All posts tagged South Africa
Adam Wakefield
Detective Jimmy McNulty once said in The Wire, when referring to lives on the street versus the way politics interacts with those lives, "It just never connects." He was known to be a brilliant detective, but self-destructive, at the cost of those ...
Adam Wakefield
South Africa won their first Test series at home since beating Bangladesh in 2008 after two dominant displays at Centurion and Newlands, plus being taught a lesson at Kingsmead in Durban (again). Jacques Kallis silenced his ever-present band of cr...
Adam Wakefield
Journalism allows you the opportunity to see, hear and read a lot of different opinions on how sports teams overcome tough patches to eventually triumph in a manner that would demand an unlimited bar tab at the big game after-party. So with that ...
Adam Wakefield
It has been 20 years since South Africa re-entered international cricket when they played India in Calcutta on November 10 1991, in what was the country's first ODI. Two of the men who played in that match, Andrew Hudson and Allan Donald, are nowÂ...
Adam Wakefield
SuperSport is purportedly one of the best and largest sports broadcasters in the world. Seven channels, slick production value, a 24-hour news channel no longer reliant on foreign broadcasters and an infrastructure as big as any other major sports br...
Adam Wakefield
I'm currently in Cape Town, and after getting through the frequent stop and goes along the N1, the town of Colesburg (home of an awesome Wimpy breakfast and many a speed camera) was where I and a friend spent the night. Whenever travelling through th...
Adam Wakefield
In Wednesday morning's edition of The Star, it was reported that "rugby, followed by power lifting and boxing, were the most doped-out sports in South Africa last year". Between April last year and March this year, the SA Institute for Drug-Free S...
Peter Church
If betting odds are any indication, then New Zealand will play England in the final of RWC 2011. The weekend’s results have caused a major shuffle at the New Zealand TAB. While Australia and South Africa remain as second and third favourites respec...
Adam Wakefield
I awoke this morning to find out that Darren Scott has reportedly resigned from both SuperSport and Jacaranda 94.2 after it was reported that he referred to a colleague as a k*****. I don't know Scott personally at all but have come to respect him...
Adam Wakefield
England has wrapped up its victory against India at Edgbaston and quite comprehensively. Alastair Cook's serene 294 (more runs than India have managed in an entire innings throughout the current series) proved the platform for England's monumental 71...
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