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PATRICK LEVEY A total of 62 runners, walkers, and visitors braved wet and muddy conditions over the weekend to complete the Sunrise-on-Sea parkrun along its new Rainbow Seedlings route. The challenging 5km track, which combined elements…
CAROL WATHEN A new starting point at Rainbow Seedlings drew 115 parkrunners and parkwalkers for the first event on the revised route of the Sunrise-on-Sea parkrun. The great turnout made the first event at Rainbow Seedlings a memorable…
VEERAN NAIDOO The courts have been quiet, the contenders have been waiting, and now the Royal Padel League returns, and the stakes have never been higher. Week 7 may have been washed away, but the battle for supremacy hasn’t. Once again,…
Dramatic comebacks, pressure-filed tiebreaks thrill fans VEERAN NAIDOO The Royal Padel League delivered another night of breathtaking matches at Old Boys Club. There were dramatic comebacks and two matches that had spectators on the edge…
Epic three-set thriller sends spectators to their feet as the Royal Padel League Over-40s competition reaches another level. Round four of the Royal Padel League Over-40s competition delivered everything that makes padel so exciting, big…
LIAM WEIMERS The 1st East London Company Boys’ Brigade celebrated 55 years of service, leadership and Christian fellowship during a weekend of festivities held in Parkside recently. Established in 1971 with the assistance of the 1st Port…
As we enter August and mark the end of Nelson Mandela Month, we are left in awe of the greatest fight for hope that our country has ever seen. During those 27 years of imprisonment — uncertain if he would ever see his family or if freedom…
A total of 93 people ran, jogged and walked the course of at this week’s Kidds Beach parkrun, with five participants taking part for the first time and nine recording new personal bests. Representatives from eight different clubs joined…
BOB NORRIS The 52nd Buffalo Marathon recorded a sound 846 entries — boosted by 819 in the half marathon and close to 800 in the SAPS 10km, all run concurrently in East London on Sunday. The results were mixed, with a good sub-two-hour-20…
LISA BECKER For the past five years, one grade 7 teacher at Stirling Primary has quietly been shaping hearts as much as young minds. Donne’ Cadle is the driving force behind the school’s Jars of Hope initiative, which is feeding thousands…
DELORIS KOAN I thought it would never come, but the words floating on the south-easterly breeze shocked me. Big Nev Wilkins, enforcer of us surf rats in the ‘70s, and race director of the historic 52nd running of the Discovery Surfers’…
BOB NORRIS The 2026 Discovery Surfers Challenge may well go down as one of the most successful of the 51 events held since the inaugural run of 26 participants in 1975. It was the first non-conformist race of all time and won by a man who…
BOB NORRIS There have been few wet weather Surfers challenge races down the years and the only thing that is certain for the 51st running of the Discovery Surfers Challenge from Kwelera Mouth to Nahoon Beach on Saturday is that there will…
Few books have pierced the armour of apartheid secrecy as powerfully as Permanent Removal: Who Killed the Cradock Four? The acclaimed work by former high court judge, human-rights lawyer and award-winning author Chris Nicholson. More than…
Maintenance. It’s the lightning rod of all that is good these days — it towers above the dark, grimy clouds of tender corruption. Abandonment. One look at any government, public building, or space or institution, and if it looks forlorn,…
