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1950s 1960s 1970s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

How luck benefitted Sinton in coach MacKay

October 28, 2016November 17, 2019 admin 2 Comments Alex Abercrombie, Audrey Louw, Baron Kleinschmidt, Brian Louw, Cheryl Dixon, Dennis Mackay, Dick Mathee, Elize Morkel, Franklin Joshua, Gus Jacobs, Herman Gibbs, Ivan Masters, John Wippenaar, Khalid Desai, Laura Kleinschmidt, Lennie Witten, Lilian van der Schyff, Naomi Sylvester, Norman Stoffberg, Patricia Benn, Wesley Training College, WPSSSU

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a two-part series about former athletics coach, the 83-year-old Dennis

1950s 1960s 1970s Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

Joshua and MacKay masterminded first inter-house athletics meeting

October 21, 2016November 20, 2017 admin 7 Comments Audrey Louw, Bernie Levendal, Colin Barendilla, Connie Hartley, Daniel MacKay, Franklin Joshua, Herman Abrahams, Herman Gibbs, Ivan Masters, Julian Lenders, Pat Esau, Philip Tobias, Richard Rive, Wesley Training College

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE originators of the first inter-house schools’ athletics meeting affiliated to the Western Province Senior Schools

1970s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Cricket pitch roller cuts short Audrey Louw’s athletics career

July 15, 2016August 29, 2016 admin 3 Comments Audrey Louw, Christopher Minords, Frances Williams, Franklin Joshua, Joemat Idas, Norma Joseph, Sharon Alexander

ALL it took was a cricket pitch roller to end the promising athletics and ballet careers of Audrey Louw. Following

1950s Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Eddie May remembers Richard Rive – Part 3

May 7, 2016May 6, 2017 admin 0 Comments Alexander Sinton, Cecil Blows, Dennis Mackay, District Six, Eddie May, Franklin Joshua, Harry Hendricks, Richard Rive

THIS is the final chapter of a three-part series about former star athlete and sports coach, the 84-year-old Eddie May

1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990 - Present Day Athletics news Copyright ©2018 Highlights Special focus

Cecil Blows, the doyen of high school athletics

October 14, 2015April 16, 2021 admin 19 Comments Attie de Villiers, Cecil Blows, Dennis Mackay, Franklin Joshua, Gert Bam, Harry Hendricks, Norman Stoffberg, Peter Meyer, Phillip Tobias, Richard Rive

By Clement du Plessis THE Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union (an affiliate of the South African Senior Schools Sports

1990 - Present Day Athletics news Copyright ©2018

Madiba visits Alexander Sinton

August 3, 2015October 5, 2016 admin 1 Comment Dennis McKay, Franklin Joshua, Nelson Mandela

DID you know that Alexander Sinton High School in Crawford, Cape Town, was the first school Nelson Mandela visited on

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