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Team Nigeria at the ongoing African Track Continental Cycling Championship in South Africa have won two silver and two bronze medals as at Friday morning.

Former Leeds striker Phil Masinga has died at the age of 49.

Lobi Stars Football Club of Makurdi on Friday beat visiting Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa 2-1 in their Group A Match Day 1 fixture in the 2018/2019 CAF Champions Cup League.

The Nigerian Union in South Africa on Thursday said it had written to a South African National Civic Organisation to retract hate speech made against a Nigerian in that country.

The Nigerian community in South Africa says it has protested the misrepresentation made against their country by an official of a South African organisation on air.

Lobi Stars face a tough battle against former champions Wydad Casablanca, ASEC Mimosas and Mamelodi Sundowns in Group A of the 2019 CAF Champions League.

South African jazz artist Musa Manzini strummed his guitar while surgeons removed tumour from his brain, according to a video of the multi-instrumentalist and university lecturer.

No, it’s not because Christmas, the season of love, peace and goodwill to all men is drawing close, but because the new man at the helm of affairs at the Consulate, His Excellency, Godwin Adama, the Consular General, has brought a new lease…

At 0605 GMT, the rand traded at 14.3325 versus the dollar, 0.4 per cent stronger than its previous close.

Former Australia captain Steve Smith said on Friday he had not been involved in planning to tamper with the ball during the Cape Town test against South Africa.

South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for Zimbabwe’s former first lady, Grace Mugabe, over an alleged assault in an upmarket district of Johannesburg last year, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

Chidokweanaukwu, a native of Nando in Anambra State, drowned in a beach in Swellendam, near Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.

Egypt and South Africa have submitted bids to replace Cameroon as host of next year's African Cup of Nations, pitting north versus south in the rush to find a new venue for Africa's top soccer tournament.

Nigeria's Flying Eagles have been drawn against host Niger, South Africa and Burundi in Group A ahead of the 2019 Under 20 AFCON.

Embattled Former South African President, Jacob Zuma, is not entitled to state funding when defending his criminal prosecution and must start footing his own legal bills, said North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.

South Africa are ready to bail out the Confederation of African Football as hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, according to SAFA President Danny Jordaan.

Addressing newsmen in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Adama said before now, the scammers were charging applicants between 400 US dollar (N144,00) and 1,000 dollars (N360,000) without any assurance of getting their passports.

The Chairman of SWAN, Lagos State, Debo Oshundun, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Monday, congratulated the female national team for their doggedness at the 2018 AWCON.

Okeke told the News Agency of Nigeria on the telephone from Johannesburg, South Africa, that there was the need for the team’s handlers to reorganise the team.

Days after the Confederation of African Football announced that it has stripped former hosts Cameroon of the rights to stage Africa’s biggest competition next year, South Africa has confirmed the country could step in and spare the blushes…