BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS EACH generation of athletes would call their era the ‘golden period’ of athletics. The 1960’s...
By CLEMENT DU PLESSIS HAVING interviewed many of the unsung heroes of our time in athletics, I have come across...
By Mark Jacobs WHY the debate about Coloured or Not Coloured? This surely demeans the achievement of Wayde van Niekerk...
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS THE story of Shawn Abrahams, a young man who shot to prominence from the dusty streets...
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS “NO man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent,...
PICKING up the shot for the first time at high school, Gawa Moyce went on to become a household name...
BY CLEMENT DU PLESSIS JANTJIE Marthinus rose above countless obstacles to become an unparalleled nine times senior men’s 800m champion....
O’NEIL SIMPSON (September) of Boland was a highly talented middle-distance athlete. An athlete short in stature, he held the South African...
THE newspaper clipping bears out some of the top achievers during the 1980s. Top left, Jantjie Marthinus, Harold Adams tucked in...
IF the 1983 athletics season was the start of great beginnings, 1984 proved just that . . . talent galore...