The late-December, early-January holiday period is a time for relaxing and spending time with family after a year of hard work.
When you have some time to yourself, why not sit back and put your feet up in front of the TV and watch the following sport.
Soccer
Soccer has the biggest line up you can watch these holidays. Absa Premiership matches run throughout this period but for a break between 24 December and 3 January.
The English Premier League, on the other hand, has even more games around the Christmas and New Year period.
Cricket
Pakistan tour South Africa for three Test matches, five one-day internationals and three T20 internationals between 26 December and 6 February. This includes the annual boxing-day Test match on 26 December in Centurion. South Africa is currently ranked third in the world according to the International Cricket Council Test team rankings, and Pakistan is seventh.
But the two countries have a long history of competitive cricket, and Pakistan’s fast bowlers have always found our pitches favourable to their style of bowling.
Golf
The US PGA Tour’ s Sentry Tournament of Champions runs from 3 to 7 January at Plantation Course in Maui. The purse is $1,260,000 (more than R18 million).
Rugby
The Springboks do not play during this period, and rugby fans will have to wait until 26 January until the next HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in New Zealand.
Tennis
Tennis fans will have to wait until the Australian Open starts on 14 January. It finishes two weeks later.
Boxing
Boxing fights will be held every weekend through December and January, including Manny Pacquiao and Adrian Broner’s WBA welterweight title fight on 19 January.
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