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Eric Hector pioneered senior schools cross country athletics

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS RICHARD Rive, together with Harry Hendricks, played a pivotal role in providing athletics to thousands of...

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How luck benefitted Sinton in coach MacKay

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THIS is the final chapter of a two-part series about former athletics coach, the 83-year-old Dennis...

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Joshua and MacKay masterminded first inter-house athletics meeting

By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE originators of the first inter-house schools’ athletics meeting affiliated to the Western Province Senior Schools...

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Twelve times SA sprint champion Lewis made it look easy

EDMUND Lewis was without a shadow of a doubt one of South Africa’s all-time great sprinters. Few would argue against...

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Sam de Wet reigned supreme in the distance races

EVEN after 50 years, the name Sam de Wet still makes many athletics followers sit up and take notice of...

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SASSSA sprint champion Benjamin steps up and wins SA senior men’s 800m title

BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS HE was the schoolboy South African under 19 sprint champion in 1968 and the South African...

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