Two young girls, both friends, aged 12 and 15 drowned after they were swept out to sea by strong rapids in Park Rynie in KwaZulu-Natal. .

Drowning is one of the biggest causes of unnatural death in the world. However, very few South Africans can swim, says the NSRI.

Swimming gold at the Olympics and the Lions winning in Super Rugby, I guess you could say 29 July is a golden day.

A team of 20 swimmers will lead South Africa’s medal charge as they head to Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games which begin on Thursday.

The sport of rugby league has joined swimming by banning transgender players from international competition.

Lia Thomas says she hopes to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Here are five things you need to know about the 22-year-old swimmer.

SA’s golden girl Tatjana Schoenmaker has been awarded the Forbes Africa Sports Award for her notable success in swimming.

Chad le Clos has won a silver medal adding to the bronze he won on Thursday at the World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi.

The DA’s Deputy Shadow Minister for Sports, Arts and Culture, Veronica van Dyk called out SSA for its ‘trend of dodging accountability.

Tatjana Schoenmaker wants to ‘bless others’ just like she was blessed through crowdfunding after she came home with two Olympic medals.

Matthew Sates won his second consecutive title in the 200m Individual medley at the FINA Swimming World Cup, while Pieter Coetze also bagged gold on Friday 22 October.

Matt Sates finished with 10 individual gold medals while Rebecca Meder claimed her sixth on the final day of the SA Short Course Championships on Sunday.

Lewis Pugh endured water temperatures between 0 and 3 Celsius and became the first person to undertake a multi-day swim in the polar regions.

With warmer days around the corner, it comes as good news to hear that Johannesburg’s public swimming pools will be reopening on 1 October.

Tatjana Schoenmaker’s efforts in the pool at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have finally been rewarded – and handsomely at that!

Physical activity such as swimming can boost children’s vocabulary growth, according to new research.

SA swimmer Tatjane Schoenmaker smashed a seven-year-old record on her way to winning the country’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

This really looks like SA’s best chance of gold at the Tokyo Olympics – and Tatjana Schoenmaker is hoping to make history in the pool on Friday 30 July.

Team SA were represented across six different codes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Thursday. Here’s how they fared.

A breakdown of all Team SA’s representatives in action on Day 5 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday, 28 July.

A breakdown of all Team SA’s representatives in action at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Monday, 26 July.

After a tough opening day at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, Team SA are looking to bounce back on day two – but it’s not going well!

A TikTok video of a Cape Town scuba diver and a seal ‘nibbling’ his head, has been watched more than six million times.

Kaylee McKeown threw down the Olympic gauntlet to American rival Regan Smith by smashing her 100m backstroke world record Sunday.

Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel aim to cement their Tokyo Olympic Games berths as the pressure-packed US Olympic swimming trials get underway on Sunday.