The Basketball National League’s Appreciation Campaign is aimed at acknowledging the League’s stakeholders such as players, coaches, officials, strategic partners and fans for their contribution to the success of the league over the years. It is appropriate that on our nation´s Youth Day, the apex basketball body which is heading into its 8th season in 2020,...

It is a known practice that the BNL season commences in the second half of the year. While we have planned to tip-off on 21 August, which is ordinarily the period around which the League commences, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the League's decision to safeguard the health and well being of fans, players, everyone connected to our game and the general public will impact on this date...

Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the 32nd President of the United States of America, lived through the Great Depression and the 2nd World War. During her life, she made many observations about humanity and one that remains as true today as it was then: “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”...

When I received the call to assist my Province with the task of taking up the Administrator’s position of a basketball Franchise, for the Northern Cape, it did not dawn on me that I would still be stuck in the position seven years later. Little did I realise that one of the fastest growing codes of sport (Basketball) could so easily become part of your DNA...

It was in moments when I encountered Dr Richard Lapchick during his work in the ranks of revolutionaries who fought against apartheid and racism in South Africa where I got a better understanding of his contribution at the theoretical level as well as the realm of popular struggles against racism in sport. Those who have been battling racial segregation within the post-apartheid South African Sports Unification movement have witnessed Dr Richard Lapchick at first hand,...

Prior to BNL, players in the North West only participated in the Inter Provincial Tournaments where the focus was on players who were competing at the competitive leagues in big cities, most of the young athletes did not have hope of playing against the best in the country.

The objective of every coach is to get his team to play to their full potential. Upon seeing the talent on the roster of the 2018 Soweto Panthers, I saw one word... Championship! Coaches are optimistic by nature, but my analysis of the squad I was tasked to make "winners" wasn't wishful thinking. We had ALL the "basketball pieces" necessary for a title.

My journey in sport and basketball has been an interesting if an unconventional one. I learned to love the game not necessarily on the court, but for what happens off the court and behind-the-scenes.

I met basketball through my U13 provincial Netball coach. She suggested that I was more suited to basketball than netball, that was when I fell in love with this crazy game and I never looked back. It wasn’t long after, that I started officiating, not knowing the amazing journey it would lead me on.

I am an athlete and an avid lover of anything sports. I began track athletics and excelled at it from as early as grade 1 all through to my Matric year, achieving all that I hoped to in my school years. The urge to try something different crept up on me in my first year of varsity where my love and appreciation for basketball began.

On Saturday 29 August 2020, BNL management led by its Chief Operations Officer and General Manager had a stakeholder meeting with the BNL club administrators. The purpose of the meeting was to check on the state of wellbeing of the clubs. Of vital importance were updates provided by the BNL administration on their preparations for the 2020 season in view of the current challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.