by Tammi | Mar 24, 2025 | Latest Writing
Picture: Winning connections celebrate victory in this year’s L’Ormarins King’s Plate. (Picture: Wayne Marks). Gary Lemke has won the LKP Writers’ Award for the second time. WHEN PLANETS ALIGN This is what unbridled joy looks, feels, and sounds like. And on days like...
by Gary Lemke | Nov 11, 2024 | Latest Writing
Michelle Rix cuts a confident figure as she stares into the camera, speaking to Brandon Bailey who is interviewing her about her upcoming runners for Cape Racing’s Perfectly Placed segment. She’s at home in her surroundings, her 30 horses back in their boxes after...
by Tammi | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour Paralympics 24
The Paralympic logo is painted on her left ring fingernail, and on her left wrist is a black band with an inscription in capital letters: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”. On her right ring fingernail the South African flag is painted. She...
by Tammi | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour Paralympics 24
The makeshift workshop and interview room is actually a space at the end of a corridor in the Paralympic village. Rohan Kennedy is assembling Kirsty Weir’s competition bike and this is a good time to have a chat with the para-triathlete. I ask her to wait a minute so...
by Tammi | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour Paralympics 24
Alani Ferreira had her fingernails painted yellow before arriving at her third Paralympics. “It’s my favourite colour,” she says, as she taps her smartphone. Her screensaver pops up and she turns it to show me. “He’s the love of my life.” And it’s understandable why....
by Tammi | Oct 1, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour Paralympics 24
More than an hour after having the Paralympic gold medal placed around her neck, Simone Kruger was still doing interviews and posing for selfies. Standing on the concourse of the Stade de France stadium, she had already postponed a scheduled MRI scan and by her own...
