Posted on March 08, 2024
Chad-Lee Valentine might not be the tallest of players, but what he lacks in size, he makes up with guts and tenacity. When he dons the TuksRugby number-9 jersey, he is the proverbial general whose aim is to get his team close to the try line so they can score. There is nothing he likes more than...
Posted on March 05, 2024
Gandhi Jafta is living the words of the famous poem by Robert Frost, choosing to travel the path less travelled. "As in the poem, I chose the 'path less travelled' in academia. It has led me to exciting discoveries. But unlike the poem, my journey doesn't end there. I am also carving a path...
Posted on March 04, 2024
Jenny van Dyk, the "Coach with the Midas Touch", is now up to her new challenge after she is appointed the new SPAR Proteas head coach. When announcing that Van Dyk is the new national head coach, Cecilia Molokwane (Netball South Africa President) said, "Jenny has won everything under the sun. It...
Posted on March 01, 2024
A few years back, a coach suggested that Tayla Jonker stop "playing around" in the swimming pool and be more dedicated when training. The BSc Quantity Surveying student at UP-Tuks took the words to heart. She has not regretted it. Last month, the 19-year-old set a new South African record in...
Posted on February 29, 2024
One of the most fearsome sights during a rugby game is to have a 1.92-metre tall player weighing 125 kilograms running at you at full speed with the ball in hand. If you don't tackle, he will score. This scenario could play out tomorrow afternoon when Tuks clashes against the Cape Peninsula...
Posted on February 28, 2024
Thabiso Mokoena can claim to have been there, done that, and gotten the t-shirt to prove it - playing football at the highest level. The 31-year-old has played for SuperSport United and the Black Leopards. For the last three years, he has been at AmaTuks. Many might perceive playing in the...
Posted on February 26, 2024
The TuksRugby team was off to a good start in the 2024 FNB Varsity Shield campaign, beating the University of Fort Hare 36-0 on Friday, February 23, in Alice. The result was never in doubt. Keane Galant scored Tuks's first of five tries in the ninth minute. Credit should go to Fort Hare's...
Posted on February 23, 2024
Kian du Toit might only be 18, but the biggest mistake older wrestlers could make at next month's African Senior Wrestling Championships in Egypt is to underestimate him. When the youngster steps onto the mats, only one thing matters. That is to get his opponent pinned down for the count. Age...
Posted on February 23, 2024
Satchel Paige, a USA professional baseball pitcher, famously once said, "Never let your head hang down. Never give up, and sit down and grieve. Find another way." It is unlikely that Pieter Coetzé would know who Paige is or even know of the quote. At the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in...
Posted on February 21, 2024
"Operation Restore the Pride" starts on Friday in Alice when Tuks take to the field to play the University of Fort Hare in the 2024 Varsity Shield campaign. Many expect Tuks to be unstoppable in the tournament and that they will be back in the Varsity Cup next year. The TuksRugby co-captain,...
Posted on February 20, 2024
The 2024 instalment of the TuksRace, in collaboration with Bestmed Medical Scheme, painted the streets of Pretoria red and blue on Saturday, 17 February. Runners across the country joined the multi-distance event at the University of Pretoria’s Hillcrest Sports Campus. The bussing ambience...
Posted on February 19, 2024
The African under-20 100-meter hurdles champion Chané Kok's quest to get faster starts as the new season is upon us. She had a brilliant season last year. Apart from winning the African title, she was also the South African under-20 champion and won silver at the senior national championships....
Posted on February 18, 2024
A medal and African and South African records prove that UP-Tuks swimmers performed well at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Coetzé won bronze in the 200-meter backstroke. The way he swam those last 50 metres is what champions are made from. To come back from eighth to...
Posted on February 16, 2024
Tory Earle's love to challenge herself to the limits led to the Midmar Mile victory. For years to come, statistics will show that Tory Earle won the women's Midmar Mile in 2024. But numbers never tell the whole story. Most will not know Earle competed at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha,...
Posted on February 14, 2024
South Africa's national rowing coach, Tiago Loureiro, aims to get four crews to compete at the Paris Olympic Games. As things stand, it is two done and two to go. John Smith and Chris Baxter ensured that a South African crew would compete in the men's pair race at the Games by finishing sixth at...
Posted on February 12, 2024
The UP-Tuks student-athlete, Karabo Mailula will not defend her Bestmed TuksRace 10km title on Saturday as she is off competing at the 2024 FISU World University Championships Cross Country in Oman. The World University Championship Cross Country is one of the oldest FISU Championships. It was...
Posted on February 09, 2024
Amica de Jager may have done enough in the women's 10km open-water swim race at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics in France. She finished 27th, one minute and 12 seconds behind the race winner, Sharon van Rouwendal (Netherlands). De Jager was...
Posted on February 07, 2024
The word "spike" will undoubtedly impact Danilo von Ludwiger's life in 2024 when he is in the hospital or playing beach volleyball. He is a sixth-year MBCHB student at Tuks. It means he spends a lot of his time in a hospital where a patient's temperature can spike at any moment. When it happens,...
Posted on February 05, 2024
The South African 200-meter backstroke champion Hannah Pearse's only goal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is to be faster than last year. She is studying BSc Human Physiology, Genetics, and Psychology at UP-Tuks. If she succeeds, it proves that all the long, hard hours in the...
Posted on February 02, 2024
#TuksSwimming: Pieter Coetzé can medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha. Predicting who might medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is risky because, as everyone knows, races are won through guts and determination, not speculation. But there are always...
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