It barely registered as news anymore. What she did with it that evening did.

Hours later, with that brand new record still hers to defend in the final, Canny scratched the race....

🎙️ FULL STORY: https://justplainsport.com/swimming/aimee-canny-south-african-record/

👕 SORRY BULLE 😢
19/06/2026

👕 SORRY BULLE 😢

💪🇿🇦 GO BOKKE!!!🏉Here’s your first team photo of the year! 💚💛 🔥
19/06/2026

💪🇿🇦 GO BOKKE!!!🏉

Here’s your first team photo of the year! 💚💛 🔥

🇿🇦🥇KUSCHE REWROTE COMRADES HISTORY AND ANNOUNCED HIMSELF TO THE WORLD 🏆George Kusche crossed the line outside Hollywoodb...
19/06/2026

🇿🇦🥇KUSCHE REWROTE COMRADES HISTORY AND ANNOUNCED HIMSELF TO THE WORLD 🏆

George Kusche crossed the line outside Hollywoodbets Scottsville Racecourse in Pietermaritzburg with his arms doing more talking than his legs had any right to after 85.77 kilometres.

The clock read 5:15:56. Nobody in the history of the Comrades Marathon had ever run the Up Run faster.

He didn’t just win. He demolished an 18-year-old record. Leonid Shvetsov’s mark of 5:24:49, set back in 2008, had stood as one of the great untouchable numbers in South African ultra running.

George Kusche took almost nine minutes off it. The top five finishers all broke the old record, which tells you everything about the calibre of field he beat to do it…

🎙️ FULL STORY: https://justplainsport.com/athletics/george-kusche-comrades-2026/

🇿🇦 WE REMEMBER DR LOUIS LUYT: THE BUILDER BEHIND THE SPRINGBOKS' GREATEST DAY 🕊️On 24 June 1995, Nelson Mandela walked o...
18/06/2026

🇿🇦 WE REMEMBER DR LOUIS LUYT: THE BUILDER BEHIND THE SPRINGBOKS' GREATEST DAY 🕊️

On 24 June 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto the Ellis Park pitch in a green and gold Springbok jersey and cap. Sixty-five thousand South Africans roared. François Pienaar lifted the Webb Ellis Trophy. The country stopped. For one afternoon, everything that had divided South Africa for decades did not matter.

What most people never stopped to ask was: who made that day possible?

His name was Louis Luyt. Born on 18 June 1932 in Britstown in the Karoo. A self-made man from nothing who became the most powerful administrator in South African rugby history.

He saved Ellis Park from bankruptcy, brought the Rugby World Cup to South Africa, and negotiated the television deal that paid for professional rugby across three nations. Without him, 24 June 1995 does not happen the way it did.

🎙️ FULL STORY: https://justplainsport.com/legends-and-heroes/louis-luyt-rugby-legend/

🇿🇦 LAURA WOLVAARDT - ONE HUNDRED CAPS! 🏏There is a version of Laura Wolvaardt that exists only on a cricket field. That ...
18/06/2026

🇿🇦 LAURA WOLVAARDT - ONE HUNDRED CAPS! 🏏

There is a version of Laura Wolvaardt that exists only on a cricket field. That is the only version the public has ever been given access to, and she has never once suggested that should change.

One hundred T20Is into a career that began when she was sixteen years old, Wolvaardt arrives at the Pakistan match at Edgbaston having offered the world exactly what she signed up to provide: runs, leadership, and absolutely nothing else.

In an era where athletes are brands, where personal lives are content and relationships are announcements, that is quietly remarkable. She has kept her private life completely her own. Not through controversy, not through careful management, but through a simple, unspoken commitment to being a cricketer first, last, and entirely.

🎙️ FULL STORY: https://justplainsport.com/cricket/laura-wolvaardt-100th-t20i/

🇿🇦 - FINAL TEAMS 🇮🇪Who are you backing?
18/06/2026

🇿🇦 - FINAL TEAMS 🇮🇪
Who are you backing?

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