Author: Larson Thebe
Claudine Storbeck, founder and director of the Wits Centre for Deaf Studies at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, explains what the move could – and should – mean for Deaf education in the country. What is the educational environment today for Deaf learners in South Africa? There are 43 schools for the Deaf across the country. Of these, 38 use South African Sign Language (SASL) as the language of teaching and learning. The aim is to ensure that the complete academic curriculum is taught. However, the anecdotal feedback we get from teachers of the Deaf suggests that they are…
Flyhalf Ruan Pienaar rolled back the years, kicking 10 points to help the Cheetahs clinch a pulsating Currie Cup final against the defending champion Pumas at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday night. Leading 18-11 at half time, the Cheetahs dug deep in the second half to repel a spirited Pumas fightback, holding on for a 25-17 win to claim their first Currie Cup title since 2019. The result marks the seventh time Free State have been crowned champions in the competition’s history. It was a tight first half as both teams manoeuvered for a territorial advantage. Pienaar and…
Black Leopards have announced that the club will once again compete in the Motsepe Foundation Championship (MFC) after successfully buying the status of All Stars FC. Lidoda Duvha as they are affectionately known, were relegated to the ABC Motsepe League after finishing bottom on the MFC log standings, at the end of the 2022-23 season alongside Tshakuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) FC. Following their drop from the MFC Lidoda Duvha would’ve played outside the professional ranks for the first time in the PSL era. During a press conference held on Friday, Leopards confirmed that the transaction has gone through, and everything has been…
On Friday it was announced that the Titanic-bound submersible that went missing on Sunday with five people on board suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing everyone on board, US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said Thursday. A remotely operated vehicle found the tail cone of the Titan about 1,600 feet away from the bow of the shipwreck, he said. Search and rescue crews remotely operating an underwater vehicle had discovered debris near the Titanic earlier Thursday, the day the submersible was expected to run out of oxygen. The debris was found by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) associated with the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic that…
The five people aboard the submersible that had been missing for days were killed when the small vessel carrying them to the Titanic wreckage site had a “catastrophic implosion,” the Coast Guard said Thursday afternoon. Members of a massive international search effort found a debris field in the general area of the Titanic earlier in the day, and it was confirmed to contain parts of the Titan sub. “The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel,” Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, said in a news conference. The debris was found about 1,600 feet from…
Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has calmed concerns about his fitness as he recovers from a knee injury ahead of this year’s Rugby World Cup. Kolisi is part of the 41-member squad in the Pretoria-based Springbok camp, as the team prepares for the Rugby Championship and World Cup. The Sharks captain went under the knife last month after suffering a knee ligament injury, while in action for the Durban-based side in the final round of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship. This is not the first time that the loose forward is struggling with injury ahead of a World Cup. In 2019…
In recent decades, data from sports researchers revealed an encouraging trend: young girls were participating in sports in greater numbers. But the research also uncovered a big missed opportunity. Girls drop out of sports at “alarming rates,” specifically when they hit puberty. There is one obvious solution that sports retail giant Nike CEO John Donahoe, and many others, think can make a big difference: more female coaches. In the historically male-dominated world of sports, girls and women have always had to fight for their right to compete and to be viewed as competitive athletes. The sexism that has prevented girls from competing…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – who is in Russia as part of a peace-seeking delegation – told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must stop. Ramaphosa laid out the 10 points of the African peace initiative that is seeking agreement on a series of “confidence-building measures” – even as Ukraine last week began a counteroffensive to push back Russian forces. “This war has to have an end… It must be settled through negotiations and through diplomatic means,” said Ramaphosa in St Petersburg on Saturday at the 18th-century Konstantinovsky Palace. He added his delegation, consisting of seven African leaders,…
Excitement is starting to build up in the North West province as the Netball World Cup Trophy is set to arrive in Potchefstroom on Monday 19 June 2023. So far, the trophy has reached different cities and remote areas within other provinces including KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and Free State. North West, the Platinum Province will receive the trophy from the Free State on Monday. The trophy will then go to different districts of North West and the schedule is as follows: Speaking on the excitement of the trophy tour, Netball South Africa President Cecilia Molokwane said: “Let it be…
Former Springbok winger, Aphiwe Dyantyi, is set to make his return to professional rugby following the end of his four-year doping suspension. Dyantyi was banned from rugby in December 2019 after he tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in August of that year. The 28-year-old also failed a doping test during a Springbok camp on the eve of their successful Rugby World Cup campaign in Japan. Following the end of his suspension, Dyantyi has officially signed with the Sharks and the Sharks CEO Eduard Coetzee said they wanted to give Dyantyi a “second chance”. “He was the best wing in the…