Kerryn Krige

The death of Burry Stander is appalling. But what is likely to be more shocking is that it is meaningless. That our current feeling of tragedy, of frustration and anger, our need to insist and see action will quickly fade. Tomorrow it will be another day. By next week Burry will be another death on […]

As the sun rises over a hungover Joburg, a motley collection of Lycra-clad racers are steadily gathering outside one of Joburg’s trendiest pubs. It’s Sunday morning and the latest race in the Kinetic Urban Challenge is starting and finishing on the expansive lawn of Outer Limits in Fourways. Among the sponsor banners of fitness fundi’s […]

By chance I had Leonard Chuene, president of the ASA, keep me company on a long drive to Rustenberg on Wednesday. He was on 702 Talk Radio and it’s the first time I’ve actually heard him speak on this issue. It was sadly very entertaining. He postured, got defensive, kept calling Caster a “little girl”, […]

I have found myself getting increasingly angry over the past few days listening to the debate raging over Caster Semenya. It has taken a nasty, racist turn — cleverly clouding the real issues surrounding Caster: that Athletics South Africa (ASA) should have tested her before she left, that they have proven to not understand the […]

South Africa’s newspapers and websites are filled with the success of young 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya. After years of fairly apathetic athletic achievements, South Africans should be basking in the extraordinary win from this young, relatively unknown runner. But we’re not. A gender test has been called by the International Association of Athletics Federations, […]

Ok. So this has very little to do with sport. Other than my heart rate racing up as if I were sprinting up Table Mountain. But today, stuck in traffic on the Grayston Drive offramp in Sandton, I was passed by a flurry of cars belting up the emergency lane and restricted shoulder. Passing as […]

The highs and lows of life in Joburg, a personal curiosity that kicks in after thirty and probably a little peer pressure (everyone else does, so shouldn’t I?) has led me to explore the Western concept of the shrink. I’m on visit number four and Floppy is starting to get interesting. It’s a bit difficult […]

I often wake up in the morning and wonder about my two lives. During the pay-the-mortgage week I work a nine-to-whenever, tied to my laptop and a series of meetings that remind me of ping pong: we debate the same issues, have wild inspirations and great ideas, but never come to a conclusion. But then […]

My Nokia and I are slowly bonding, as I figure out its quirks and get to grips with its sophisticated technology. I’m even starting to like its pulsing light which bathes everything around it in a warm gentle glow. On Friday we completed a right of passage. Wearing my Polar heart rate monitor my phone […]

Nokia’s Sports Tracker service won the 2009 Best Something Award for IT Genius. So my feelings of frustration have mutated into a deep sense of shame and stupidity. If millions of other people around the world can co-ordinate their phone, get the HR monitor to work and upload their training diaries, why can’t I? But […]

So … The new Nokia still pulses its white light, but it works! I have just sweated and peddled my way through a spinning class, yelling instructions and desperately aware that I cannot cheat as my heart rate monitor is measuring my every beat. I looked dead impressive with my phone strapped to my arm […]

The email took me by surprise: As a high-profile blogger on Sports Leader and as one of SA’s leading athletes, I have been selected by phone giant Nokia to test their super-expensive N79 cell phone. The catch? I have to look after the phone for two months, using the sleek Polar heart-rate monitor and the […]