Posted on June 10, 2024
Don't miss it because if you do, you will lose. That is the simple principle when competing in trapshooting, but it is easier said than done. Next month, Steyn will compete at the 15th ICTSF World DTL Championships. This festival of DTL shooting will include the European DTL, Home International,...
Posted on June 07, 2024
In 2017, the British rock band 10cc was singing about how they don't like cricket but love it; this sums up how the Dewar brothers, Matt and Alex, feel about hockey at Tuks. A sixth-year MBChB student at UP-Tuks, Matt says playing hockey is a way for him to take a break from academics. Alex...
Posted on June 05, 2024
The first time Snamile Mthembu watched a cricket game on television, she thought it was one of the most boring sports. Everything changed the day it was Mthembu who made desperate dives to stop the ball from going over the ropes. Who, with the bat in hand, is scoring runs? Or as a bowler is...
Posted on June 03, 2024
Edmund du Plessis is pushing to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France. This season, during the South African Senior Track & Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg, he won the 800m running at 1:44.92. It is the second consecutive time that he has won the national senior title. A...
Posted on May 31, 2024
Tlisane Motaung is succeeding. In ten days, AmaTuks will start to battle it out to play in the PSL promotion playoffs. It is the second time in three years that the team will do so. In the 2021/2022 season, Tuks lost in the final against Swallows. Since Motaung took the reigns as AmaTuks head...
Posted on May 30, 2024
The Gauteng Jaguars can claim a unique sports record, which is to have played in every final of the National Netball League. It is difficult to think of another South African team in any sport that can boast of having played ten consecutive finals. The Jaguars have been victorious on six...
Posted on May 29, 2024
If someone had asked Tracey Mthunzi at the start of last year whether she thinks she would ever captain a national rugby team, her answer would have been no. But things changed. The former TuksNetball player is off to France to captain the South African women's student team at the 2024 FISU Rugby...
Posted on May 27, 2024
The South African hopeful Olympian combination John Smith and Chris Baxter missed out by 0.11 seconds on medalling during the 2024 World Cup Rowing II in Lucerne, Switzerland. The men's pair combination based at Tuks finished fourth. With 500 metres to go, they were still in third place. The...
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