by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | From The Archives
February 1990: There is change in the air. South Africans are experiencing a bright new dawn. A month earlier, FW de Klerk announced the end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela was freed from prison after 27 years. The world was watching as South Africans faced change...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | From The Archives
David hasn’t quite slayed Goliath but he has landed a few blows which have shaken up the established order at these Commonwealth Games. The men’s hockey team will see Monday’s bronze medal showdown against England as a further opportunity to bloody the nose of a...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | Latest Writing
Behind the main structure of the 21 000-capacity Silver Stadium, which is home to Malawi Premier Division football club Silver Strikers, is a netball court, and next to that a basketball court. It was between these two courts that Tayra Zonn was sitting on the floor...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | Latest Writing
By GARY LEMKE in Lilongwe Judo is one of those “minor” codes that doesn’t get much airtime in a country with a fixation on the “Big 3” of football, rugby and cricket. As a sport it struggles to compete in the media space and public consciousness and that’s not going...
by Gary Lemke | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
When they get around to updating the first page of South African sporting greats there surely must be room for Akani Simbine’s name. For the longest time he’s been the fastest man in Africa, the fastest in the Commonwealth. Twice he’s finished in the top five in the...
