Sport Light

Let us look at a renewal of rivalries at Old Trafford, a title race flashback at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and a potentially toxic tussle at Goodison Park. Guest: Darryn Mer – An Independent English Premier League soccer analyst

Midrand Rovers Sports Development is a social development organization using sports, academics and the arts to drive social change. Our aim is to make sure all youth in our community are involved in organized programmes, away from substance abuse, crime and teenage pregnancy as well as become useful members of society. Guest: Lebogang Phaka – President of Midrand Rovers Sports development

Widely known for his extreme off-the-beaten-track adventures, ultra-endurance athlete Jamie Marais has launched his first book, Determination, The Autobiography. It’s based on a series of solo ultra-endurance challenges, each of which takes place in a dangerous setting with intensely challenging physical objectives and natural threats including unpredictable weather, high altitude, steep mountain...

With South Africa held in the pestilential grip of COVID-19, Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) agreed to host the SA National Championships for Morabaraba on Saturday, 12 December 2020, at a venue that could accommodate all entries and all the state’s regulations. GUEST: Saudah Bhaimia - South African female gamer

GUEST: Prof Jon Patricios, from Wits Sport and Health (WiSH).

Guest: Fitness trainer and passionate conservationist Sharon Jessop

Former Protea blind cricket player Ernst Conradie and international champion Garreth Slattery will be pulling out all the stops to hold off international campaigners Owen Robertsen from England and American Luke Lin. Last year Slattery captained the Rest of the World Team to victory in the 2019 Vision Cup and tied for second in Japan Open. Guest: Ernst Conradie - SA Blind Open tournament director

It’s been 25 years since SA produced its first IBF heavyweight champion, and that was when charismatic Francois “White Buffalo” Botha defeated Germany’s Axel Schultz for the vacant title. The fight took place today – December 9 – in 1995 in Stuttgart. The country had previously witnessed Gerrie “Bionic Hand” Coetzee write local boxing history by becoming the first ever African to fight for and win...

Brandon Valjalo stepped onto an old board found in the garage belonging to his brother at just 3 years of age. He was on and off his board for the next few years and then began to pursue his passion for skateboarding from the age of 9. For the next few years, Valjalo would take his board everywhere and always look forward to going to local skateparks in his native city, Johannesburg. GUEST: Brando...

Guest: Mike Dunk

GUEST: Ashleigh Moolman Pasio - is a South African professional female road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam CCC Liv. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 16th and in the Women's time trial finishing 24th

Hezekiél Sello Sepeng (born 30 June 1974),[1] is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 (behind Vebjørn Rodal),[2] the 1998 Commonwealth Games (behind Japheth Kimutai) and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999 (behind Wilson Kipketer). He was banned from competition from May 2005 to May 2007 after a positive doping test for na...

Chess is a board game played by millions of people worldwide, including Persons with Disabilities. It is normally played between two players on a chessboard but Multiplayer Chess is available and some Chess boards are available to accommodate 3 or 4 players. Chess is played on a checkered game board that has 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces, including: one king...

Sandboarders also don’t have the luxury of a ski-lift as the dunes continually shift which means they walk up the dunes – a lot. Obviously this leads to legs of steel and therefore much hotter girlfriends than snowboarders. The sport is also one of the most affordable board sports around as all you need is a board and a cool attitude to enjoy a day on the dunes. No flights to find snow or expensiv...

Celebrating women in football we speak to foot ball owner The founder of a local football club, community activist and chairperson of Norwood Women’s Forum Venita Masisi said her passion for community development, youth and women empowerment was the secret behind her success GUEST: Vennita masisi - Norwood young stars deputy chair local football association

Rope skipper masters speed and stunts When Mkhululi Gosa (20) of Khayelitsha in the Western Cape was just seven years old, he used to play with his peers at a community hall. One day he saw a group of guys practising rope skipping outside the hall and was intrigued. He was invited to join in and today he is a world champion of the little-known sporting code. Guest: Malusi Tumtumana - fliying SA's...

On Tuesday morning, 1 December 2020, Grant Lottering will depart from Nottingham Road, KwaZulu-Natal, on a non-stop solo ride through the Eastern and Western Cape to finish on Sunday, 6 December in the Ceres Valley, Wellington. He will have to ride day and night, climbing 22 300m and covering a total distance of 2 000km, in just 100 hours. Guest: The challenge miracle cyclist and Laureus Sport for...

When the 2020 World Under 20 Athletics Championships were postponed until next year due to the global pandemic, South African sprinter and hurdler Antoinette van der Merwe thought she had missed the chance to prove herself against the world’s best junior athletes in her last year of eligibility. Guest: South African sprinter and 200 hurdler, Antoinette van der Merwe

GolfRSA Elite Squad Member, Kaiyuree Moodley, is currently preparing to leave South Africa to fulfil her dreams of playing the sport in the United States of America. In 2019, Moodley matriculated from Crawford College Lonehill and was due to take up a scholarship at the University of South Carolina in August this year, but the nationwide lockdown put paid to her plans. Guest: GolfRSA Elite Squad M...

Friedl Gertse, the Founder of Greater Purpose Outreach and co-founder of the Young Tornado Warriors Football Club is on a mission to bring change to Manenberg by bridging the gap between sport and education. His vision is simple, empower the community to unite together to tackle the social problems they face. GUEST: Friedl Gertse, the Founder of Greater Purpose Outreach.

Solwethu Gonya (born 06 October 1996) nicknamed The Pro is from South Africa born Eastern Cape in Dutywa. He did his primary grades in a small village called Chizele in Dutywa. After grade 9 I moved to Western Cape where I started high school in Hermanus, Qhayiya Sec. I was always involved in sport because I grew up in a rural area where there was a lot of crime and social ills. I found sport as o...

Months of strategising, planning and training all formed part of helping Red Bull Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) athlete Thomas van Tonder achieve his gargantuan goal of a 90m rope climb between one of Joburg’s most iconic landmarks, the Soweto Towers. Guest: Red Bull Obstacle Course Racing (OCR) athlete Thomas van Tonder

Guest: Philani Simamane – Rugby player

GUEST: Darryn Mer – English Premier League Independent Analyst

Guest: Dr. Laurie Rauch - Cape Town Neurobiologist of Exercise and Sports Medicine, Dr. Laurie Rauch (54) has self-published a revolutionary new book entitled, “KEEPING CALM: How to Master your Brain Reward System to Optimise your Health, Wellbeing and Performance” that provides new insight into the heart-mind connection and supports holistic solutions to managing stress and living in a post-COVID...