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This year, the Open Disclosure Foundation (ODF) celebrates its fourth birthday, and there are so many reasons for this incredible organisation to celebrate. At the heart of the ODF is Andile Carelse (nee Gaelesiwe), a kwaito artist who in 2001 revealed her painful past of being raped as a child. After […]
2007 July gSTAR: Tsakane Mbewe
Tsakane Mbewe’s netball hero is SA veteran goal shooter, Sindisiwe Gumede and the one thing the two have in common is their height. Tsakane is nowhere close to Sindisiwe’s towering frame, but at 1.79m tall, she is often one of the taller girls on court, and she sure knows how to use height […]
2007 July Style Star: Hlubi Mboya
Popular Isidingo actress, Hlubi Mboya, is a bundle of energy and readily admits that sport and exercise play a big part in her life’s successes. If she is not sweating it out at the gym, you can find Hlubi learning African contemporary dancing, because, as she says, exercise is a celebration of […]
2007 July Woman in Media: Vaylen Kirtley
As a teenager, Vaylen Kirtley graced our television screens with her bubbly presentation style on SABC Sport. Now, at the age of 20, she has the kind of highlights some only dream of. Vaylen spoke to gsport about life as a sports broadcaster in South Africa, her role models, her inspirations and aspirations, and her love for sport. Introducing gsport’s July Woman in Media, one of South Africa’s hottest young broadcasting talents, Vaylen Kirtley!
2007 July Woman: Andile Carelse
This year, the Open Disclosure Foundation (ODF) celebrates its fourth birthday, and there are so many reasons for this incredible organisation to celebrate. At the heart of the ODF is Andile Carelse (nee Gaelesiwe), a kwaito artist who in 2001 revealed her painful past of being raped as a child. After […]
Star Search: Newtown’s Chipeya Academy
Prof Chipeya is passionate about unearthing sports stars, and has his star pupils to prove it. When national goal shooter, and our July gSTAR, Tsakane Mbewe, told gsport that he discovered her and turned her into a star, we had to track down the well-known sports coach, and hear more about his passion for […]
Wonder Woman: The First Day on Earth
In our increasingly fragmented world, few pregnant women have ever seen (let alone attended) a birth when the time comes for their own child to be born. We are far removed from instinctual womanhood, developed and nurtured by having close women friends and family-members attend to one another in labour and birth. […]
Rayana Ameeroedien: Thaiboxing Promoter
My name is Rayana Ameeroedien; professional Kickboxer and current South African Bantamweight Thaiboxing Champion. I started training in the sport of Thaiboxing (or ‘Muay Thai’, similar to Kickboxing, but where you get to use your knees and elbows in fighting) to get fit and build confidence. I’ve gained so much more in […]
Robyn de Groot’s Chong Ming Island Cycle Tour
The traveling required to get to Chong Ming Island was a lot longer than what we had anticipated and expected. When we arrived at the airport in Shanghai, we were welcomed by 3 Chinese men who were there to collect us and escort us to the hotel.
Nike Women’s Sports Stars Making Impact
People often ask if women’s sport is improving, and I guess the mere fact that they’re asking the question, means that we’re finally talking about women in sport and are interested in their achievements.
5 minutes with Marsha Marescia – Vying for the Olympics!
If their recent performances are anything to go by, the SPAR National Women’s Hockey team should come out on tops in the upcoming All Africa Games, which also feature top opposition like Ghana and Nigeria. But the team is not taking anything for granted, and are working flat out to ensure they […]
Gearing for Netball World Champs!
South African national netball coach, Burta de Kock, is a realistic woman. She understands that things may not always go the way she wants, but she is prepared to work with any situation, to make sure that South Africa is always well represented on the world stage.