Extreme Skating & Biking Action Gets Visitors Revved Up For 2023 Ballito Pro Festival
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Extreme Skating & Biking Action Gets Visitors Revved Up For 2023 Ballito Pro Festival

The UmhlangaJune 27, 2023

The epic sporting action isn’t limited to KwaDukuza’s surf for the 2023 Ballito Pro Presented by O’Neill – visitors can expect top-level trials biking demonstrations and skateboarding action as part of the Festival events. Things get started with the Ballito Pro Skate Jam at the Ballito Bowl on Saturday, 1 July from 12pm, with Brent Le Riche returning to perform his world-class moves as part of the Monster Energy Programme from 7 to 9 July....

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The Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill to go ahead with its COVID-19 safety programme
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The Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill to go ahead with its COVID-19 safety programme

The UmhlangaNovember 29, 2021

With the new Omnicron variant driving a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, concerns have been raised about health and safety and public events. Fortunately, event organisers of the 2021 Ballito Pro presented by O’Neill have implemented a stringent COVID-19 safety programme to protect contestants and visitors. This will allow the KwaDukuza event to go ahead as scheduled from 9 to 19 December. “In planning for The Ballito Pro, our COVID-19 safety programme has taken into...

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RISE BY SIYA KOLISI – His truth. His story. In his words.
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RISE BY SIYA KOLISI – His truth. His story. In his words.

The UmhlangaOctober 15, 2021

There have been many comments made and books written about Siya Kolisi, captain of the Springboks, and the first black man to lead his country in over 128 years of South African rugby. But now, for the very first time, Siya Kolisi shares his story in an extraordinarily intimate memoir, charting his journey from being born into the impoverished Zwide township, his 2018 appointment as captain of the Springboks – recognised worldwide as a pivotal...

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The 5am Club
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The 5am Club

The UmhlangaApril 16, 2020

They say that those who get up at 5:00a.m. every morning achieve so much more than those of us who, after three alarms have gone off, manage to crawl out of bed half an hour before we need to be at work. Not only do they achieve more, but they are healthier and more balanced too! To many of us, the thought of getting up this early is mad, but not to Tiki Tonga Coffee....

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