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The Curse of 6000

By 6000 | 6000 | July 5, 2011

On Friday last, over chocolate chip muffins and a decent cup of coffee at work, we reviewed the newspapers and jokingly made predictions for the rugby and various other sporting events over the weekend. One of those “various other sporting events” was the Vodacom Durban July, which (for those not in the know) is a horse [...]

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Capetonian woman continually surprised by events

By 6000 | 6000 | June 30, 2011

News just in: Capetonian Margaret Wilson (61) of Diep River, has admitted to being “almost permanently bewildered” by what she describes as “a continuous stream of surprising events” which she claims are plaguing her life. Yesterday, my son-in-law asked if I had registered the card in my cellphone. I asked him why I needed to [...]

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That match at Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2010

It was the biggie. The North/South derby match. The one that everyone had been talking about even more since they realised that this season, it might actually make some meaningful difference to the final standings of the Super 14 table. We parked the kids with a handy Mother-in-Law, I dosed myself up with MedLemon and Corenza [...]

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On fielding weakened teams

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2010

The MASSIVE match this coming weekend is the MASSIVE clash between MASSIVE rivals, the Stormers of Cape Town and the Bulls of Pretoria in the Super 14 rugby tournament. And there’s a MASSIVE amount at stake, with the Stormers looking for a lucrative (and potentially winnable) home semi-final, which they will get if they win this game. [...]

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Doubling up

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2010

After the huge success of the opening football match at the Cape Town Stadium, the next test comes tomorrow when the crowd limit is doubled from the 20,000 that watched the football to 40,000 for the Stormers v Boland rugby clash. And while they are testing the stadium for World Cup readiness, I am going to [...]

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