1955 — Trevor Goddard and Hugh Tayfield take five wickets each to bowl out England for 256 in the fourth Test at Leeds as SA win by 224 runs and level the five-match series at 2-2. Opening batsman Jackie McGlew scored 133 and Russell Endean 116 as the visitors took control in the second innings, scoring 500.
1958 — France tour SA for the first time, holding the Springboks to a 3-3 draw at Newlands in the opening Test. Bok eighthman Butch Lochner scored the only try of the match, which was unconverted, and scrumhalf Pierre Danos landed a drop.
1960 — Weather wipes out the first two days as SA and England play to a draw in the fourth Test in Manchester, with the home side leading the five-match series 3-0. England tried to make a contest of it, declaring their second innings on 153/7 for a lead of 185. SA were 46/0 at stumps.
2003 — Captain Graeme Smith, resuming on 178, goes on to score a SA record of 277 as the Proteas score a mammoth first-innings total of 594/5 declared in the first Test against England at Birmingham. Herschelle Gibbs had made 179 from 236 balls on the opening day. But with one day lost to bad weather, and England replying with 408, the match ended in a draw.
2005 — Ryk Neethling wins world championship bronze in the 200m freestyle in Montreal. For Neethling, who had focused on longer distances from 1,500m freestyle down to 400m until switching to the 100m after the 2000 Olympics, this was his best result in the 200m.
2013 — Lonwabo Tsotsobe takes 4/22 as the Proteas beat Sri Lanka by 56 runs in the third ODI in Kandy to stay alive in the five-match series, reducing the deficit to 1-2. David Miller scored an unbeaten 85 off 72 balls to push SA to 223/7 before the hosts were bowled out for 167.
2019 — Tatjana Schoenmaker becomes the first SA woman to win a medal at a world long-course (50m pool) championship when she takes silver in the 200m breaststroke in Gwangju, South Korea. Schoenmaker, who clocked a 2 min 21.79 sec African record in the semifinals the previous evening, went 2:22.52 in the final, more than two seconds behind Russian winner Yuliya Efimova. Schoenmaker’s Tuks teammate Kaylene Corbett was eighth.
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