Adam Wakefield

The cricket season hasn’t started as well as Gary Kirsten would have hoped. Rusty South Africa were outplayed by Australia at Newlands, and while I belong to the school of thought that doesn’t care about Twenty20, there are many others who do. The Proteas would have had another opportunity to put their first mark in […]

South Africa now knows how Wales felt at the beginning of this Rugby World Cup. The Springboks scarcely deserved to beat the Dragons, and after watching Sunday’s quarter-final, the Wallabies didn’t deserve a place in the semi-finals. They were “under the pump” as they like to say Down Under for the duration of the match […]

SuperSport is purportedly one of the best and largest sports broadcasters in the world. Seven channels, slick production value, a 24-hour news channel no longer reliant on foreign broadcasters and an infrastructure as big as any other major sports broadcaster out there. It is, like SAB-Miller, a South African company that has exceeded the borders […]

I’m currently in Cape Town, and after getting through the frequent stop and goes along the N1, the town of Colesburg (home of an awesome Wimpy breakfast and many a speed camera) was where I and a friend spent the night. Whenever travelling through the Free State, the sheer expanse and flatness of the Highveld […]

Gary Kirsten’s plans for the coming international cricket season have been soiled somewhat by injury. AB de Villiers, the newly minted ODI and T20 skipper, picked up a hand injury during a practice session with the Royal Challengers Bangalore and will be out of action for between four to six weeks after undergoing surgery. That […]

In Wednesday morning’s edition of The Star, it was reported that “rugby, followed by power lifting and boxing, were the most doped-out sports in South Africa last year”. Between April last year and March this year, the SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport stated in its annual report that doping has increased by 178% with anabolic […]

The Proteas are gearing up for a busy summer with Australia and Sri Lanka visiting these shores. Gary Kirsten and his new coaching staff have kept a low profile as they settle into their new positions, which is in far contrast to the suits who live in the realm of corporate governance on Corlett Drive […]

Don’t let the Springbok spin-machine or scribes who don’t have the option to piss in the pot tell you otherwise: the Springboks didn’t deserve to beat Wales as the Welsh outplayed South Africa. They dominated every facet of the game, except on the scoreboard, and were it not for a missed drop goal and penalty, […]

I awoke this morning to find out that Darren Scott has reportedly resigned from both SuperSport and Jacaranda 94.2 after it was reported that he referred to a colleague as a k*****. I don’t know Scott personally at all but have come to respect him as I’m sure many have over the years as a […]

In the fourth season of the American political drama The West Wing, Martin Sheen’s President Bartlet is preparing for the presidential debate against James Brolin’s Governor Ritchie. Apart from Brolin’s southern accent and immaculate white hair, an aspect of the governor’s strategy that Bartlet’s staff is concerned about is that of lowering expectations. The governor […]

The Gini coefficient was developed in 1912 by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini as a means of measuring inequality. Its application is diverse but its most common use is as a means of showing inequality of income within the borders of a nation state. Simply put, it’s a measure of the haves and the […]

The Springboks received a healthy dose of confidence after winning their last Tri-Nations fixture against a weakened All Blacks in Port Elizabeth. Having shaken off the evident rust against Australia the week before, South Africa went back to what they know best by playing it tight and using Morne Steyn’s boot to keep the scoreboard […]