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DAVID ISAACSON | It’s all fun and Games until money comes into it

SA’s disappointing performance in Birmingham is a result of our long legacy of lack of investment in our sportspeople

09 August 2022 - 20:02

I woke up in a flat panic. It was at the tail-end of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and Thabo Mbeki, then deputy president, was paying the team a visit. ..

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