One World Cup you may not have heard of is kicking off in Durban next week. It doesn’t feature any professional athletes, no big names, brand endorsements, bling bling and multi-million dollar salaries. In fact hardly any one even knows about this World Cup, primarily because the participants are all street kids.
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The Street World Cup
Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Andy Davis
One World Cup you may not have heard of is kicking off in Durban next week. It doesn’t feature any professional athletes, no big names, brand endorsements, bling bling and multi-million dollar salaries. In fact hardly any one even knows about this World Cup, primarily because the participants are all street kids.
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Rugga Culture Clash
Monday, February 22nd, 2010 by Samora Chapman
On Friday arvy the Durban sea creatures flooded the ABSA stadium for a battle between demi-god beasts; the Sharks and the Cheetahs. I felt like a small fish in a social-shark tank, 30 000 strong. I entered the stadium amongst the patter of feet scuttling all over the massive concrete auditorium, like little creatures boarding a giant spaceship. Electric air. Red-faced men filled their goblets with golden chwala.
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Get on your Bike
Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Sean O'Toole
On the last Friday of every month, a bunch of luddites – we like to call ourselves cyclists – meet in Cape Town for an early morning cycle through town. Nothing special. Either you meet at the Baxter Theatre, where the ride originates, or pick up with the peloton at the Convention Centre. From there, well, I’ll get to that in a bit.
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Africa’s Number 1
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 by Andy Davis
In case you hadn’t noticed, the World Cup is happening, Didier Drogba’s face is painted on the Johannesburg skyline in lights, beaming out to us the message that the football gods are coming. A nightly reminder on Jozi’s face. Africa’s greatest football star. The dark continent’s leading light. Destroyer of Premiership dreams, humbler of defenders everywhere. Africa’s number one goal digger.
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The Beard
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Brandon Edmonds
We drew. The Basil D trophy is where it should be. Strauss is ‘jaded’ and has foregone the captaincy, Smith made a stump mic fart, Trott & Pietersen seemed ambivalent being ‘home’, and the work-horse Ntini has finally been shown the thanks-but-you’re-done door. It was a good summer Test series, without ever being a great one.
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Player of the Decade
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Petra Mason
With golf champ Tiger Wood’s girl count in the double digits and headlines about all night sex parties, girl-on-girl 3-ways, ecstasy, S+M, kinky quickies and pretty much anything a dirty mind or rather the gutter press like “The New York Post” can make up, it’s time for us freaks to show Tiger some love.
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More than a Game
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by Brendon Bosworth
Ashamedly, I didn’t understand most of Helen Zille’s speech at the opening of the Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha on Saturday. Not because the premier was mispronouncing, she being most eloquent in her elocution, but because my isiXhosa doesn’t extend much past molweni. What I did take away was that, “football is much more than a game”.
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Run Like You Being Chased
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Although the name Ruben Ramolefi sounds like a character from Generations, don’t be fooled the 31 year old athlete is one of our leading lights on the athletic track. And Ruben likes to lead from the front. His event is the 3km steeple chase. A technical and arduous race that requires a high level of skill, focus and determination to do well at
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