 | South Africa is blessed with the kind of surfing talent that on any given day and at any given contest we can just throw some random local surfers into the line up and have them beating the world’s best. Who also happens to be a South African. What can we say? Our cup runneth over. ...read more |
Cold Water
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 by Rock Bottom, images by Craig Kolesky
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5 Minutes with the King
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 by Andy Davis, images by Craig Kolesky
 | Ever since Jordy Smith first started winning surfing events on the junior circuit, he’s been tipped as a world champion. That’s a lot of expectation to lump on a kid. But he was just that good. And he seemed to thrive on the attention. ...read more |
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Surfing is not Golf
Monday, July 19th, 2010 by Rock Bottom, images by Craig Kolesky
 | The days of competitive surfers being able to freely express their emotions in the view, or ear shot, of the surfing public are over. Fines at this year’s Mr Price Pro were getting dished out almost as easily as yellow cards in a Fifa World Cup final. ...read more |
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Last Sunday
Sunday, June 20th, 2010 by Tyrone Bradley and Joshua Reynolds
 | Last Sunday, 11h14, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Durban. ...read more |
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Grom Abuse
Friday, June 4th, 2010 by Andy Davis
 | After six weeks of relative calm, the police in Durban have started rounding up street kids, piling them in the back of vans with vagrants, gangsters and other nefarious adults and dumping them a few hours out of town. A massive human rights violation which is tantamount to child abuse. Mahala recently ran a story on the street kid round ups, and soon after it seemed as if the Durban city council had called a truce with ...read more |
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Most Excellent
Friday, May 14th, 2010 by Craig Jarvis, images by Louis Wulff
 | One doesn’t realize just how big the playing field is at Super Tubes in Jeffrey’s Bay, one of the greatest waves in the world. If there was a legit list of seven wonders of the surfing world, Supers would be right in there. Surfers from the world over come to visit, and local surfers do their best to maintain some sort of law and order in a line up that could easily go pear-shaped with out such control. Try ...read more |
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War on Two Fronts
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 by Andy Davis
 | Did you know that both of South Africa’s world class pointbreaks, J-Bay and E-Bay, are under threat from the Department of Minerals and Energy? If you’re a surfer, you’d at least be aware that South Africa is indeed blessed with two of the world’s most perfect pointbreaks, on either side of the country. It’s like some kind of divine symmetry for surfers. ...read more |
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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 ...read more |
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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. ...read more |
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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. ...read more |
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