Tshenolo Pro Cycling is a new UCI Continental Team from Africa for the 2026 season. Established only a year ago as a club team in South Africa, and after huge success at the UCI 2.2 Tour of Benin on a wildcard entry, the team - based out of Pretoria -decided to register with the UCI and begin to build something.

'Tshenolo' means 'revelation' in Setswana, and as the first UCI team out of South Africa in a good while, they hope to be a revelation in world cycling! With a good calendar in place for the first half of the year, the South African nations in early Feb, and Tour du Rwanda at the end of February, we hope to see big things from this exciting team. Rumours of a Women's Continental Team registration for 2027 are also hot off the press.

On this podcast, we talk to Thabiso Rengane (Team Manager) and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (Road Captain) about the journey so far, and their dreams for the team.

We hope you enjoy this podcast! Please also check out this article we wrote about them for CyclingNews, and give Tshenolo a follow on their Instagram as well for all their latest news and developments.

African cycling history was made today.

The roster for the first professional women’s cycling team with FIVE riders from across all four corners of Africa was announced today on ProCyclingStats!

The five women on the UCI Continental level World Cycling Centre Team are from Algeria, Benin*, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Rwanda (* Georgette is Benin’s first ever pro cyclist!)

To react to the news and discuss this, we have two guesttonight who know all these women very well. Firstly, Shannon Porthault, the Co-founder of the Rwanda Bookmobilecharity and very active supporter of the Ndabaga Women’s Cycling Team in Rwanda. You can find out more about the Ndabaga women's team HERE

She is joined by Kimberly Coats, the CEO of Africa Rising Cycling, and a regular commentator on African women's cycling. Africa Rising Cycling has a dedicated news-wire for all things African women's cycling, which you can see HERE

You can see more details on the whole WCC Team squad on the ProCyclingStats website: LINK

In this episode, we talk to Ross Burrage, the co-founder of the Masaka Cycling Club Foundation (MCC) in Uganda.

MCC focuses on helping young Ugandan men and women become highly skilled young cyclists, with the dream of them getting their shot at going professional. Already one graduate of MCC has had a pro contract with an international team, with more to come!Ross co-founded MCC with Miiro Michael, who is based in Uganda and oversees all operations there domestically. MCC runs a blend of Zwift-based and IRL training and coaching, as Ross explains, with a dedicated team of volunteers. They are very active on social media so do give them a follow!

MCC is 100% funded by donations from cycling fans around the world. They are hoping to get 500 fans to regularly donate to fund their efforts, so please do hit this link and join the several hundred of like-minded individuals supporting Masaka! Link below:
Donate to the Masaka Cycling Club — Masaka Cycling Club