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Frank van der Horst urges sports unity in South Africa

 “Take the movement forward in one direction, with one goal.” Report by CLEMENT DU PLESSIS IN a watershed moment and...

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Hewat shut down after 55 years

THE colour photograph depicts the Hewat senior men’s 4x100m, 4x400m and medley relay team who participated at an athletics meeting...

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Pitch-up, participate, perform!

 By Allan Parrott THE post of the three boys of Stellenbosch standing on the podium and the author’s comment [Clement...

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Closure of Hewat Training College a shame

HEWAT Training College (HTC) in Crawford, Cape Town, over the years, has produced many top-class athletes as far back as...

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Inaugural conference probes decolonisation of sport in South Africa

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS SENIOR ACADEMICS and former athletics stars gathered at a two-day South African Sport Historical Studies Conference,...

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Speed sensation Odessa Krause lit up the track

CLEMENT DU PLESSIS “I’VE never seen anything like that before. An athlete with so much natural speed, aggression, pluck and...

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Former athlete honours coach Willie Davids

          By Emeraan Ishmail  DURING the “golden years” of non-racial sport during Apartheid in the 1980’s,...

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Perseverance pays off for speedster Kevin Africa

A MAN of few words, Kevin Africa just got on with it on the track. He has the distinction of...

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