Your first off-the-bottom-off-the-top combo occurs in Glenwood, in a road renamed after a person that doesn’t exist. You put your car on its rail and carve between a granny in Honda Jazz and an irate plumber indicating at an orange light – shouting into his cell phone at his ex-wife while his three assistants catch a couple Z’s in the back of his tiny old bakkie. A bather hurls himself out of harms way and rolls down a bank into
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Durban City Syndrome
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 by Luke Mason, image by Billy Pineapples
Your first off-the-bottom-off-the-top combo occurs in Glenwood, in a road renamed after a person that doesn’t exist. You put your car on its rail and carve between a granny in Honda Jazz and an irate plumber indicating at an orange light – shouting into his cell phone at his ex-wife while his three assistants catch a couple Z’s in the back of his tiny old bakkie. A bather hurls himself out of harms way and rolls down a bank into
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Moroc ‘n Rollers
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 by Samora Chapman
Part 2: Holy baptisms, forget your sins.
We woke up early and peered through the window at the dusty street scene of Aurir, a haggard little town on the coast of Morocco, North Africa. A group of men sat contemplating, covered in hooded robes and brightly coloured pointy shoes. A pack of filthy hounds rummaged in a gutter that ran blood red. Further up the road a butcher was slitting throats in the dawn.
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Stoke Street
Monday, January 4th, 2010 by Roger Young, images Justin McGee
“They go out every day, whatever the conditions,” says Tom from Umthombo as the kids are suiting up. It’s Saturday, nearly noon and the young surfers have been held back from their morning surf because they were waiting for us to deliver the eleven boards that one of Mahala’s faithful, Josh Reynolds, has collected over the Christmas season.
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Just Now, Dude
Friday, December 11th, 2009 by Andy Davis
If you’re in the Mother(less) city tonight, you should head down to Clifton 4th when it gets dark and take in the Wavescape Surf Film Festival’s outdoor screening of The Present. A brilliant, varied and somewhat eccentric surf flick that somehow managed to annoy the shit out of me, and then surprise, inspire and excite me all in one go
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Mahala Surf & Reggae Festival
Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by Andy Davis
Tidal Waves, Bed on Bricks, Fletcher and comedian Kagiso Lediga will be playing to a packed out South Peninsula Cape Town crowd next weekend. It’s a fund raising gig for Mahala’s non-profit philanthropic association the Mahala Surf Co.
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Eddie Should Know Better
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 by Andy Davis
Back in September we ran an article about how the most prestigious event in the world of big wave surfing, the Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, long the preserve of American and the odd Australian surfers, was about to open up their doors to the legion of South African big wave surfers, who rank among the best in the world but are consistently left out in the cold.
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Drifting Along
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by Craig Jarvis
The ASP has had the injury wildcard for a number of years, but the jury is still out as to whether they always use it fairly. When Rob Machado was injured in 2001 with a broken wrist, it was assumed that he would get the injury wildcard. He had been a runner-up in the world title race a few years earlier, and had consistently placed high in pro events the world over.
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Subtropicalia
Monday, October 12th, 2009 by Andy Davis
A while back the artist Paul Edmunds contacted us at Mahala and asked if we have any old, ruined wetsuits to spare for one of his projects. I was incredulous. Of course we did. As you know, part of Mahala Surf Co’s work is to collect and distribute second hand surf equipment to underprivileged communities. We get a lot of wetsuits. Some of them are really crummy.
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