Blast from the past: Jobodwana smashes long-standing 200m record

1997 — Phillip Holiday makes the sixth defence of his IBF lightweight title, beating American Pete Taliaferro on a split decision at the Carousel Casino, north of Pretoria. Holiday put the challenger down in the first round, but was dropped heavily in the second. Only his superb conditioning got the South African up and back into the fight. 

1998 — Vuyani Bungu makes the 11th defence of his IBF junior-featherweight title, edging Ernesto Grey of Colombia by split decision at the Carousel. 

2001 — The West Indies beat a lacklustre SA by six wickets in the final ODI at Kingstown, St Vincent but the visitors still win the series 5-2. It was the second Proteas tour there, and their first series victory. SA would beat the West Indies in their next 11 contests in the Caribbean, and would lose there again only in 2016.

2010 — Katlego Mphela scores twice in the space of three minutes as Bafana Bafana wallop Thailand 4-0 in a World Cup warm-up match at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Siphiwe Tshabalala and Bernard Parker scored the other two goals. The margin of victory equalled the team’s biggest winning gap, against Chad in 2007. It would later emerge, however, that this was the first of five Bafana matches leading up to the World Cup that was influenced by convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal. 

2015 — Anaso Jobodwana breaks Morne Nagel’s long-standing 200m South African record when he clocks 20.06 at the Cayman Invitational in George Town. Nagel’s 20.11 had stood untouched for 13 years, but in 2015 it was surpassed four times, three times by Jobodwana and once by Wayde van Niekerk.