WATCH: South Africa Takes Top Honours at 2025 Dance World Cup

Published on

8 July 2025

South Africa are world champions once again, this time at dance!

According to reports, a team of dancers from South Africa were officially crowned Overall World Champions for both Junior and Senior Commercial Hip Hop at the 2025 Dance World Cup, currently underway in Spain.

More than 8,500 dancers from 51 countries are competing at the Dance World Cup.

WATCH the reaction of Team South Africa after they were announced as the winners in their category:

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♬ South Africa Anthem (Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika) – National Anthems Orchestra

The team wowed the judges with their Squid Games-inspired hip-hop moves:

Liesl Smit

Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm