Six sessions level, one session to settle it: South Africa win 13 of 32 finals on Day 4, Namibia sweep the senior sprints and both relay records, Botswana post their biggest medal haul of the week and Lesotho's four swimmers all finish GABORONE, Botswana – 5 September 2026 – For six sessions the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships had refused to choose between South Africa and Namibia. On Saturday, across 32 individual finals and six relays in the longest session of the week, it finally did. South Africa won 1...Read More
Four more championship records, three finals decided by six hundredths or less, a golden double for Zimbabwe's youngsters and Lesotho's women make their debut on a breathless Day 3 evening in Gaborone GABORONE, Botswana – 4 September 2026 – Six sessions, 96 individual finals, and South Africa and Namibia have still not been separated on gold. The Day 3 evening session of the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships, sixteen finals across the 50m Backstroke and 100m Breaststroke, ended with each nation on 28 ind...Read More