#TuksSport: Tuks sports teams bag five titles at the 2023 USSA Championships

Posted on December 13, 2023

UP-Tuks athletes ensured they ended 2023 with a bang by winning five USSA Championships titles in December. One of the feel-good stories is undoubtedly the performance of the TuksFootball Women. Since the 2021 Women’s Varsity Football final, UWC consistently got their best result against...

#TuksBasketball: "Being the captain does not stop for me once we leave the court," says Linette Ngulube

Posted on December 11, 2023

Early this month, TuksBasketball Women won the USSA Basketball 3x3 Championships, beating UJ 18-15 in the final played at Rhodes University. In 2021, Tuks played in the USSA 5x5 final. It was the first time in 11 years they did so. They did not win. VUT won 65-49, but the die was cast. The Tuks...

#TuksSport: The TuksWaterpolo women’s team is going for gold

Posted on December 08, 2023

Third-time lucky is what the TuksWaterpolo women’s team will be hoping for when they dive in to play Maties' second stringers at the 2023 USSA Water polo Championships in Gqeberha. Tuks lost to Maties in the final in the previous two USSA tournament editions. The captain of Tuks, Maxine...

#TuksFootball: Nhlanhla Mabaso hopes to get kids to dream again by playing sport

Posted on December 06, 2023

Making a difference through sport is the one thing Nhlanhla Mabaso is passionate about. But it is a case of first things first. From next week in Cape Town, he will play for Tuks at the 2023 USSA Football Championships edition. Mabaso makes no secret that he and his teammates are out to prove a...

#TuksSport: TuksCricket still unbeaten at the 2023 USSA Cricket Championships in Cape Town

Posted on December 05, 2023

The TuksCricket team made sure they were off to a good start, beating Wits by 59 runs and Maties by six wickets at the 2023 USSA Cricket Championships. Today in Durbanville, Cape Town, Maties batted first. From the third over, things started going wrong for Maties. Matthew Boast got the wicket of...

#TuksCricket: "Test cricket is, to me, the game's purest form. It allows batters and bowlers to duel it out," says GJ Maree

Posted on November 27, 2023

Statistics are a big part of cricket. There is bound to be a statistic about who is the fastest, quickest, most runs scored, and most wickets taken, to name a few. It is part of what makes cricket exciting. One statistic catches the eye when going through the recent 2023 IXU InterVarsity T20...

#TuksSport: Kgahliso Mamphoke is the TuksWomensRugby 7s Player of the Year 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023

If there is one thing Kgahliso Shakira Mamphoke loves doing, it is sidestep and dummy with a rugby ball in hand, and she is pretty good at it. During the 2023 World University Invitational Tournament in September in France, Mamphoke was the top try scorer for the Air France TuksWomensRugby team....

#TuksRugby: “Every team in the Varsity Shield competition is going to come for us,” says Dewey Swartbooi

Posted on November 20, 2023

‘Winning rugby’ is Dewey Swartbooi's honest answer when asked what kind of rugby he wants UP-Tuks to play next year in the Varsity Shield competition. The former Blue Bulls player is the newly appointed TuksRugby head coach. Swartbooi admits that saying he wants the team to win is a...