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From Smith to Vester, Sacos stars capable of beating the world
THE public reaction in the Cape Argus by supporters of the South African Council on Sport’s (Sacos) athletes has sullied the name and history of a principled organisation. These SMSes arrived after...
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SASSSA champ Simpson’s talent not fully exploited
O’NEIL SIMPSON (September) of Boland was a highly talented middle-distance athlete. An athlete short in stature, he held the South African Senior Schools Sports Association (SASSSA) boys open 800m (1...
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Marthinus triumphs over adversity
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS JANTJIE Marthinus rose above countless obstacles to become an unparalleled nine times senior men’s 800m champion. Born in 1962 in the small town of Brandvlei near Calvinia in the...
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Titans couple fly in for Two Oceans race
COLIN Jeftha and his wife Yolanda, formerly of the Titans Amateur Athletics Club in Belhar, Cape Town, flew in from Australia to compete in the Two Oceans 56km ultra marathon at the weekend. Colin...
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Teachers put Shawn Abrahams on the right track
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE story of Shawn Abrahams, a young man who shot to prominence from the dusty streets of Belhar near Cape Town airport to competing on the best athletics tracks in Europe, is...
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Top achiever Mark Frank is a champion of the underdog
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS TAKE something so ordinary, flip it, and do it differently. The words of Mark Frank, poet, writer and author. Frank has certainly flipped his upbringing in Woodlands Mitchell’s...
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How racial politics barred SA athletes from the international spotlight
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS This is the first chapter of a three-part series about former star athlete Johan Landsman of the Belhar-based Titans Amateur Athletics Club who had the opportunity to showcase...
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Polished Landsman remembers his roots
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the second chapter of a three-part series about former star athlete Johan Landsman. Read part one here How racial politics barred SA athletes from the international...
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Meeting with Mandela convinced Landsman of his choice
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a three-part series about former star Johan Landsman who met Mandela for the first time at the Peninsula Technikon in Bellville (read part two here...
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Parrott makes a case for Sacos coaches
BY ALLAN PARROTT THE article in which Johan Landsman imagined how Tessa Hefele and Suezette Arendse would have improved if they had other coaches, made me think about a question posed to me by the...
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Wembley Twilight Fun Run kept flame of athletics alive
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS NON-RACIAL sport had always been ridiculed for not being up to standard. But this was without contextualising the socio-economic and socio-political position of an all-white...
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SASSSA champ Simpson’s talent not fully exploited
O’NEIL SIMPSON (September) of Boland was a highly talented middle-distance athlete. An athlete short in stature, he held the South African Senior Schools Sports Association (SASSSA) boys open 800m (1...
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Marthinus triumphs over adversity
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS JANTJIE Marthinus rose above countless obstacles to become an unparalleled nine times senior men’s 800m champion. Born in 1962 in the small town of Brandvlei near Calvinia in the...
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Titans couple fly in for Two Oceans race
COLIN Jeftha and his wife Yolanda, formerly of the Titans Amateur Athletics Club in Belhar, Cape Town, flew in from Australia to compete in the Two Oceans 56km ultra marathon at the weekend. Colin...
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Teachers put Shawn Abrahams on the right track
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE story of Shawn Abrahams, a young man who shot to prominence from the dusty streets of Belhar near Cape Town airport to competing on the best athletics tracks in Europe, is...
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Top achiever Mark Frank is a champion of the underdog
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS TAKE something so ordinary, flip it, and do it differently. The words of Mark Frank, poet, writer and author. Frank has certainly flipped his upbringing in Woodlands Mitchell’s...
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How racial politics barred SA athletes from the international spotlight
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS This is the first chapter of a three-part series about former star athlete Johan Landsman of the Belhar-based Titans Amateur Athletics Club who had the opportunity to showcase...
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Polished Landsman remembers his roots
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the second chapter of a three-part series about former star athlete Johan Landsman. Read part one here How racial politics barred SA athletes from the international...
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Meeting with Mandela convinced Landsman of his choice
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a three-part series about former star Johan Landsman who met Mandela for the first time at the Peninsula Technikon in Bellville (read part two here...
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Parrott makes a case for Sacos coaches
BY ALLAN PARROTT THE article in which Johan Landsman imagined how Tessa Hefele and Suezette Arendse would have improved if they had other coaches, made me think about a question posed to me by the...
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