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Bronze, silver or gold: South African female sporting heroes have long carried the pride of the country on their shoulders and in their hearts. But...

South Africa’s women football team, Banyana Banyana made history in Ghana last week when they qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. After a...

Portia Modise should be celebrated. She was the first African footballer to score more than 100 goals in international competition. She has announced her retirement from playing to take up coaching after a career in which she was the country's top goal scorer, male and female.

The nation's sporting royalty came out to celebrate excellence at the Sport Ministry's annual SA Sports Awards, with Banyana Banyana striker Portia Modise claiming the crown as Sports Star of the Year. She is the first African football player to score 100 goals in international competition.

Banyana Banyana overpowered Botswana 4-0 at a packed Isak Steyl Stadium at the Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijil Park on Saturday as they began their preparations for the 2014 African Women's Championships.

Banyana Banyana overpowered Botswana 4-0 at a packed Isak Steyl Stadium at the Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijil Park on Saturday as they began their preparations for the 2014 African Women's Championships.

South Africa's women's football team, Banyana Banyana, qualified for the finals of the 2014 African Women's Championship after a 13-0 drubbing of the Comoros in a first-leg qualifier prompted the tiny island nation to withdraw from qualifying.

South Africa's women's football team, Banyana Banyana, departed the 2012 London Olympic Games on a high as they held Japan, the reigning world champions, to a goalless draw in their final match at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Tuesday.

A second half wonder-goal from Portia Modise wasn't enough to stop South Africa's women's football team, Banyana Banyana, going down 4-1 to fourth-ranked Sweden in their opening match of the 2012 Olympic Games on Wednesday.

The first group of athletes who will be representing South Africa at the London Olympics next month was announced by South Africa's Olympic governing body Sascoc on Wednesday 6 June in Johannesburg.
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