1969 — Wing Syd Nomis scores two tries as the Springboks beat Australia 30-11 in the first Test at Ellis Park. Flanks Jan Ellis and Piet Greyling and centre Mannetjies Roux also dotted down.
1997 — Phillip Holiday loses his IBF lightweight title and unbeaten record to rising star Sugar Shane Mosley at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. American Mosley, the winner on points, went on to make eight successful defences of the belt, winning all of them inside the distance, before moving up to welterweight where he beat boxing’s “Golden Boy”, Oscar de la Hoya. In Italy, Patrick Quka won the marginal WBU’s vacant bantamweight title when he knocked out Gianmaria Petriccioli.
1997 — The Springboks are beaten 32-20 by Australia in a Tri-Nations match in Brisbane.
2000 — Spin bowler Nicky Boje sparks a collapse as the Proteas beat Sri Lanka by seven runs on the fourth day of the second Test in Kandy to level the three-match series at 1-1. Until then SA had been on the back foot, even after an unbeaten 118 from Lance Klusener in the first innings. Chasing 177 for victory, Russel Arnold (40) and Arjuna Ranatunga (88) had steered the home side from 21/4 to 130/4 when Boje struck. Sri Lanka lost their last six wickets for 39 runs. Boje finished with 3/24, while Klusener and Nantie Hayward took two wickets apiece.
2003 — Flyhalf Louis Koen slots three penalties as the Springboks are dumped 9-29 by Australia in a Tri-Nations contest in Brisbane.
2008 — Captain Graeme Smith scores an unbeaten 154 to guide the Proteas to a five-wicket victory over England in the third Test at Birmingham for an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series. Chasing 281 for victory, Smith and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher (45 not out) steered SA home through potentially troubled waters.
2009 — Gerhard Zandberg wins SA’s third medal of the swimming world championships, taking bronze in the men’s 50m backstroke to add to the gold and bronze won by Cameron van der Burgh.
2012 — Sizwe Ndlovu becomes SA’s second black Olympic champion as he and his three rowing teammates win gold in the lightweight men’s four at the London Games. They unleashed a powerful finale over the second half of the 2,000m course to snatch victory in a tight race where the first three crews were separated by less than half a second. Ndlovu, the stroke, John Smith, Matthew Brittain and James Thompson clocked 6 min 02.84 sec to edge Britain (6:03.09) and defending champions Denmark (6:03.16). World champions Australia were fourth in 6:04.05. That performance earned the South Africans crew of the year at the annual World Rowing awards.
2013 — JP Duminy scores 51 off 52 balls as the Proteas beat Sri Lanka by 12 runs in the first T20 in Colombo.
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