If there’s one TuksSport statistic that doesn’t make for great reading, it’s the number of female athletes who have competed in the finals of a World Athletics Championship. Since 2003, only Caster Semenya (800m), Wenda Nel (400m hurdles) and Surita Febbraio (400m hurdles) have managed to do so. Semenya was the champion in 2009 and…
University Sport South Africa (USSA) has announced its final team for the 2025 FISU World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. The squad, unveiled at a movie-themed event in Pretoria, is poised to be one of South Africa’s most competitive delegations to date. The FISU World University Games, scheduled from July 16-27, 2025, will host over…
Two South African athletics records fell on Saturday, one at home on the road and another abroad on the track. In Zagreb, Croatia 19-year-old Bayanda Walaza won the men’s 100m race at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting. He stopped the clock at 9.94 seconds, breaking his own national U20 record…
It is often said that all good things must end, which did for Danillo von Ludwiger, but only after he fulfilled his last goal as a Tuks volleyball player. Over the weekend, the USSA Beach Volleyball men’s final was an “All Striped Affair” as the Tuks A and B-sides battled it out on the sand….
Exeter Chiefs have bolstered their front row with the acquisition of South African prop and Tuks Ruby captain Ethan Burger. The 24-year-old, who previously played for the Blue Bulls’ under-20 side, was spotted by Exeter’s coaches while playing university rugby for University of Pretoria side Tuks. Burger joins the English Premiership club as the fourth…
The name Arno Kruger might mean little to South African sports fans, but a year or two from now, they will take note of his swimming heroics. To use a sports cliche, he is a work in progress in the freestyle events. During the recent South African Short Course Championships in Durban, the swimmer won…
SA20 and Cricket South Africa (CSA) announce the launch of Schools SA20, designed to discover and nurture cricket talent among both girls and boys across South Africa. This exciting national competition will run from September 2024 to March 2025, with schools from all 16 Provinces competing for the coveted title of Schools SA20 champions. Over…
Njabulo Mbatha capped a brilliant season over the weekend when he helped South Africa’s 4x400m relay team win a silver medal at the Under-20 World Championships in Peru. What made the 17-year-old TuksSport High School’s performance special is the fact that two hours before the relay final, he competed in the 400m-hurdles final. He missed…
Proud and happy are the words Dewey Swartbooi used to describe his feelings as his first season as coach of the Tuks’s rugby team came to completion. He is justified to feel this way. With his appointment, Swartbooi was tasked to get Tuks to play Varsity Cup Rugby again. The mission was accomplished when Tuks…
Young seamer Tristan Luus led an excellent all-round bowling display to help South Africa Emerging make a strong start in the first unofficial Test against Zimbabwe Emerging at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo that started on Thursday. The 19-year-old, who was making his first-class debut, claimed four for 34 in 16 overs as the hosts…
