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The athlete that God fuels

The athlete that God fuels

New Frame — You may never have heard of Keegan van der Merwe, but his story reveals in heartbreaking detail what happens when sports development is denied. It has a triumphant ending - beyond how quickly he can stop a clock - but remains a lesson in what can be lost when talent is actively neglected.
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It has taken a family to raise Haashim Domingo

It has taken a family to raise Haashim Domingo

New Frame — To make sure his son made it to football practice on time, Habiel Domingo took an arduous path in 2003. The task of getting to training is taken for granted everywhere except in communities wracked by crime. There's little adult supervision and opportunity lies far, far away from home.
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Bereft mother pays it forward to honour slain son

Bereft mother pays it forward to honour slain son

New Frame — In the months before a bullet brought an end to his life, Alcardo Andrews, 27, would take food from his mother's fridge and offer it to a hungry neighbour or a stranger. It was more than an occasional gesture.
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A long walk to cricket stardom for Keegan Petersen

A long walk to cricket stardom for Keegan Petersen

New Frame — On the day Proteas batsman Keegan Petersen made his debut for the Boland amateur team in 2010, the then schoolboy walked the 7km from his home in Paarl East to Boland Park. Walking long distances is nothing new in South Africa's forgotten landscapes.
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PhD student cracks high-dimensional quantum code

PhD student cracks high-dimensional quantum code

New Frame — Popular depictions of scientists as either dark and twisted geniuses or wildly eccentric white men with a penchant for world domination have done little to advance the image of lab geeks everywhere. As the casual name-calling suggests, quantum scientists were thought of as socially inept and awkward to be around.
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Science ensures a succession of fast bowlers for SA

Science ensures a succession of fast bowlers for SA

New Frame — The act of fast bowling could, and should, be considered among the most aggressive and dangerous practices in sport. Few competitive sports call for hurling a rock-hard object at an opponent's head with the objective of removing said person from the crease.
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Sinalo Jafta is doing what they said she couldn't

Sinalo Jafta is doing what they said she couldn't

New Frame — There's probably no better way to motivate Sinalo Jafta, 26, than to tell her she cannot do something. She was told that a lot, growing up as a young girl and an aspiring cricketer. Now, the wicketkeeper's natural aversion to being treated any way but equally is the motivation fuelling her burgeoning international career.
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Against the ropes, Sisonke Boxing Club fights on

Against the ropes, Sisonke Boxing Club fights on

New Frame — Even with the odds weighed heavily in favour of dashed hopes and faded dreams, a boxing club run from a small, rundown room no bigger than a few square metres is producing champion fighters. There's little to no ventilation in the makeshift training gym that houses Sisonke Boxing Club in Hout Bay, Cape Town, but below the flickering fluorescent lights burns an incandescent love for boxing.
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Batting for escape on a field of dreams

Batting for escape on a field of dreams

New Frame — It wouldn't be hyperbole to suggest that a young cricketer growing up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape is more likely to dodge a bullet before he or she dodges a dangerously short delivery on the pitch.
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Vernon Philander wants SA cricket back on track

Vernon Philander wants SA cricket back on track

New Frame — As far as sporting swansongs go, Vernon Philander's last dance with cricket suffered a misstep, through no fault of his own. His transition from international cricketer to a stint of English county cricket in the autumn of his career was upended by a very global pandemic and a very personal tragedy.
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'Grab your opportunities with both hands'

'Grab your opportunities with both hands'

uct.ac.za — Takunda Chitaka, as an academic achiever from a young age, is no stranger to success. Equally, she is no stranger to the challenges that life can present along the way. However, it is not her failures or successes that define her life, but rather her spontaneous and positive approach, which has allowed her to grow as a researcher and a human being.
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Jonty Rhodes a 'beneficiary of white privilege'

Jonty Rhodes a 'beneficiary of white privilege'

New Frame — Privilege is quite a comfortable subject to broach with Jonty Rhodes, a cricketer who by his own admission has benefitted immensely from the opportunities afforded him by virtue of his skin colour.
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Busy Bee continues to sting despite challenges

Busy Bee continues to sting despite challenges

New Frame — Alfred Msutu Kewana came to Cape Town in search of work. It was 1988 and South Africa was, to put it mildly, in turmoil. The townships were alight as the state of emergency, used to crush political resistance, intensified in sheer brutality.
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SA rugby's racist roots and how to overturn them

SA rugby's racist roots and how to overturn them

New Frame — It didn't take eight white South African rugby players refusing to take a knee, or former Springbok Ashwin Willemse storming out of a television studio to realise that rugby has a race issue. Race and rugby have been inseparable since the first kickoff and its tentacles reach deep within the game's structures.
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Former Comrades champion Nick Bester in ICU after being attacked during robbery

Former Comrades champion Nick Bester in ICU after being attacked during robbery

Eyewitness News — Former Comrades champion Nick Bester is in ICU after being attacked while training in the Magalies mountains near his house on Sunday. In a post on Instagram, Bester's son Shaun-Nick said his father had been hit on the head with a rock, stripped of his clothes and beaten up.
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Makhaya Ntini reveals his loneliness and isolation in Proteas team

Makhaya Ntini reveals his loneliness and isolation in Proteas team

Eyewitness News — CAPE TOWN - Former Proteas fast bowler Makhaya Ntini has revealed the pain of loneliness and isolation he experienced during his time as a national team player. In an interview on SABC's Morning Live, Ntini spoke openly about being ostracised by his white teammates, and how Cricket South Africa unceremoniously cut ties with him as a player without the send-off reserved for other senior players.
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The waiting game: How COVID-19 is bringing SA sport to its knees

The waiting game: How COVID-19 is bringing SA sport to its knees

Eyewitness News — For the South African sports economy, live matches can't return soon enough. But will it be too late for some when it does?
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#ExtraTime with top SA gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz

#ExtraTime with top SA gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz

Eyewitness News — Caitlin Rooskrantz's mother, Veda gave up her full-time job for a part-time one to make sure her daughter didn't miss gymnastics practice and that nothing stood in the way of her progress. Rooskrantz was a busy child, climbing and jumping off furniture and quite literally bouncing off the walls.
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#ExtraTime with SA men's hockey coach Garreth Ewing

#ExtraTime with SA men's hockey coach Garreth Ewing

Eyewitness News — Garreth Ewing has a rich history with the game of hockey, from being a top player to taking up various technical roles within the national hockey set up. He spent 11 years as coach of the University of Johannesburg, leading them to 3 Premier League titles and one national university title.
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#EWNSPORTINGMOMENTS: How Wayde van Niekerk shook the world

#EWNSPORTINGMOMENTS: How Wayde van Niekerk shook the world

Eyewitness News — CAPE TOWN - August 14, 2016 will forever be etched in South Africa's memory as the day a 24-year-old young man from Cape Town had the world at his fast feet when he took gold in the 400m at the Rio Olympic Games - and broke the world record.
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'I lost an important Olympic moment,' says Chad le Clos

'I lost an important Olympic moment,' says Chad le Clos

Eyewitness News — CAPE TOWN - More than a gold medal, South Africa's swimming superstar Chad le Clos believes he was robbed of a special moment in history, and an opportunity to make his country proud when he took silver in the Rio Olympic Games 200m freestyle final behind drug cheat Sun Yang of China.
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Game, set, match, SA: Match in Africa breaks tennis spectator record

Game, set, match, SA: Match in Africa breaks tennis spectator record

Eyewitness News — The Match in Africa scoreline of 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Roger Federer was inconsequential. The numbers that were significant though, were 51 945 - a world record number of spectators watching a tennis match, and US$3,5-million - the amount of money raised last night for the Roger Federer Foundation.
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Cricket South Africa suspends Moroe after damning ethics & audit reports

Cricket South Africa suspends Moroe after damning ethics & audit reports

Eyewitness News — CAPE TOWN - Cricket South Africa CEO Thabang Moroe has been suspended following reports from its social and ethics committee, and the audit and risk committee. The reports apparently expose possible failure of controls at CSA. CSA released a statement on Friday explaining its decision.
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