The Total CAF Women’s Champions League will be staged later in 2021 and the COSAFA competition will serve as a qualifier for that with the winner advancing to the continental finals.

The 15-year old Northern Cape high school pupil was Africa’s only representative in the women’s street skateboarding event.

In a statement on their website, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) stated that ‘Operation Gold Awards’, a program that provides monetary rewards to athletes who earn medals, for Paralympic athletes would be increased by as much as 400%.

The table tennis player, Funke Oshonaike, was Nigeria's flag-bearer at the 2016 Games in Rio and is the first African woman to qualify for seven Games, beating out Mozambican runner Maria Mutola for the record.

Marta made her Olympics debut at the Athens Games in 2004 and she has since scored in the Beijing, London, Rio and now at Tokyo Games in the opening match.

The U23 Olympic team has been boosted with a duo from Kaizer Chiefs, Reeve Frosler and Nkosingiphile Ngcobo.

Tanya Seymour's horse, Ramoneur, has been diagnosed with laminitis - a common, extremely painful and frequently recurrent condition in horses, ponies and donkeys, which condition affects the tissues bonding the hoof wall to pedal bone in the hoof.

Softball was introduced at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic then removed from the programme for the 2012 and 2016 Games but was added, along with baseball, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The apology comes after the Manyonga was handed a four-year ban in June for failing to make himself available for drug testing three times in a 12-month period under the sport's 'whereabouts' criteria. He will miss the Olympic Games which start on Friday.

Bafana Bafana assistant coach Morena Ramoreboli, who was standing in for Helman Mkhalele, praised the players for fighting through the pain in the Cosafa Cup final against Senegal.

The MEC also cautioned residents from throwing bottles in the veld as they can magnify the sun’s rays and start fires.

Sunday's effort came after Kgothatso 'KG' Montjane and her partner Lucy Shuker battled on Saturday in the women’s doubles wheelchair final where they lost in straight sets. | @deejaymanaleng

The Limpopo-born athlete was the first African wheelchair tennis player to compete at Wimbledon when she was handed a wild card for the Wimbledon Grand Slam tournament in London in 2018.

Jacob Zuma was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment after the apex court found him guilty of contempt following repeated failed attempts to get him to return to testify at the commission of inquiry into state capture.

Gavin Hunt had led Amakhosi to the CAF Champions League semi-final but the team still gave him the boot and replaced him with former coach Stuart Baxter.

The quadriplegic recently took part in part the 2021 Para-cycling World Championships in Cascais Portugal, which was South Africa's last opportunity to increase the number of athletes qualifying for the Games.

The proposed changes came after Britain's Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that Northern Ireland's abortion laws, which at the time were almost identical to Gibraltar's, were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

Coach Desiree Ellis, a former Banyana Banyana player, selected a team that is a mixture of rising stars and experienced players.