Perhaps more interesting than the appointment of a new Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, was the news that members of the Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) voted in favour of removing KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA) from the board of the world’s most beloved ultra marathon.  Before Saturday’s AGM which took place at Carter High School in Pietermaritzburg, the CMA featured two ex officio  members, representing Athletics South Africa (ASA) and KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA). B

Race director Danny Blumberg – marking a decade at the helm of the People's Race – confirmed the landmark move on Wednesday, describing it as a necessary step to keep Soweto's streets moving on a bustling month-end weekend. Blumberg explained that staging the race on a Saturday, combined with the usual end-of-month traffic surge, meant organisers of the 2025 Africanbank Soweto Marathon had to rethink how to manage the flow of runners through the township. "We've spent a lot o

Maxed Elite top Runner Jobo Khatoane believes that this year's Africanbank Soweto Marathon will be the hardest to predict after the race was rescheduled to take place on 29 November instead of it’s traditional first Sunday in November. The date change as a result of the G20 which also took place at the Nasrec Expo Centre in November and the uncertainty created by a faction claiming ownership of the event which insisted that the race would not take place, made it difficult for

"My coach is happy," said Bennet Seloyi when asked about Best Ngwenya's feelings on his breakthrough 2025 season. "At the beginning of the year he told me this was my year to perform at a higher level and count myself amongst South Africa’s top runners." This time last year, the 25-year-old was running for an elite development club Waterfall AC with a marathon best of 2:17:11 and hadn’t broken even broken 30 minutes in a 10km road race. Twelve months later, the Thembisan is