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A journalist by trade, Adam takes an interest in sports, politics, communication and media trends.

Having lived in Cape Town and Melbourne, Adam is back in Johannesburg, his home town.

The views expressed are his own.

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Sport is an absolute passion, schools sport, sports management and the high performance science. I host the Breakfast show on 101.9ChaiFM and a the only School sports radio show in SA.... 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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Twitter: @XylonVE
Xylon takes his cycling very seriously. He only trains once a week then rests for six days because he believes rest and recovery is a very important part of training. He has had a very successful career and has spent time making co... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Mike Trapido is a criminal attorney and publicist having also worked as an editor and journalist. He was born in Johannesburg and attended HA Jack and Highlands North High Schools. He married Robyn in 1984 (Mrs Traps, aka "the government") and has th... 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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Bonga Ntshingila is an 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 realised tha... 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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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 dark thriller, Bitter Pill published in August this year.

He is a proud supporter of South African sport, especially the Proteas and Springboks. His earliest sporting memory is listening to the muddy 1970 Spring... 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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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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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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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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Roger Horrocks is a documentary photographer based in Cape Town, South Africa, specialising in environmental and travel features. Roger co-produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary “Into the Dragon’s Lair” and has work published i... 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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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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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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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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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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Sreeram Ramachandran is a writer who runs the cricket website HoldingWilley.com. He, like the site he runs, is perennially looking to find alternative, unexplored and frequently disturbing perspectives on various aspects of cricket and for platforms ... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Ezrom Serame Mokgakala is a South African who has been living in Toronto, Canada for the last 25 years. He is interested in Sports in general and especially Soccer which is a relatively new sport in Canada. Hi is also a fan of the Toronto Football Cl... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Over-rated, over-weight ex captain of England who now spends all his time with a whole host of other ex-players on www.rucku.com... 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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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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Dylan Rogers is a freelance journalist and television producer. A Rhodes University journalism graduate, he has spent 10 years in television sports news, with his time divided between the SABC, ETV and international sports news agency SNTV in London.... read more | RSS subscribe to RSS
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Grant Wilkins trained as a journalist at Rhodes University but soon succumbed to the glamour of television. He is now a partner at a production company specialising in sports promotions.... 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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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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Gavin Moffat is an accidental specialist in the field of communication and public relations and has been “practising” for the past 20 years. He started in a small agency in the entertainment space and later founded eCommunications with his busine... 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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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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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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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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Mangaliso Sibanyoni was born and still lives in Soweto. He usually tells people that he was born at the terraces because his father was a sports fanatic – chairman of the Moroka Swallows FC Supporters Club and a member of the defunct Khazamula Box... 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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Justin is currently editor of the Essential Sports service at Cape Town-based agency Sunday Media. After completing his media and politics degree at UCT, this writer's work has been syndicated online to four continents, via the likes of Fox Sports, V... 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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