1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (910+ words) Tatjana Smith, South Africa’s most decorated Olympian with two golds and two silvers, has been embroiled in a legal dispute with Swimming SA over outstanding interest earned on her prize money at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Japan. Image: Michael…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (762+ words) Current world and triple Commonwealth Games champion Pieter Coetzé is among South Africa's strongest contenedsr for gold at the LA Olympics in 2028. South Africa’s premier Olympic gold-mine has completely ring-fenced its high-performance programme, operating as an autonomous “island” entirely insulated…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (366+ words) Children remain most at risk as South Africa marks World Drowning Prevention Day Drowning rarely looks like it does in the movies; it is almost entirely silent, without frantic splashing, waving, or cries for help. A person slipping under fights…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (604+ words) That is the staggering number of lives lost to drowning each year in South Africa, according to the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), Swimming South Africa, and eThekwini Municipality. In a bid to mark World Drowning Prevention Day on Saturday,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (516+ words) Amber-Rose Berry makes history with English Channel swim Cape Town, Eighteen-year-old Amber-Rose Berry from Pringle Bay, near Cape Town, has made history after becoming the youngest South African woman to swim the English Channel. Berry completed the gruelling 33km open-water crossing…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (382+ words) Cape Town swimmer Michael Houlie claimed silver at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, California, but believes he should have won gold - a mindset that is fuelling his bid for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Houlie, who was ranked second…...