For every goal Banyana Banyana score, Stayfree will donate 1,000 packs of sanitary pads to nominated schools, football academies and community organisations supporting women and girls.

For 56 years, one of African football's most valuable brands ran without a dedicated chief executive over its business. That changed this season, and the change matters more than the name attached to it.

The 17-year-old becomes On's second South African track signing in under three months, extending a strategy built on backing athletes before the market prices them.

All three figures trace back to FIFA. None of them is wrong. But only one of them is prize money, and the confusion says a great deal about how the governing body's record $871 million distribution has been reported.

The partnership ties one of the world's most recognisable sports optics brands to a rugby programme with global reach, while extending Oakley's footprint in South African sport.

The National Sports Commission (NSC) framed the tie-up as a milestone in its drive to reposition Nigerian sport and put globally recognised brands back on the country's athletes.

Africa's largest health-and-wellness operator is being prepared for public markets - and the runway runs through Johannesburg.

Emenalo, the Nigerian-born former technical director at Chelsea and Monaco, was one of the highest-profile executive appointments in the SPL.

The grant will be delivered through existing National Olympic Committee (NOC) structures. Every Olympian. Not just medal winners.

The venue sits in Lira City in the north, and Uganda is framing it as capacity-building for regional and international events alongside youth athletics and community participation.

Can a league that has struggled for years to sell its broadcast rights and pay modest wages suddenly underwrite the most expensive reward structure in its history?

The partnership extension with the Fidelity Services Group for another two years, continues a commercial relationship that dates back to 2022.

Rwanda is extending a sports-marketing strategy that until now has run entirely through team and league sponsorships.

Five projects, five markets, one continent-wide commitment to youth and community development - a deliberate footprint rather than a single activation.

The NFL will stage its 2026 NFL Flag Africa Continental Championship in Kenya from July 9 –11, the league's third edition on the continent and its clearest signal yet that Africa sits at the center of a global expansion strategy built around flag football's 2028 Olympic debut.

It's a clean fit on paper: a digital-first bank chasing a young, mobile, football-watching audience, paired with a club that has built its brand around modern, intentional community-building.

DStv Stream, MultiChoice's streaming app, will now ship pre-installed on Samsung's Smart TV range across 18 new African markets, including: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.

The South African outgoing CEO of the National Rugby League, will take charge of Australian tennis in August 2026, emerging from a global search that drew more than 150 candidates and was run by executive search firm Egon Zehnder.

The concept sits alongside Nigeria's reported $500m push, backed by the NSC and Opus Race Promotions, to land a Formula 1 Grand Prix.

A deal that hands the Chinese tech brand a direct line into one of the continent's most-watched sports broadcasting operations -