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Sale Sharks (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images) Solidarity has hit out at minister of sport Nathi Mthethwa for criticising South African rugby players refusing to kneel for the Black Lives Matter movement.The trade union says the minister's behaviour infringes on the players' freedom of speech, belief and religion. DA member of parliament Zakhele Mbele has…

Sbusiso Mseleku (City Press/Twitter) Well-known South African sports journalist S'busiso Mseleku has died.The news was confirmed by family friend, Duma Ndlovu, on Facebook on Tuesday. Mseleku, who was a former Sport24 columnist, died at the Midvaal Private Hospital in Vereeniging after having tested positive for the coronavirus. He was 59. Over the course of his career Mseleku worked for the Sowetan,…

SuperSport commentator Owen Nkumane. (Gallo Images) This weekend's Solidarity Cup will be South Africa's first local live sporting event since lockdown and will set in motion a brave new era of broadcasting.The Covid-19 pandemic has already forced SuperSport to diversify its product offerings in the absence of action, but industry experts state live sport still…

Dr. Teresa Frankovich, Humboldt County’s public health officer, took numerous questions from local reporters on various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic today — reopening, masking, bad kinds of hand sanitizers and more — and the county has released her answers to those questions in the video above.Below: A rough summary of questions asked and answers…

Of South Africa's three major sporting codes - soccer, rugby and cricket - it is only the latter that can return to play under Level 3 regulations of the country's national lockdown. There are no winners when it comes to the impacts of the coronavirus, but it is safe to say that cricket has been given a unique opportunity during…