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Adam has been a cricket enthusiast since Allan Donald attempted to kill Michael Atherton in Johannesburg in 1995/96. His interest in all forms of sport mushroomed from that point onwards.

Back in Johannesburg, his home town, after a stint in Cape ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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After an unfortunate injury ended his promising career as a goalkeeper at age 16, Siphiwe Hlongwane started coaching youth football with moderate success. However, since the writing bug caught up with him, all he wants to do is to write about the bea... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Tony led the change in corporate identity of South African Airways from the airline of the old South Africa to the flag carrier of the new South Africa.
Before that he was a competitive provincial sportsmen in swimming, diving, waterpolo, lifesaving... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Bonga Ntshingila is a 25 year old avid sports fan,he had a promising youth sports career (as in coaches always promised he would play in the next match,and teammates always promised to moer him if he shanked yet another scoring opportunity).When he r... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Joseph Misika is a web applications developer at the Mail&Guardian Online. He has been working there for just under 3 years now but has been playing around with web applications for more years than that.

A student at heart and always looking to le... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Peter Church is the author of the edgy thriller Dark Video, published by Struik in South Africa 2008 and New Holland in Australia 2009. He is a proud supporter of South African sport, especially the Proteas and Springboks. His earliest sporting memor... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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“…one of (the) most prolific and controversial writers… his views have elicited scores of letters… strength in Setumo’s writing is that he is able to initiate new issues or cast a fresh light on existing ones.” – Peter Malherbe (Editor ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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On our Reader Blog, we invite Sports Leader readers to submit one-off contributions to share their opinions on sport, the business of sport, the politics behind sport or any other field of interest.

If you'd like to contribute, first read our guid... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Mike Trapido is a specialist criminal attorney, journalist and political commentator.

He has written sports columns for the Derby Evening Telegraph (5 years), SASoccer365 and articles for English and South African sports sites.

Besides all Sou... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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The award winning Luxolo “Lux” Mantambo is one of the leading sports writers in the country.

He is an avid sport fan, whose love for soccer, cricket, boxing and cricket dates back to his roots growing up in the former Transkei. He started his ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Gavin Varejes is the president and founder of the South African Rugby Legends Association, and Group Chief Executive Officer at Richmark Holdings.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Lungani Zama is a sports writer at The Witness daily newspaper in Pietermaritzburg, writing mainly on local and international cricket.

He brings an alternative perspective to the English Premier League, and having spent three years in Mancheste... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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John Allan is currently the CEO of SARLA. He has had a long and prosperous rugby career, and it looks set to continue that way. He has played rugby for Glenwood High School’s 1st XV, Captained Glenwood Old Boys 1st XV and Natal Provincial 1st XV an... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Poen de Villiers was a sports and news journalist for more than 30 years on daily publications including The Friend (Bloemfontein); Rand Daily Mail and The Citizen. This included 12 years as a sports journalist and sports editor at The Friend. He co... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Richard Calland is a political analyst and constitutional lawyer, as well as a columnist for the Mail & Guardian -- Contretemps has appeared regularly since 2001. He jointly runs a niche film production company, 3PLAY Productions, which focuses o... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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A scholar and a gentleman, Shaun Oakes has many passions in life - including rugby, soccer and peeing in the shower.

Although mediocre at virtually every sport he has played, Oakes is nonetheless a passionate writer, and regularly shares his uniq... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Craig Urquhart is a former Fifa World Cup media officer. He runs Project2010, a 24/7 news portal of South Africa's preparations for the 2010 World Cup. ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Phathisani Moyo is the Mail & Guardian sports editor. He realised that we can't all take to the field and opted to make use of his expertise in the world of sport through the pen. Phathisani has been a sports journalist for more than 10 years, wo... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya is an Orlando Pirates supporter who earns a living as an associate editor/sports editor for the Mail & Guardian. He has never made promises that his love affair with the Buccaneers will not affect his professional judgement... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Kerryn Krige is a wannabe adventurer and outdoor enthusiast. She tries her hand at adventure racing and mountain biking, paddling and orienteering.

Kerryn first discovered the Great Outdoors living in Scotland where she explored the country on he... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Thabani Mkhize is the former sports editor of University of KwaZulu Natal official student publication, NUX. He is a regular contributor to the national student newspaper Campus Times specialising in news, sports and opinions. He is currently comple... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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James is a football-mad mlungu, supporting Arsenal, the Buccaneers and ABU. At present, he is tearing up the turf as an attacker-cum-defender of the feared Dirty Sanchez Saturday Football Kick-About team (recruitment now open) before his perennially... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Roger Horrocks is a freelance photographer specialising in environmental, human adventure and and natural history imagery for news, editorial, advertising and stock. Roger has contributed imagery and articles to Men's Health, GQ and the French Marie ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Keith is a journalist at the Mail & Guardian Online and is, among other things, appreciative of sport... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Steve is based in the North of Spain, though is a patriotic South African sports fan and whose blood is African. He spends his weekdays pretending to be working but really contemplating the answers to some of lifes most important questions such as: W... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Percy Zvomuya is a reporter at the Mail & Guardian. His interests are Africa, books and football, with his favourite teams being Arsenal, AC Milan and Orlando Pirates.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ingrid Weber is currently living and working in Colorado, US. It's been a tremendous shift in mindset, activities, understanding of sports, and pronunciation of "a bottle of water, please". She is constantly pestering colleagues and friends for exp... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Jon Gericke has been a sports broadcaster for 10 years on SAfm and has made the move to television to be a sports editor on E-News Channel. Jon has won the SAB Sports Journalist of the Year's Best Radio Presenter and has been nominated every year sim... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Tudor Caradoc-Davies could have been a contender. Actually that’s a lie. He either fought with the coach, ate the half time naartjies or wasn’t good enough. Usually the latter. Such is sporting life.

Though he’s now content with a sporadic ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Thapelo Moloantoa is Editor of the Premier Soccer League's (PSL) official website.

He is a soccer nut to the bone.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Sello S Alcock is the journalist formerly known as Sello Selebi who is undergoing a transformation after being heavily teased about sharing a name and surname with police National Commissioner Jacob. He maintains that Don Jackie is an acquaintance he... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Peter de Villiers is the coach of South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks.

He has also coached the SA U19 team – 1998 & 1999 (SA finished 3rd in 1999 at world championships), SA U21 – 2004, 2005 & 2006 (3rd in '04, winners i... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Craig is absolutely sports mad, it’s his passion, along with writing, and it has been so for as long as he can remember. He has done a lot of sports writing for the Sunday Tribune newspaper, over 30 articles published by them over the last year on ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Hans Vonk, born 30 Jan 1970 in Alberton, SA. Professional soccer player since 1988 for RKC-Waalwijk, S.C. Heerenveen, Ajax-Amsterdam (Holland) and Ajax-Cape Town. 43 caps for Bafana Bafana.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Philippe Gradidge is a biokinetics and sport science lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests include performance-enhancing drug abuse in adolescents and physical activity as a treatment for chronic diseases.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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