What a thumping!

The Springboks played Australia at Coca-Cola Park (formerly Ellis Park) in a Tri-Nations encounter in which the Springboks won with a convincing scoreline of 53-8Pierre Spies races toward the try line.
Prop Jannie Du Plessis pushes through the Australian backline.Recently there was talk about Ellis Park being the spritual home of the Springboks, well I think that may have been confirmed with the 53-8 defeat of Australia, that absolutely no-one could have predicted, including me, who embarrasingly said that Australia would beat the boks 17-10 in a prematch competition.

But even though it is the biggest winning margin against Australia, we will still end up 3rd in the Tri-Nations.

But, at least we had one great game...

Good times!

A suspected drugdealer runs away from police in Hillbrow during ongoing operations to curb drug dealing and use in Hillbrow, Johannesburg.            

 Drugs are the root causes of all the other crime in the area according to police.

A policeman sneaks up on some suspected drug dealers.

A suspected drug dealer fell under this trailer in his bid to run away from police. He recieved no sympathy from the police :)

It's been a while since I've had a good run about chasing cops, chasing criminals. I really enjoyed it, I even found it quite easy, I reckon I'm getting much fitter from playing Action-Soccer. The cops were doing operations to bust drug dealers and rubber bullets were flying all over the place, and then there's this lone camera-man chasing them all over the show, flashes blazing.

Good times...

A silver lining?, where?

South Africa's sole medal winner, Khotso Mokoena during a press conference at the Southern Sun, OR Tambo in Johannesburg airport after team SA returned home from the Beijing Olympics.A lot has been said about SA's poor performance during the Olympics, in fact, in relation to the number of athletes sent, SA was the worst performing team in the entire world. Now for a country that is widely regarded as a sporting country, that is just not on.

I personally believe that the powers that be have been sticking their political, undercover rascist noses into the team a bit too much, but we can leave that for another post :)

One of the talking points is the funding aspect. Other countries have spent much more money on their teams than ours, personally I reckon that they should bin the team, spend the money on trying to get rid of informal settlements and putting poor people in houses.

Now thats an idea!
Mokoena won a silver medal in the long jump.

More rugby, man!

Vodacom Cheetahs from Free-State play Xerox Lions from Johannesburg at Coca Cola Park, (ex Ellis Park) in Johannesburg. The Cheetahs won 38-28 during a action filled match.I've decided that I'm going to shoot a lot of rugby from now on, including the smaller provincial matches with a view to using them as a practice for the international matches. One of my new short term goals is to win the SASOL Springbok Photographer of the Year next year.
So wish me luck... and watch this space :)

This is gonna hurt!

Argentina's Patricio Albacete runs into Percy Montgomery, Luke Watson and Pierre Spies during the test between Argentina at Coca Cola Park in Johannesburg that the Springboks won 63-9.CJ Van Der Linde and Beast Mtawarira on the attack.

Two example of pics I shot during the test between Argentina and South Africa showing Argentinians thinking, "oh, no , this is gonna hurt!"

Mandela's long birthday party

Bafana Bafana and the Springboks light candles on two cakes to wish Nelson Mandela a belated Happy Birthday at the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Even though Nelson Mandela's birthday is on the 18 July, celebrations still continue. Today the South African football and rugby teams visited him under the glare of the worlds media. The media piles in to the Nelson Mandela Foundation's small, poorly lit auditorium, as they always do when Mandela is involved. The two teams gave him a big cake each, they lit the candles, sung happy birthday, and shared a joke or two.

As I was leaving I noticed the untouched cakes being packed into boxes, "I'm sure he and everyone around him is sick of cake by now", I thought to myself. I found out later that after the throngs of media left the Foundation, a small group of people including Mandela visited a small hospice in Alexandra unannounced to give them the cakes...

I liked that...