🇿🇦 RASSIE NAMES RETURNING STARS FOR ARGENTINA SHOWDOWN 🏉🇿🇦 Rassie Erasmus wants one thing understood before a ball is even kicked in Buenos Aires: the Springboks Argentina Test is not a formality on the way to bigger things. It is the thing. Speaking to media on Tuesday as his squad settled into camp in Johannesburg, the Bok coach was blunt about where his head is at this week, and it isn't on New Zealand. ⸻ 🗣️ "Ten Boks walking back into camp in one week isn't a problem, it's a luxury most coaches would kill for. Rassie just has to be ruthless about who's actually Test-ready!" – Jay ⸻ 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #Springboks #RassieErasmus #RSAvARG #JustPlainSport

🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHAN GOOSEN 🇿🇦 There are rugby players who spend a career chasing one defining moment. And then there are those handed the moment early, who walk away from it, and spend a decade finding their way back. Johan Goosen belongs firmly in the second category. Born on 27 July 1992, in Burgersdorp, he turns 34 today. Happy Birthday, Johan. From all of us at Just Plain Sport — South African rugby spent a decade trying to hold onto you, and it never quite worked out the way anyone planned. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JohanGoosen #VodacomBulls #Springboks #Birthday #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦 BROTHER AND SISTER GOALKEEPERS NAMED FOR WORLD CUP 🏑 Two goalkeepers. One surname. One World Cup. Morgan and Cullin de Jager have been named in South Africa's squads for the 2026 FIH Hockey World Cup — brother and sister, both guarding the last line for their country on the same stage this August. From school hockey together to national colours together. Congrats, Morgan and Cullin! 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #SAHockey #Hockey #FIHWorldCup2026 #JustPlainSport

🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JONTY RHODES 🇿🇦 Ask any cricket fan over forty to name the greatest piece of fielding they have ever seen, and most will describe the same six seconds: a South African going horizontal through the air, ball in one outstretched hand, a Pakistani batsman turning back a fraction too late. They will get the score wrong. They will forget who was bowling. They will never forget the shape of that dive. It belongs to Jonty Rhodes, born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 July 1969, who turns 57 today. 🎂🏏 Happy birthday, Jonty. From all of us at Just Plain Sport — for every kid still practising that dive on a back lawn somewhere, you started something that still hasn’t stopped. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JontyRhodes #Proteas #Cricket #Birthday #JustPlainSport

🥇 COETZÉ STRIKES SECOND GLASGOW GOLD IN 24 HOURS 🏊🇿🇦 Pieter Coetzé has done it again. Less than 24 hours after breaking the Commonwealth Games record to win 50m backstroke gold, the 22 year old backed it up with another Games record and another title, this time over 200m, at Tollcross on Sunday night. ⸻ 🗣️ "Pieter didn't come to Glasgow to mess around. He came for the gold!" – Jay ⸻ 🎙 FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #PieterCoetze #CommonwealthGames2026 #southafrica #Swimming #JustPlainSport 🎙️

🥈 AIMEE CANNY STORMS TO 100M BREASTSTROKE SILVER 🏊🇿🇦 Aimee Canny hit the wall first off the turn in Glasgow, and for 75 metres of the women's 100m breaststroke final, it looked like South Africa had another champion. Angharad Evans had other ideas. Racing out of lane five at Tollcross International Swimming Centre on Sunday night, Canny went out hard, splitting 30.67 at the 50m mark to lead the field into the second length. It was the kind of front-half swim that puts a home crowd on edge. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #AimeeCanny #Swimming #CommonwealthGames #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦🔥 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