UPDATED 17 Jan 2022 Has the festive season taken its toll on the waist-line and fitness levels? Liz at Lancaster is spoilt for choice as far as gyms, exercise studios and outdoor activities are concerned. Oh dear … I wish writing about exercise counted towards fitness levels! Gyms with a range of activities For […]
Read More »Cycling along the Braamfontein Spruit Did you know how many “firsts” the Braamfontein Spruit can claim …. At 32 Kms, the Spruit is the longest municipal park in the world (according to the James Clarke of The Star StoepTalk fame). When proclaimed as such it was done through the first metropolitan act involving all 3 […]
Read More »Easter Sports Festival 2019 There are lots of chocolate bunnies in the supermarkets and the shelves are filled with Matzos … so that means that the schools rugby festival is coming up. One of, if not, the most important sporting event in the South African schools’ calendar, this Easter sports festival is hosted at 3 […]
Read More »There are more places in Soweto than Vilakazi Street Which name is more famous when it comes to tourist and outsider awareness of Soweto: Vilakazi Street or Mooki Street? Have tourists even heard of James Mpanza? Do they know of Soweto’s early beginnings? Or are they simply aware of the ‘only street in the world […]
Read More »Pass the ball … backwards??? South Africans are rugby mad and this is no exception when it comes to school boy rugby. I’m a philistine as far as this game is concerned, and I horrified my sons when I said, after 2 years of watching them play rugby, that I had only just realized that […]
Read More »International cricket matches at Wanderers If cricket is your game then you are in for a treat this January and February. The Indian cricket team who have arrived for a two month tour of South Africa are playing the Proteas in three Test matches, six One Day Internationals and three T20 matches during the tour. […]
Read More »It will take three to five years to see the economic benefits of the World Cup, a Human Sciences Research Council academic says. However, it was too early to tell how great these benefits would be, said Dr Udesh Pillay, head of research on service delivery at the HSRC. He added that the economic benefits […]
Read More »The World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands was the most-watched football game in US television history, drawing 24.3 million viewers, said Nielsen. According to a report on the IoL site, the final on the ABC network and Spanish-language Univision outdrew the June 26 US-Ghana match, which attracted 19.4 million viewers, and the 18.1 […]
Read More »John Carlin, the author of ’Playing the Enemy’, says all those stories, promoted by FIFA, among others, about the World Cup being the 1995 rugby World Cup all over again, about healing racial wounds, uniting the fractured nation and so forth, were off the mark. ’It was much, much better than that. What we saw […]
Read More »SA’s SWC stadia stun the world From Sport24 12th July 2010 South Africa’s Soccer World Cup stadiums have stunned the globe’s largest sporting audience with audacious style although critics say a developing country can ill afford such extravagance and some will be white elephants. When South Africa won the right to stage the tournament six […]
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