How Nelson Mandela and Mohammad Ali, filled with mutual admiration, looked to bring reconciliation through boxing in particular and sport in general.
4 March 2021MOHAMMAD ALI AND NELSON MANDELA: THEIR PASSION FOR BOXING AND HUMANITY.
MOHAMMAD ALI AND NELSON MANDELA: THEIR PASSION FOR BOXING AND HUMANITY.
Originally published inThe Times, Tuesday July 08, 1986. As at Rome’s Colosseum, Wimbledon’s centre court salutes only those of its gladiators who survive and conquer in their final encounters.A few All-England finalists return, hardened by past battles, andemerge triumphant. Most, though, receive an imperial thumbs-down andare doomed to oblivion in the history of tennis. Ivan Lendl […]
South Africa’s cricket team, due to start a series of six limited-over matches against England later this week, have decided not to take a knee before any of these matches. A team decision was made that it’s ‘not something we need continue to do’, according to its coach Mark Boucher, a near-mythical top performer for […]
The controllers of the once-racially-segregated Augusta fairways are leaning over backwards to portray a new image. Once a bastion of racial bigotry, the club that hosts the US Masters is about to give an elderly black golfer a very special honour. And the golfing rule-makers are about to address another ill: they’re upset that most […]
As the world of sport resumes its greatest events after the Covid pandemic’s lockdowns, the most prestigious and quirky tournament in the Golfing World is currently underway – seven months later than usual: the US Masters at the Augusta National club in Georgia, USA. In golf, it seems, there’s a lot at steak! Great golfers […]
Women golfers are to take part in the richest week in female golfing history.
AB De Villiers is showing he is at least South Africa’s second-best batsman – as well as being a fine fielder and wicket-keeper. Despite a long absence from international and most local cricket, he’s been performing very well in recent weeks in the most important (and most lucrative) forum of the very short game: the […]
By Paul Martin and Anne Casimir in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy.
By Paul Martin. The current South African president Cyril Ramaposa wore the Number 6 Springbok jersey and embraced captain Siya Kolisi as the Springboks lifted the World Cup trophy last weekend.
How Nelson Mandela looked to bring unity through sport