NEW YORK, United States of America, October 20, 2025/ -- The brand collaboration between Africell, Africa's only U.S.-owned mobile network operator, and NBA Africa in Angola has taken a leap forward with the widening of its scope to include all four of Africell's African operating markets with the addition of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) (www.BAL.NBA.com) and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a leading pan-African multilateral financial institution dedicated to financing and promoting intra- and extra-African trade, on Saturday announced an expansion of their multi-year collaboration to launch a series of initiatives to empower young basketball professionals in Africa by improving their capabilities in finance and supporting the continent's creative industries.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) (www.NBA.com) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) today announced the top 60 high-school-age boys and girls from 21 countries across Africa who will participate in the 21st Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Africa camp, which will be held at Petit Stade and BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda, from Saturday, August 23 – Tuesday, August 26, marking the first time that the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program will be held in East Africa after previous editions in Angola, Egypt, Senegal and South Africa.
Made By Ball (MBB) players joined NBA Africa in a Jr. NBA clinic impacting hundreds of participants from across the continent. The participants are in Parktown, Johannesburg for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund Conference take took place from 04 to 07 April 2025.
Inathi Masinga Photo Credits: SuperSport Schools Plus
The Maritzburg College student has received a full Basketball scholarship to the Southeastern Preparatory Academy in Orlando, Florida. He won MVP at the Jenny Orchard Invitational Basketball Tournament where College took down Northwood in the final.
In September he represented the South African U18 Men's team at the FIBA Afrobasket Tournament in Pretoria and ended his season winning MVP for the Maritzburg College 1st V Basketball team.
National Club Chanpionships 2024
As RSA woke up to vote and decide the leaders for the next 5 years, Basketball South Africa has revived the National Club Championships for 2024. This event pits clubs from district level competing and proceeding to provincial and then national club championship. The criteria used for clubs to qualified is based on definition of a club in the BSA constitution. As pers the constitution a club defined by having a constitution, bank account in its name, executive committee, a senior men and Senior women’s team and a junior program participating in the local dist…
History of Sthembiso
My name is Sthembiso Nkosi and I was born in Paulpietersburg, Kwazulu Natal and I'm living with disability.
I started playing sports in 2013 at Bumbisizwe special school and i was 9 years old .I started playing wheelchair tennis and there was no coach at school but we were training very hard so that we can win the tournaments,it wasn't easy but we really push. In 2017 the principal introduced Gopolang more the coach of wheelchair tennis and we were so happy to have the coach and i started to improve on wheelchair tennis and coach Gopolang was coaching every sport at sc…
In a season where the battle for the championship was more off the court than within the lines, Jozi Nuggets ladies did the business on the court during the Finals. The sombre atmosphere when the final buzzer went off showed that no one wanted or expected the GoldNBlue to win the championship. Regular season and playoff games are vastly different and it all boils down to scouting and preparation for the game that really matters. The Jozi Nuggets ladies got to the playoffs with one loss against Celtic’s Finest and when the guns were drawn during the finals the opposite happened. The struggl…
