Tag: South Africa
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Why Women’s Rugby is Growing in Leaps, Bounds, Scrums, & Kicks
World Rugby has revealed that the number of registered female players worldwide rocketed by 32,34% between 2014 and 2015. In 2015, there were 76 046 more registered female rugby players than in 2014, for a grand total of 311 204.
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A Love Letter to Durban, the Flawed & Charming City of My Birth
For all its island-style humidity and drone-sized mosquitos, Durban is, for those of us who left our childhoods there, entwined with our sense of identity.
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The Oke’s Guide to the Perfect Rugby Picnic
Before I carry on, droëwors is not biltong. Biltong should be delivered in stages. It should be rationed. Biltong during rugby is finished quicker than a new Harry Potter novel at a primary school.
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Anton Harber: “News is the stuff people don’t want you to talk about”
Few gave the Weekly Mail much chance of surviving beyond a few months, but more than three decades after, as the Mail & Guardian, it remains one of the leading independent newspapers in the world.
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Memories of my father, in the heart of the wild Karoo
In the middle of nowhere, a journey into self and memory sparks the realisation that heritage is the force that shapes you and brings you to where you are right now. By Garret Brent
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Angel Jones on why SA expats are flocking back home
Leaving the land of your birth to settle in another country is never easy. It’s a change that sparks upheaval as well as opportunity. But harder still, is making the decision to come back home
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Zapiro, the Patriot with a Poison Pen
From fire-pools to fleeing dictators, South Africa is a cartoonist’s dream, and no one captures its rollercoaster craziness as eloquently and bitingly as Zapiro