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{{Use South African English, date=July 2023 This is a list of events in South African sport in 1999.


Football (Rugby Union)

* 19 June - South Africa (Springboks) beats
Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
101-0


Football (Soccer)

* 10 April - South Africa's national
soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
team,
Bafana Bafana The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international soccer and it is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for Soccer in South Africa. The team's nickname is Bafana Bafana (The Boys/G ...
loses 1 - 0 against
Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...
at the Odi stadium in an
African Nations Cup The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...
qualifier game * 5 June - Bafana Bafana beats
Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...
2-0 in a home game * 27 November - Bafana Bafana beats
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
1-0 in the
Nelson Mandela Challenge The Nelson Mandela Challenge is an annual soccer match between South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastli ...
held in Loftus Versfeld Stadium,
Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...


See also

*
1998 in South African sport {{Use South African English, date=July 2023 Cricket * 19 March - Makhaya Ntini becomes the first black person to represent South Africa in a five-day test cricket match Football (Rugby Union) * 13 June - The South Africa (Springboks) beat Irel ...
* 1999 in South Africa * 2000 in South African sport *
List of years in South African sport This is a ''timeline of sport in South Africa''. For other events see the list of years in South Africa. Pre Union of South Africa * Sport in pre-union South Africa Union of South Africa *1910s: 1910 - 1911 - 1912 - 1913 - 1914 - 1915 - 191 ...