News @ High Performance Centre

15 May 2019

Tuks bodybuilder a step closer to competing at the Mr Olympia

Tuks's Muzi Maluleke achieved a goal he set himself ten years ago when he won his category during the recent Amateur ...

17 April 2019

Tuks’s gentle ‘muscle man’ wants to teach youngsters about discipline and hard work

One of Muzi Maluleke's biggest drives in life is to prove to youngsters that talent alone does not necessarily always ...

08 April 2019

#TuksAthletics: Tuks athlete redeems himself with 8.10m in the long jump

Jovan van Vuuren (Tuks) can genuinely claim to have gone from “zero to hero” on Friday when he won the long jump ...

06 March 2019

#TuksSportHighSchool: Safa Academy at Tuks helped with women’s football revival

The Banyana Banyana captain, Janine van Wyk, and Africa’s foremost female football player for 2018, Thembi Kgatlana, ...

14 February 2019

#TuksAthletics: UP Vice-Chancellor encourages students to adopt active lifestyle

Sport and living an active lifestyle are two things that Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the ...

24 January 2019

#TuksAthletics: Bosman is not allowing age to slow her Comrades dream down

Bosman and Parry decided to team up again this year with the aim of getting her to give a good account of herself ...

09 January 2019

#TuksJudo: UP-Tuks judokas just keep on winning gold medals

A new year with new challenges but the results seem to remain the same. The UP-Tuks judokas are still winning more ...

13 November 2018

#TuksGolf: Nash de Klerk claimed the Bridge Fund Managers Junior Series title

Nash de Klerk, TuksGolf Acadamy athlete, claimed the Bridge Fund Managers Junior Series title at the Wanderers Golf ...

05 November 2018

TEG Continental-team is going to shift the boundaries of SA Cycling

TEG is shifting the boundaries of South African cycling from next year with the announcement that they are going to ...

01 November 2018

#TuksAthletics: Semenya and Van Zyl are TuksAthletics Centenary heroes

100 years of excellence was capped last night with the announcement that Caster Semenya and LJ van Zyl are the Tuks ...

31 October 2018

Top coach is going to assist cyclists at the TuksSport High School

TuksSport High School has formed a collaboration with Hein Badenhorst to form a cycling development high school ...

25 October 2018

TuksAthletics turns 100: UP-Tuks female sprinters celebrate a century of excellence

Few local female track athletes can claim to have truly challenged the stopwatch, but these UP-Tuks athletes can: ...

09 October 2018

#TuksJudo: TuksSport High School judoka wins gold in Russia

If there is one thing, Donné Breytenbach (TuksSport High School) truly hates it is to lose a judo fight. For her, it ...

02 October 2018

Invitation to a conference on 'Eligibility to participate in women's sport'

Sport and Recreation South Africa, in collaboration with the Department of Private Law and the Centre for Sports Law in ...

27 September 2018

#TuksWheelchairRugby: Disabled athletes will be challenged to the limit at Sun City

Being disabled does not mean you should limit yourself to what you think you are capable of. That is what the ...

26 September 2018

All Venter wants is the opportunity to test herself against the best

All geared up and nearly nowhere to play has been Mariska Venter’s biggest frustrations so far this year. It led to ...

26 September 2018

Shange wins IAAF Around Taihu 20km race walk

Lebogang Shange (Nike/HPC) pulled off perhaps one of the best wins of his race walking career on Monday when he won the ...

20 September 2018

#TuksJudo: Snyman to fight one of the best at the Judo World Championships

When Unelle Snyman steps onto the mat on Saturday during the Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan she knows she ...

19 September 2018

Lebogang Shange motivated to get a good result in China

It might just be third time lucky for the Lebogang Shange when he competes from Sunday in the ‘Around Taihu’ ...

18 September 2018

#TuksGolf aims to be the one-stop for anyone who is passionate about golf

One of the biggest concerns in South African sport is the way talented youngsters just fade away without ever ...