August 9, 2024

Miss South African contestant with Nigerian ties pulls out amid nationality row

Chidimma Adetshina’s announcement that she would not take part in Saturday’s final came a day after the Home Affairs ministry accused her mother of fraud and identity theft. “After much careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to withdraw myself from the competition for the safety and wellbeing of my family and I,” Adetshina, […]

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False Glory: Showmax series investigates shocking sports stories

The Comrades Marathon, a 90-kilometre race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest and oldest ultramarathon in the world.  In 1999, on Youth Day, as Nelson Mandela stepped down and Thabo Mbeki was named President, relatively unknown 21-year-old Sergio Motsoeneng came ninth – because he’d swapped during

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