Photo: SASCOC

Following the successful voting of Chukuru as Team South Africa’s mascot for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games and beyond, the nation has now been invited to help choose the official kit that South Africa will proudly wear at the Opening Ceremony for this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.

The SA men's hockey team arrive at OR Tambo Airport at 7 am on Tuesday. Please inform the public if you can.

A press conference will take place at OR Tambo Southern Sun 9 for 9.30 am Tuesday.

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South Africa men's hockey team head coach Gregg Clark said after his team had won the Olympic Qualifier Tournament final 2-1 against Japan at Gifu Green Stadium in Kakamigahara, Japan Sunday that the road to qualifying for London 2012 had been long and difficult.

JONATHAN COOK
in Kakamigahara

The South Africa men’s hockey team beat host nation Japan 2-1 after the scores were locked 0-0 at half-time in the Olympic Qualifier Tournament’s sell-out final at Gifu Green Stadium Sunday.

JONATHAN COOK
in Kakamigahara

The South Africa men’s hockey team and Japan were locked 0-0 after an action-packed first half of the Olympic Qualifier Tournament final at a sell-out Gifu Green Stadium Sunday in this semi-rural town three hours’ drive fromTokyo.

JONATHAN COOK
in Kakamigahara

Not even a faint Earth tremour that set the TV sets in their hotel bedrooms rattling or overnight lightning and thunder to rival anything on the Highveld was enough to divert the focus of a quietly confident South Africa men's hockey team from the task ahead at Gifu Green Stadium in this sleepy Japanese town Sunday.

JONATHAN COOK

The South Africa U21 women’s hockey squad of 23 that was selected at the conclusion of the recent SA U21 Interprovincial Tournament at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria is as follows: