South Africa at the 2014 Commonwealth Games on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.<br> <nowiki>*</nowiki> – Indicates athlete swam in the preliminaries but not in the final race. South Africa at the 2014 Commonwealth Games South Africa competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July – 3 August 2014. It is the sixth occasion that South Africa has been represented at the Commonwealth Games since re-joining the Commonwealth in 1994 after a break of 33 years during the international sports isolation period. The squad is spread over 15 codes, from aquatics to wrestling. <nowiki>*</nowiki>
2006 Commonwealth Games youthfully optimistic character of Melbourne city. The two figures in the logo joined together to form a letter M, which is the initial letter of Melbourne, the games host city. Karak was the mascot for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He was modelled on a red-tailed black cockatoo, a threatened species within the host country, Australia. On 20 March 2006 it was reported that two athletes had gone missing from the Commonwealth Games village: Tanzanian boxer Omari Idd Kimweri and Bangladeshi runner Mohammad Tawhidul Islam. On 22 March 2006 it was reported that seven athletes from Sierra Leone (three women and