1996 — Anton Gilmore fails in his bid to capture the WBU’s vacant junior-featherweight title, losing on points to American Max Gomez in Bushkill, US.
2002 — Fransie Botha takes on Wladimir Klitschko for the WBO heavyweight title in Stuttgart, but is stopped in the eighth round by the Ukraine giant.
2006 — South Africa’s Olympic champion 4x100m freestyle relay team downs hometown heroes Australia to win gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. The team featured three of the four who stunned the world at the 2004 Olympics in Athens — Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns and Ryk Neethling. Gerhard Zandberg was the only new face, coming in for Darian Townsend. Schoeman led SA off and put them into a lead they never relinquished, winning in a 3 min 14.97 sec Games record, with the Australians more than half-a-second behind. That time, however, was slower than their 3:13.17 world record from two years before.
2019 — The Proteas complete a series whitewash over Sri Lanka as they win the final fifth ODI by 41 runs on Duckworth-Lewis at Newlands. After bowling the visitors out for 225, SA were on track for victory at 135/2, with 22 overs still remaining, when the lights went out and stayed out, forcing a premature ending. SA were well ahead of the required run rate, with Aiden Markram not out on 67.
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