All posts tagged South Africa
Siyabonga Ntshingila
Lonwabo Tsotsobe's devastating form against the Bangladeshis should, hopefully, have made the selectors sit up and take note. Having been consigned to the role of drinks boy for most of the group stages, Tsotsobe reminded all and sundry why he was...
Siyabonga Ntshingila
"We have to pick ourselves up. We haven't become bad players because of one performance. We'll have to work on our decision making." -- Graeme Smith, January 15 2011. "We've got to learn from today, pick ourselves up." -- Graeme Smith March 6 2011...
Adam Wakefield
With the Cricket World Cup upon us, for those who don't really understand one of the most archaic sports going around, here is what you need to know about the teams competing (the ones who can win the tournament at least ... apologies to the associat...
Siyabonga Ntshingila
Finally, all the paperwork and red tape has been cleared and Imran Tahir is set to be a Protea. This is big news. Why so, you may ask? Because why, as hulle se op die Oos Rand, his international career presents a challenge, not only to himself to ...
Adam Wakefield
It is a familiar scene at any Test match in South Africa: The teams have run onto the pitch and are lined up for the national anthems. The visiting team gets proceedings under way with their anthem, once concluded they receive a polite smattering of ...
Adam Wakefield
The media's role in a functioning democratic society is inseparable from the freedom enjoyed by such a society's citizens. The Fourth Estate should act as a watchdog, hold those in political office accountable and keep the public abreast of what they...
Adam Wakefield
I don't know about you but SA is pretty boring without the World Cup isn't it? Not really, but the Rainbow Nation has been experiencing the lamest of July hangovers. Doctors are calling it WCW (and it has nothing to do with wrestling) -- World Cup...
Adam Wakefield
June 11 seems like an age ago doesn't it? It was only yesterday that us South Africans lost our collective shit in celebrating Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal against Mexico in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup at Soccer City Johannesburg. Since the...
Adam Wakefield
South Africa is a unique place in that there is a blend of cultures and creeds here that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. Sadly for football fans, SA is now also home to the unwanted and unique record of being the only hosts to have not pr...
Richard Calland
I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but sadly unavoidable irritant. With both Malema and the vuvuzela, their im...
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