By Odirile Mekwa
I sat on the psychologist's soft leather couch and he asked us to play a game called "association". I take it most people have seen this game in movies. The "shrink" pulls out a picture and the patient says the first thing that sp...
By Millington Gumbo
A couple of things intrigue me in life. Politics is one, history is another, but it is football which trumps them all.
Football is the ultimate meritocracy wherein skills and teamwork and not money or privilege determine th...
Can somebody please explain how Fifa goes about running "world" football?
If it truly claims to represent the interests of world football, why is it that Europe and the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) seem to get a better deal than...
The good news is that the South African government and Eastern Cape government, along with the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, have collectively spent R2 billion in developing a magnificent and spectacular multipurpose sports facility in t...
Seven months ago, Port Elizabeth's 2010 stadium managers, architects, construction workers and other role-players had their faces rubbed in the dirt.
The venue had initially been selected as the only new stadium chosen for this year's eight-natio...
As Bafana Bafana approach what might turn out to be the most defining game of the progress made (or lack thereof), more doubts have been cast about the man at the helm, Joel Natalino Santana.
He will face the biggest game of his coaching career wh...
Back in June this year, I wrote an article titled “Do white South Africans hate local soccer?” Little did I know that Essop Pahad would be castigated for expressing the same sentiment, but in a different way.
The responses to the above-mention...
As I watched the Beijing Olympics, I could not help myself but envy the Chinese.
One question kept coming to me: Can we, as South Africans -- the sport-mad nation that we claim to be -- show such a united front when the world’s media and tourist...
Throughout this land and much of the sub-continent, ordinary people are hoping to cash in on the world’s biggest single-code sporting event.
But four years after South Africa was granted the rights to host the 2010 World Cup, it is still uncle...
The SuperSport TV channels showed us the entire European Championship soccer tournament in Austria/Switzerland -- many great matches with excellent soccer, providing an excellent learning opportunity for all PSL teams and Bafana Bafana.
We saw ho...
