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Issue 3

Development Karate Sharks Tournament

Monthly interviews with sports personalities

Keegan Daniels

Addington Karate Club hosted a friendly development tournament between seven clubs from four different styles at Addington Primary School on the 29 July 2006. The tournament was organised by members of the Shellcross Shotokan Karatedo South Africa Club and the Shito Ryu Addington Beach Club. There were representatives from Funakoshu Karate - Newcastle; Hayashi Ha Shitoryu - Kai - Pinetown; Shito - Ryu South Coast - Addington Beach; Shito - Ryu South Coast - Port Shepstone; Shotokan Karatedo South Africa - Durban North; Shotokan Karatedo South Africa Shellcross; Shotokan Karatedo South Africa - Tongaat. Honoured guests included Shihan Cas Pretorius (Head of Shito-Ryu South Coast) with his wife Sensei Elsie and Shihan Peter Shamier (Kofukan Shukokai Karate) and his wife Sensei Hazel The aim of the tournament was to encourage the younger students to participate and to teach them how a tournament runs. Furthermore, friendship between students from other clubs and styles was encouraged as these students were now in the same team. Students were encouraged to shout for their for their team mates who were from different clubs. All participants in the tournament received a colour participation certificate. and the students in the teams who came first, second and third were each rewwarded wirh Gold, Silver or Bronze medals. Denric Verster opened the Addington Karate Club at the Addington Primary School in 2001. He was introduced to Karate at the age of six and has been training Buduryu style for the past twenty-eight years with Sensei Cas Pretorius. He achieved his Junior Black Belt when he was fourteen and his Senior Black Belt in 1991. In 1993 Denric obtained Northern Transvaal and SA Police colours and represented Keegan playing for Sharks against Free State Cheetahs South Africa in Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland in the national team. His Karate Club currently has eighty students aged from five years old to seventy one! Denric;s passion is watching the charBrad Morgan acter growth in his students as they build friendship and respect with one another. FOOTBALL - or soccer, as we call it - is hosting the event. To enquire about joining the club phone the most widely played sport in South South Africa was announced as host of Denric on 031-325 4572 Africa, with its traditional support base in the 2010 Fifa World Cup in May 2004. The the black community. For many South decision meant the Rainbow Nation would Africans the country’s proudest sporting become the first African hosts of soccer’s are followed with the same passion as in moment came when we won the Africa Cup showpiece event. many other countries, by paint-daubed, of Nations on home turf in 1996 - having At the 2004 African Cup of Nations, costumed, whistling and cheering fans. failed even to qualify for the previous cup. South Africa opened with a two-nil win over Mercifully, the country has been spared Soccer is intensely followed, and the Benin, but then slipped to a four-nil the spectre of football hooliganism. quality of the local game keeps improving thrashing at the hands of Nigeria. A one-all Soccer was the first of the country’s - as demonstrated by the increasing draw against Morocco meant Bafana three major sports - the other two being number of South African players-in-exile Bafana missed out on the quarterfinals. cricket and rugby - to fully integrate. Today among the glamorous European clubs. Bafana Bafana continued to slip down there is a good mix of players in the The national football team, Bafana the world rankings in 2005, and in 2006 Premier Soccer League, the national team Bafana - “The Boys” - may not have they turned in a poor performance at the and other less glamorous sides. progressed beyond the first round of the African Cup of Nations, losing all three of There’s probably no quicker way to 2002 World Cup, but five goals, one win, their first round matches without scoring a “break the ice” with the South African on one draw and a 3-2 thriller against Spain single goal. the street than to demonstrate some did more than erase the disappointment of But South African age-group soccer has knowledge of local soccer. To help you the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali - it shown itself to be strong, as the national improve your conversational skills,we’ll seemed to confirm South Africa’s arrival as under-12 team won the Danone Nations bring you a crash course on the country’s a force in world football. Cup tournament, beating Poland two-nil in most important teams and competitions Unfortunately, that inspiring the final in Paris. in the next Snail Mail. performance has shown itself to be a false In another boost, Ace Ntsoelengoe was Vote for your favourite DURBAN dawn, with Bafana failing to qualify for the elected to the US National Soccer Hall of football team SMS the word SOCCER 2006 Fifa World Cup. Whatever their Fame. followed by your favourite team to performance, they will take part in the 2010 The domestic game 34509 tournament - they receive an automatic Local teams, organised in a national SMS charged at R2 qualification, because South Africa is league plus a plethora of knock-out cups, Krige for his tenacity on the field. 1 I see you were born in Humansdorp He’s a gutsy player. did you surf a lot at J-Bay when you were growing up? And what other 4 What quality do you possess that sports, if any, do you play? ensures your selection ahead of I play cricket as well. I played for bigger loose forwards? Border when I was at school. I There are a lot of talented players. don’t surf. I have never surfed, I I would say my contribution is I am scared of the ocean going variety bring a great deal of energy and a of sharks! good feeling for the game to the position. 2 What made you choose the Sharks? Or did they choose you? I applied to the Sharks Academy 5 Realistically, what are your goals concerning your rugby career, and was accepted. I wanted to bearing in mind the many good loose attend the Academy as I could study forwards we have in this country. and play rugby at the same time, I am currently concentrating on how combine the two. I enrolled for I can contribute to the ongoing the ETA (Exercise Teachers success of the Sharks. I would Academy) course offered together like the Sharks to win this year’s with the Academy’s rugby course Currie Cup and my personal goal for next year is to be considered 3 Who was your Springbok rugby hero for the team’s Super14 as a schoolboy? campaign. My Springbok rugby hero is Corne

Soccer in South Africa

RESULTS MALES OPEN DIVISION KATA 1st Shewin Hooblal - Tongaat 2nd Harkoo Yushiv - Shellcross 3rd Mags Murages - Tongaat

KUMITE 1st Mags Murages - Tongaat 2nd Ramdes Naveeth - Shellcross 3rd Sherwin Hooblal - Tongaat FEMALES OPEN DIVISION KATA 1st Yolande van der Sant - Port Shepstone 2nd L Mundell - Port Shepstone 3rd Ariel van der Merwe - Addington KUMITE 1st L Mundell - Port Shepstone 2nd Yolande van der Sant - Port Shepstone 3rd Selepe Fovah - Pinetown Addington Karate Academy was awarded the Habibiya Floating Trophy for the overall winners. Denric Verster