The 2024 Sea Harvest SA Interclub Championships Presented by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture(DSAC)   Regional Interclub Championships Western Cape/ Eastern Cape / Kwazulu Natal Interclub Overview Western Cape Interclub will take place on 23-24 November...

Robin De Kock (left) with another surfing legend, Graham Hynes The current General Manager of Surfing South Africa, Robin de Kock, announced his retirement recently. In a career spanning 50 years of involvement with the sport and 40 years of running it in South...

Mens finalists © Zane De Lange Victoria Bay: In an exciting finish to the 59th SA Surfing Championships, Anastasia Venter is the new Women's Champion, and defending Men's Champion Tom Lindhorst retains his title. Buffalo City wins the coveted President's Cup, and...

News Release 30 June 2024 Sea Harvest KZN Surfing Outreach Initiative Tag Team Event © Luke Patterson  Willards Beach, Ballito, KZN - On the opening days of the Ballito Open Presented by Flojos QS1,000 contest, we witnessed a fun contest-within-a-contest,...

2024 Rip Curl Gromsearch, Dairy Beach Stop #4 of the 2024 Rip Curl Gromsearch Series Dairy Beach, Durban 12 July - 14 July 2024 Entries are CLOSED     The 2024 Rip Curl Gromsearch Series is made up of five events. The top four results out of five in the u16...

Surfing South Africa announces the South African Surfing Team for the International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in El Salvador in 2023.   The South African Surfing Team, which will compete in the 2023 International Surfing Association World Surfing...

Cape Town Surfriders retain the Presidents Cup at 56th SA Championships in Victoria Bay.  Luke Thompson and Sarah Scott crowned South African Men's and Women's Champions. The Cape Town Surfriders team won the Presidents Cup for the second year in a row at...

Buffalo City Wins the Freedom Cup, eThekweni wins the Sea Harvest Loud and Proud Trophy.    Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay produced perfect waves for the competitors in the 25th edition of the Sea Harvest SA Junior Championships presented by SMTH Shapes and...

Sea Harvest Grommet Games history for Eden Surfriders and Buffalo City Surfriders and Jordy Smith joins the Groms at Dairy Beach Eden Surfriders made history at Surfers Corner in Muizenberg at the weekend when they won the Sea Harvest Team Trophy for the first time at...

The final step in the journey to the Olympic Games in Japan has begun for Bianca Buitendag and Greg Emslie. They have arrived at OR Tambo airport where they will join fellow members of Team South Africa as they prepare for the experience of a lifetime. Bianca...

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) confirms the names of surfers and coaches who will represent South Africa at the Olympic Games in Japan. SASCOC has confirmed that Jordan (Jordy) Smith (33) of Durban and Bianca Buitendag (28) of...

The 2021 TyreLife Solutions South African Para Surfing Championships took place at New Pier in Durban on June 29th and 30th and 46 competitors from four provinces made their way to Durban’s Golden Mile to participate in the annual event. This was almost double the...

The continued COVID-19 pandemic is entering its Third Wave in South Africa. This concern brings with it further restrictions and limitations, which affect large gatherings such as sporting and lifestyle events. After discussions and consultation with the KwaDukuza...

Surfing South Africa, the official governing body for surfriding in South Africa, has renewed its long-term partnership with Accelerate Sport on a 4-year contract. The renewed agreement is a testament to the collaborative partnership the two organisations have had in...

Tuesday November 26th: Four time World and multiple South African Champion, Gigs Celliers won the premier Open Division at the 2019 South African Kneeboard Championships which was completed in Mossel Bay on Sunday. Celliers (54) made a slow start to the event in...

Tuesday November 26th: Tyra Buncombe of the Western Cape was crowned the 2019 ISA Woman’s World Long Distance Prone Paddleboard Champion yesterday, after winning the 18km race in brutally hot conditions at Playa El Tunco, El Salvador. In a day of high drama, numerous...

South Africa’s junior surfers made a good start to their campaign on Day One of the 2019 Visla ISA World Junior Championships which got under way in small onshore surf at Huntington Beach in California yesterday. All eight South Africans who competed on Day One...

Saturday September 28th – The 2019 Sea Harvest SA Junior Surfing Championships supported by Sport and Recreation and powered by TCS – WiFi will be concluded at Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay tomorrow (Sunday). After four long days and 104 heats have been completed there...

Miyazaki, Japan, September 15, 2019 – The Mercedes-Benz Buffalo City South African surfing team finished fifth overall and earned two medals and one surfer qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the ISA World Surfing Games presented by Vans which ended at Myazaki in...

The Board of Directors of Surfing South Africa has confirmed the names of the surfers who have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2019 ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championships. Although the venue and dates of the event have not been confirmed by the...

Sunday August 25th, Nahoon Reef, East London – Jeffreys Bay local Joshe Faulkner became the 54th South African Open Men’s Champion and local girl Zoe Steyn repeated her 2018 victory to win the Open Women’s Division Championship in 4 – 5 foot Nahoon Reef surf at the...

After three days of competition at Nahoon Reef and one day at Nahoon Corner at the 2019 Mercedes-Benz SA Championships hosted by Buffalo City, thirty six surfers have qualified for the nine finals that will be run tomorrow (Sunday August 25th). A new Champion will be...

Contestants in the 2019 Mercedes–Benz South African Surfing Championships hosted by Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality were greeted by perfect 6 foot surf at Nahoon Reef on Day Three of this premier Surfing South Africa tournament. Organisers decided to make the...

Testing conditions at Nahoon Reef on Day Two of the 2019 Mercedes–Benz South African Surfing Championships hosted by Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality have forced organisers to move the event to an alternate venue at nearby Nahoon Corner. Twenty two heats will be...

After gathering at an enthusiastic Opening Function on Tuesday August 20th surfers in the 2019 Mercedes–Benz South African Surfing Championships hosted by Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality got down to business on Day One of the event at Nahoon Reef today...

In exactly a week from today surfers and officials from all corners of South Africa will gather in East London early to compete in the 2019 Mercedes–Benz South African Surfing Championships hosted by Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. The 54th edition of this...

  Surfing South Africa announces the Mercedes-Benz Buffalo City South African Surfing Team for the 2019 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Japan. The Mercedes-Benz Buffalo City South African Surfing Team, which will compete in the 2019...

Victoria Bay in the Eden District will get the 2019 South African Surf Tour underway with the 3A Rated Sea Harvest Vic Bay Gromcomp which takes place at this popular right hand point break this weekend. This is the third edition of the event which has moved...

The North Swell Surf Club made history in the Sea Harvest Interclub Surfing Championships, which was completed at Muizenberg Pavilion on Saturday (February 23rd), when they became the first surf club from KZN to win the title. The annual contest got off...

Sunday February 3rd: Although the team of Brad Scott, James Ribbink Luke Thompson, Ceara Knight and Tayla de Coning took honours in the Tag Team event at the Junior International between the SA Junior Squad and a group of visiting French Junior surfers at Dairy Beach...

  Each year Surfing South Africa applies a strict system based on the results of SA Surf Tour, WSL and SA Junior Championships results to select a South African Junior Squad of U18 Boys and Girls and U16 Boys and Girls. The 2019 SA Junior Squad is made up of nine...

Zoe Steyn of Buffalo City Surfriders and Jordy Maree of Cape Town Surfriders win premiere Women’s and Men’s SA Championship titles and hosts Buffalo City Surfriders sweep the board at the 2018 Mercedes–Benz SA Championships hosted by Buffalo City. Sunday August 12th -...

The Zigzag Durban Surf Pro presented by Graham Smith Surfboards, which takes place in Durban from this Friday to Sunday, will be the first of the final three City Surf Series events to include a Stand Up Paddle race. Surfing South Africa’s Stand Up Paddleboard...

Monday May 14th –  Nahoon Beach, East London: Contest officials and the Beach Manager halted all competition at about 2pm on Day One of the Reef Wetsuits Nahoon Junior Open presented by Sea Harvest and Twizza after a surfer was attacked by a shark at...

Victoria Bay in the Eden District will get the 2018 South African Surf Tour underway with the 1A Rated Reef Wetsuits Vic Bay Gromcomp presented by Sea Harvest which takes place at the famous right hand point break this weekend. Thanks to sponsorship...

Over 120 surfers representing eight Districts out of three Provinces will compete in the 26th edition of the Sea Harvest South African Grommet Games at the Pipe, Pollock Beach in Nelson Mandela Bay from this Thursday to Sunday. This unique surfing tournament,...

Saturday March 10th  : In celebration of International Women’s week twenty three girls took to the Muizenberg Corner surf in the 2018 edition of the Girls Summersurf Challenge on Saturday (March 10th). Although the waves were small there was very little wind...

Sunday February 25th - The SWOT Surf Club made history at Surfers Corner in Muizenberg today when they successfully defended their title at the Sea Harvest Interclub Surfing Championships. The locally based community surf club earned the right...

  Defending Champions S.W.O.T Surf Club host the Sea Harvest South African Interclub Championships at their home break this weekend. Nineteen teams representing fifteen surf clubs from all parts of South Africa will be in action at...

Six young South African surfers were rewarded for their achievements in 2017 when they received Sea Harvest Surfing Excellence Awards at a ceremony held at the company’s head office in Woodstock on Thursday, 11 January. The Sea Harvest Surfing Excellence Awards...