The Ngorongoro Black Rhinos, the national rugby team, outshone the football Taifa Stars for the NsC's Best National Team Award of 2024. That sentence probably needs repeating. In a nation where ...

In one of the year's biggest upsets, unheralded Alvin Camique beat world-ranked Ibrahim Mafia in Tanzania this weekend. The bantamweight battle took place in the Viwanja vya Posta arena in Dar es ...

The South African city of Durban is to host the inaugural African Boxing Cup named after Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected President of South Africa and internationally revered for his ...

The IBA's inaugural Mandela African Boxing Cup set to take place in Durban, South Africa, has officially been postponed until early 2024. More than 235 boxers representing 34 nations were registered ...

Nigerian boxer Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, 40, died after collapsing during a fight Friday. Olanrewaju (13-8-1, 12 KOs) was facing Jon Mbanugu (13-1-1, 12 KOs) in an eight-round light heavyweight ...

Africa is a continent which has provided the world with elite sporting athletes and moments which have stood the test of time. The likes of Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure have put Africa on ...

AIBA is set to launch the 2017 AIBA Year of Africa in South Africa ©AIBA The programme includes the HeadsUp Truck, AIBA’s new GlovesUp gateway into boxing and 4,835 certified course places which are ...

Former Commonwealth Games flyweight medallist Christine Ongare was among African boxers who received byes in the first round matches in fixtures released by Africa Boxing Confederation (ABC) for ...

Former Nigerian lightweight champion Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju died after becoming defenseless during a Saturday night boxing match in Ghana. The 31-year-old fighter reportedly “dominated” his ...

Boxing South Africa chief operations officer Mandla Ntlanganiso remains bullish about the sport’s upward trajectory in the ...

His real name was James Cozley, an African-American boxer who made Bangalore his home. He had an illustrious career as ...

JOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO ...