September 14, 2010 in News
Basketball South Africa held a successful Annual General meeting on the 11th- 12thSeptember 2010 in Johannesburg. The meeting was an important platform for us to review the progress made by the federation since the new Board was elected in October 2008. Read the rest of this entry →
May 20, 2010 in News
Prepared by Zoran Radovic (FIBA development director) in Geneva, 27”’ April 2010
Meetings held on various occasions:
February 28, 2009 in GBL
With the new Gauteng Basketball season scheduled to start this weekend of the 8th of March 2009, a lot of talk is doing the rounds on the basketball island; so definitely I’m keeping both eyes and ears on the streets for all you basketball junkies. Mybasketball caught up with some of the ballers who will be featured in the premier section and what was said was very interesting to say the least…
There will be a lot of changes in some of the teams especially since some of the dipper dandies are hitting the big time and playing for the Varsities; specifically in the ladies section; making both the league and USSA interesting. Legendary teams like Tuks (The University of Pretoria) losing the USSA M.V.P Requelh Molema to The Vaal University of Technology will cause a little upset to the team, but we all know Tuks will find a way to pick themselves up regardless. They also lost Poopsie to UJ (The University of Johannesburg) a few years back and despite that the team was crowned the 2008 USSA champions; so who knows what this loss will do for the team.
January 7, 2009 in News
Like a true fanatic I went to see some of the games at the looking forward to enjoying watching the best young talent in Southern Africa, and because the Africa powerhouse Angola was there I would dare to say the best young talent in Africa. With my hopes very high I looked forward with unreserved hope to watch the SA team giving Angola at the very least a run for their money.
So I skipped work and headed to Potchefstroom just an hour and half away from Johannesburg, with my heart beating faster than you can say double-crossover. The drive to Potch was very enjoyable as it reminded me of my annual sojourn to Cape Town, only this year it was earlier and there was no traffic to contend with. With my stereo serenading me with Alicia Keys, Lira and Thandiswa Mazwai my mood became even more optimistic with the promise of Love and Peace these ladies preach. Read the rest of this entry →
December 4, 2008 in Other
The runners up of the LOP (League of Professionals) and Professional Basketball League team the Egoli Magic did South Africa proud on a recent tour of Angola this past week.
The team was not the original Egoli Magic team their fans have come to love after losing Joseph Mazibuko who left the team to persue other interests. The team added 6’9 center Cedrick (Not sure about his surname) who played college ball in the US and who sounds like an American too. Cedrick cracked the Mandeville backboard last week after throwing down a very strong dunk on a clearly weak structure. They also added Neo Mothiba, the South African National Team captain who currently plays for the Pretoria Heat and Quintin Denyssen who plays for Wits Alumni in the LOP.
Egoli Magic haven’t played in over a month with the exception of a few scrimmages they organised prior to leaving for Angola last week. Their schedule was tough nonetheless. On Friday Egoli lost to Primeiro De Agosto 96-71. Not a bad result considering that this is the nucleus of the Angolan national team.
On Saturday the lost to Inter 72-65. This is a game that Egoli would have hoped to lose by only single digits or at least walk away with a W.
