🇿🇦🔥 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN NETBALL WOMEN ON BACK-TO-BACK VICTORIES AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES 🎉 👏🏻 They won in a record score against Tonga of 96-42 and 65-44 against Malawi so far in the tournament. #CommonwealthGames #SouthAfrica #Glasgow2026

🇿🇦 MAPIMPI – THE BOY WITH NO FAMILY PHOTO WHO WON A WORLD CUP 🎉 There are wingers who chase a reputation someone else built for them. And then there are those who build the entire thing themselves, with nobody standing behind them to hand it down. Makazole Mapimpi belongs firmly in the second category. Born on 26 July 1990, in Tsholomnqa, Eastern Cape, he turns 36 today. Happy 36th Birthday, Makazole. From all of us at Just Plain Sport — the boy with no family photo built one anyway, and it starts with his own name on it. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #MakazoleMapimpi #Springboks #RugbyWorldCup #JustPlainSport

🥇 COETZÉ WINS 50M BACKSTROKE GOLD IN 24.18 🏊🇿🇦 Pieter Coetzé does not do things by half measures. On Saturday night at Tollcross, the 22-year-old lowered his own Commonwealth Games record for the third time in as many swims this week, touching in 24.18 to claim gold in the men's 50m backstroke. Four years after leaving Birmingham with silver in this event, he made sure this time his hand hit the wall first. ⸻ 🗣️ "Three Games records in three swims and he still had more in the tank. Congrats on your 50m Gold, Pieter!" – 🎙️Jay ⸻ 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #PieterCoetze #CommonwealthGames2026 #TeamSA #Glasgow2026 #JustPlainSport

🥇 CHAD LE CLOS BREAKS COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDAL RECORD 🏊🇿🇦 Chad le Clos stands alone. Nineteen medals, five Games, sixteen years — and on Friday night in Glasgow, the kid from Durban became the most decorated male athlete in Commonwealth Games history with a bronze medal that meant more to him than most of his golds. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #ChadLeClos #CommonwealthGames2026 #TeamSA #SASwimming #JustPlainSport

🦈 NONU: ALL BLACKS LEGEND JOINS SHARKS AS MENTOR 🏉🇿🇦 Ma'a Nonu is walking into a Durban changeroom as a Shark. The Sharks confirmed on Saturday that the 44-year-old, two-time World Cup winner has signed a short-term deal, arriving in a mentorship and leadership capacity rather than as a like-for-like squad addition. It's a move built around what he can pass on, not what he can still produce on matchday. “You don’t get a legend like Ma’a Nonu walking into your changeroom without something rubbing off on every young player in that squad!” – 🎙️Jay 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #MaaNonu #Sharks #AllBlacks #SouthAfricanRugby #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦 COETZÉ SHATTERS OWN GAMES RECORD TWICE IN A DAY 🏊 Pieter Coetzé didn’t wait for Saturday to prove he’s the fastest 50m backstroker in Glasgow. He proved it twice on Friday, in the same event, against his own name on the record board both times. The Pretoria swimmer opened his day with a Commonwealth Games record in the morning heats, touching in 24.45 to top the field at Tollcross. By the time the evening semis rolled around, that mark was already under threat, and the threat was him. Coetzé tore into the second semi-final and stopped the clock at 24.29, shaving another sixteen hundredths off the record he’d set that same morning. Nobody else in the field got within half a second of him. It’s now the second-fastest swim of his career, behind only the African record of 24.17 he set at last year’s World Championships in Singapore. That swim locks in the top seed for Saturday’s final, and with it, a shot at turning his 2022 Commonwealth Games silver into gold. ⸻ 🗣️ “Two Games records in one day, in the same event, against himself. That’s not form, that’s a statement!” – 🎙️Jay ⸻ He won’t be alone in South African colours on Saturday night. Ruard van Renen won the first semi in a lifetime-best 24.56, shaving two tenths off his morning swim, and joins Coetzé in the final as they both chase a medal. The rest of Team SA’s session sets up a big Saturday at Tollcross. Erin Gallagher, Caitlin de Lange and Jessica Thompson swept the top three spots across their 50m butterfly semis to book all three South African spots in that final. In the 100m breaststroke, Michael Houlie and Chris Smith both progressed through to Saturday’s decider, with Houlie ripping through the opening 50m in a new African record along the way. Glasgow’s second night in the pool is shaping up to be one of Team SA’s biggest of the Games. #CommonwealthGames2026 #TeamSA #Coetze #Swimming #JustPlainSport 🎙️

🥇NATHAN HENDRICKS WINS GOLD IN GLASGOW 🏊🇿🇦 Lane five, Tollcross International Swimming Centre, Friday night session. The blocks go quiet. Nathan Hendricks finds his mark and waits for a horn he has spent years training to hear at exactly this pitch. It sounds, and he is gone before the ripples settle, carving into the water with the same stroke that carried him through a Paralympic debut two years ago. 🎙 Full Story on JustPlainSport .com #CommonwealthGames #swimming #teamsa #JustPlainSport

🌟 FAF DE KLERK SHINES AS CHEETAHS BEAT SHARKS 43-21 🏉🇿🇦 Faf de Klerk needed only his second game back on South African soil to remind Bloemfontein exactly what the Cheetahs signed up for. The Springbok scrumhalf scored twice and was named Man of the Match as the Toyota Cheetahs beat the Hollywoodbets Sharks XV 43-21 in Currie Cup Round Two at Toyota Stadium. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #ToyotaCheetahs #JustPlainSport #CurrieCup #Rugby #CHEvSHA #FafDeKlerk