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Started by veteran sports journalist Cynthia Tshaka in 2002, the Discovery Sports Heroes Walk against AIDS sees a number of sports stars walking 1700km to raise money to help fight HIV/AIDS. “When Cynthia asked me to get involved in the Walk, I didn’t think twice,” said Desiree Ellis. “This is my way of giving back to the community.” Photo: Supplied

Ellis Walks for Charity

By on 7 November, 2012 in Charity, Newsroom, Running

Former Banyana Banyana captain Desiree Ellis has found a way to give back to the community by participating in the Discovery Sports Heroes Walk against AIDS.

Athletes up and down the Garden Route are preparing for the inaugural Sunrise Women’s Challenge in George on Saturday, with proceeds going to the Up with Down’s school for children with special needs. Photo: Supplied

Sunrise Women’s Challenge Turns Five

By on 25 October, 2012 in Charity, Newsroom, Running

The Sunrise Women’s Challenge, sponsored by Heather Park SUPERSPAR in George, is set to raise funds in aid of the Up with Down’s school for children with special needs on Saturday, October 27.

Some of the volunteers from the East Rand branch of Reach for Recovery. The Ekurhuleni breast cancer awareness group was formed in 2009 in Kwa-Thema Springs. Breast cancer support group, Reach for Recovery, has been helping breast cancer patients for 45 years. Look out for them at the SPAR Johannesburg 10km Challenge this Sunday and support a good cause. Photo: Supplied

Breast Cancer Awareness at SPAR Race

By on 13 October, 2012 in Charity, Features, Fitness & Health, Newsroom, Running

Breast cancer support group, Reach for Recovery, has been helping breast cancer patients for 45 years. Look out for them at the SPAR Johannesburg 10km Challenge this Sunday, and support a good cause.

Proteas women’s cricketers Dane van Niekerk (left) with Marizanne Kapp doing their bit with Cricket SA on Mandela Day, at the Alexandra Cricket Club, Johannesburg. Photo: Cricket SA

Women’s Cricketers Contribute to Mandela Day

By on 19 July, 2011 in Charity, Cricket, Newsroom

Dane van Niekerk and Marizanne Kapp from the Proteas women’s cricket team lent a helping hand, as Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the Gauteng Cricket Board (GCB) joined forces and decided to celebrate Mandela Day this year by giving back to its cricket structures.

Entries Pour In for George OCC

By on 20 January, 2011 in Charity

Entries for the Outeniqua Wheelchair Challenge (OCC) are approaching the 500 mark as they continue to come in from across South Africa and abroad ahead of the 30 January deadline. This growing annual event, presented by Vodacom, will take place in George for the ninth time on 19 February 2011. Among the new international entrants [...]

Second Chances through Boxing Exchange

By on 29 October, 2010 in Boxing, Charity

Laureus South Africa Chairman Morné du Plessis has hailed the groundbreaking project exchange visit taking place in Johannesburg later this month, which also has the support of Fellow Laureus SA Friend and Ambassador, Natalie du Toit, who has signaled that she will be attending the events in support. Representatives from Laureus-supported project Fight for Peace [...]

Comrades Donates Used Shoes

By on 28 September, 2010 in Charity

The Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) embarked on a simple but splendid community-enhancing initiative during the 2010 ‘Ultimate Human Race Day’, deciding to take its charitable outreach programme one step further by encouraging Comrades runners from all over the world to drop off their used running shoes at the Amabeadibeadi stands during registration in Pietermaritzburg and [...]

14 Checks for Liezel and Letshego

By on 22 July, 2010 in Charity

What do you get when you team up a Fear Factor finalist and the Idols Presenter? Then you also throw in a racing driver and seven businesspeople – you get a force to be reckoned with! Idols presenter Liezel van der Westhuizen teams up with Fear Factor finalist Letshego Moshoeu and eight men in a [...]