Amadou Gallo fall joins the NBA as vice president of development in africa
NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2010 – Amadou Gallo Fall is joining the NBA on January 25 to serve as Vice President of Development for the NBA in Africa it was announced today by Heidi Ueberroth, President, NBA International.
Fall will be responsible for leading [...]

The senior men’s team recently took part in the African Championship in Libya. Despite this being an opportunity for South Africa to go out there and create relationships with other African nations and see how we could learn from them, our national body Basketball South Africa (BSA) missed that opportunity with various blunders along the [...]

We have the likes of “Slamdunk” on the national broadcaster SABC, then we have “Basketball Africa” on DSTV and finally there is www.mybasketball.co.za for our general news on basketball in South Africa and to some extent the continent. With these being our eyes around the country for information, why not look at the value they [...]

ROAD TO Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given of the following important meetings:
Constitutional Summit and Plenary
Date : 14 March 2009
Venue : Wembley Indoor Sports Complex Board Room
Time 09h00
Agenda
1. Constitutional Reviewing and adoption as working Document
2. By Laws
3. Finance Policy
Annual General Meeting
Date : 22 March 2009
Venue : Wembley Stadium Board Room
Time : 09h00
Agenda
1. Opening and Welcome
2. [...]

This BSA board will be in office for the next four years. The Board was democratically elected in the Presence of the National Olympic and Sports Confederation of South Africa (SASCOC) and our national Government representatives.
The electors were all the nine Provincial Chairpersons and the Six Affiliated members of Basketball South Africa General Assembly.
The contact [...]

On a warm Saturday morning, Pretoria Boys High School played their 2nd game of the term against arch rivals St Benedicts High School at home. With this being off season and most schools focusing on next year’s preparations, the coaches were bound to experiment. With the matrics busy preparing for their [...]

Photo credit: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images
I wrote this piece on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.  The USA re-established their dominance as world leaders in basketball as both women and men’s teams won the ultimate athletic achievement, Olympic gold.  Asides from Mali’s butter fingered opposition to Lisa Leslie’s team USA in the women’s preliminaries, one [...]

The last day of the 2008 Masters tournament in the City of Tshwane turned out to be an emotionally filled affair. It began with a game for 3rd and 4th place in the 30 to 39 years old division between “White Eagles” and “LOP All Stars”. As if to set the tone for the rest [...]

Article supplied by Molupe Thelejane
The generic requirement to fix SA basketball is to improve and align the political, administrative and technical facets of the game at all levels – club, district, province & national.
All sport is governed by three fundamental aspects – the political, administrative and technical aspects. By political I refer to the policy [...]

The Ekhuruleni Basketball Association (”EBA”) has asked us to publish the attached letter that they sent to the Gauteng Basketball Association (”GBA”) regarding how the Kasi Tour was managed and run.
By publishing this letter to the public, the EBA wishes to demonstrate how proper grievance procedures can and should be followed, and also hope to [...]