By: Aneeqa du Plessis As we continue to celebrate women during the month of August, VOC’s News editor and Inside Sport presenter, Feroz Shaik spoke with local public relations officer at Westham United in Mitchells Plain, Sumayah Adams, 60, who has used sport as a weapon against a tough upbringing. “I played a variety of sports, and this introduced me to a new world, it was an outlet that I […]
Amid boisterous chants to send off a football legend who had departed too soon, Wilson Cisnero leaned against a brightly painted brick building that had a simple, small sign he had pasted on it. “God is with God,” he wrote, punctuated with the number 10. The 25-year-old had cycled two kilometres (1.2 miles) to the famed Buenos Aires neighbourhood of La Boca because, like many others, he did not know […]
A Cape Town duo are determined to bring change to the lives of young people from the Western Cape’s impoverished, gang-ridden areas. Friedl Gertse, who was born and raised in Kuils River, about 32km from Cape Town, attended De Kuilen Primary and Sarepta Secondary schools and now manages the digital marketing of a private distance-learning college, but he always knew he was meant to do something more with his life. […]
Green Point traders are seething after trading was suspended for Sunday 5 January 2020 due to a PSL football match. According to the City of Cape Town, a soccer game at the stadium scheduled to start at 15h30 requires trading area (P4) for the purpose of parking. The chairperson of the Cape Town Stadium Market traders, Rasheda Muller said traders are angry, as many have been stocking up with consumables, […]
A security guard was badly beaten, a ball boy and several other spectators injured and millions of rands of damage sustained as angry Kaizer Chiefs fans rioted at the end of the club’s loss in the Nedbank Cup semifinal to Free State Stars on Saturday night. The security guard, who was set upon by a group of hooligans on the pitch at the end of the game, was severely hurt, […]
This weekend kicks-off with the tournament of the year, with local oganisations and media houses taking to the soccer field in a bid to win the Spice Mecca/the Ikhlaas Academia Library Tournament. Two groups of six teams, each playing five players and a goalkeeper, are set to compete for a spot in the semi-finals. Teams of ten are expected to register from 08h15 on Saturday, 25 November 2017, at the […]
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