Posted on February 05, 2025
The Olympic champion, Tatjana Smith, and heroic moments in international swimming have become synonymous, but now she plans to take on a new challenge as a jogger. Next weekend, she will take part in the Sappi TuksRace, a 10-kilometre event. It is a first for her. She has never run 10 km...
Posted on February 03, 2025
On Saturday, 15 February, a day after Valentine's declarations of love, a few thousand runners will take to Pretoria's streets to participate in the Sappi Tuks Race. Running is one of the passions of the Bosman family. Most late afternoons, Sarina jogs with her husband, Carel, and their two...
Posted on January 31, 2025
One that is important to 18-year-old Edrich Rouwerd is precision, meaning you don't make mistakes. He clearly gets it right. The TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksGymnastics Academy graduate achieved six distinctions last year and boasts an overall average of 88%. He obtained more than...
Posted on January 29, 2025
UP-Tuks alumna René Pienaar, the newly elected president of the Tshwane Chess Federation, envisions a brighter future as more children learn to play chess. "Apart from the fact that chess improves your concentration skills, it also teaches you to solve problems. The skills I learnt playing...
Posted on January 27, 2025
The answer to what it takes to make Jonas Ndlovu happy is simple: give him a ball. It could be a cricket or a soccer ball, or let him play goalball. Nothing gets the Tuks Political Science student's adrenaline pumping like the challenge of outsmarting opponents on the field. What is incredible...
Posted on January 22, 2025
An insatiable quest for knowledge and a thirst for discovery have earned Jared Fairweather the title of Top 2 Matriculant of TuksSport High School for 2024. At just 18 years old, Jared achieved an outstanding seven distinctions, boasting an average percentage of 88.57%. He excelled in three...
Posted on January 20, 2025
A hamstring injury is why South African 800m champion Edmund du Plessis must postpone his plans to compete against the stopwatch. This means that the fourth-year medical student at Tuks has to postpone his plans to qualify for the 2025 World Indoor Championships in China. The plan was to start...
Posted on January 15, 2025
Older rugby fans will know who Japie Mulder is; he was, after all, a player of the first Springbok team that won the World Cup at Ellis Park in 1995. 30 years later, another Mulder played for the Boks. Jané Mulder proved that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree when she played for the...
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