
No scannable ticket, no entry: sold-out Soweto derby fans without tickets face arrest at FNB Stadium
Saturday's Soweto derby is sold out, with 90,000 expected. Fans without a scannable ticket face arrest under FNB Stadium's tightened access plan.
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Saturday's Soweto derby is sold out, with 90,000 expected. Fans without a scannable ticket face arrest under FNB Stadium's tightened access plan.

The SA obstacle course racing world champion took 47 minutes and 37 seconds to cross 600 monkey bars slung beneath the Bloukrans Bridge arch on Monday.

A French autopsy found the Lions lock died of a tear in the aorta from natural causes, the club said on Wednesday, as his family waits to bring him home.

Pieter Coetzé won the 50m backstroke in Astana on Saturday to take the overall short-course World Cup title and nearly R2.7m in prize money.

The Lions lost 31-14 at La Rochelle on Saturday, a day after lock Hyron Andrews died at the team hotel. A stadium honoured his number five jersey.

Ignition TV’s first Heat On The Street event put spinning battles and Carlo Gibson’s upcycled Engen Xtreme Kouture on the same Brakpan pitch.
Herschelle Gibbs has joined Ernie Els's South Africa team for the Icons Cup at Fancourt, where stars from multiple sporting codes will face Team World from 11–13 December.

Kaizer Chiefs joins Orlando Pirates in season two of SuperSport's Giants, widening the docuseries into a two-club portrait of Soweto football culture.

Video submissions are open for the 2026 Red Bull King of the Air qualifier, with Cape Town’s Kite Beach set for a 21 November to 6 December weather window.

Red Bull and South African Tourism’s What We Know premieres 24 September 2026 on SABC1 and SABC+, framing local sport as place, people and culture — not only results.

Double Olympic champion Tatjana Smith announced her competitive return in Pietermaritzburg on 22 September 2026, targeting the 50m breaststroke and Los Angeles 2028.