Blast from the past: Brazil edge Bafana in Soccer City thriller

1993 — SA’s soccer players, thumped 1-4 by Zimbabwe in their away leg, hold their neighbours to a 1-1 draw in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Marks Maponyane scored in sixth minute to give the hosts a lead they held until Benjamin Nkonjera equalised in the 80th minute.

1994 — Phil Masinga strikes in the 75th minute to give South Africa’s soccer team its first win over Zimbabwe. The friendly in Mmabatho was the third meeting between the two teams.

1996 — African champions Bafana Bafana are beaten 2-3 by world champions Brazil in a friendly at Soccer City in Johannesburg. Phil Masinga and Doctor Khumalo scored to give SA a 2-0 lead at halftime. But the South Americans hit back with three goals, Bebeto slotting the winner in the 85th minute.

2004 — Corrie Sanders takes on Vitali Klitschko at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles for the WBC heavyweight crown vacated by Lennox Lewis. Sanders puts on a brave show, but he is outgunned before the fight is stopped in the eighth round, with the South African still on his feet. But Sanders wasn’t the same fighter who had demolished the younger Klitschko brother, Wladimir, for the WBO version of the world title a year earlier. Sanders’s training for the Vitali bout had been hampered by a hand injury caused when he punched through a glass window during an argument with his girlfriend at the time.

2005 — Andre Nel takes 10 wickets as the Proteas claim an away series victory over the West Indies in Bridgetown. Nel trapped middle order stars Brian Lara and Shivnarine Chanderpaul leg before wicket on his way to finishing the second innings of the third Test on  6/32 for overall figures of 10/88. The win, by an innings and 86 runs, gave SA an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series. 

2016 — Brad Binder claims the first Moto3 victory of his career, taking the chequered flag at the Spanish motorcycle grand prix at the Jerez circuit to the south of Seville.