Boks fly into quarters
4 Dec 2009
Ryno Benjamin scored four tries on the opening day of the Dubai Sevens as South Africa finished at the top of their pool.
The Sevens champs beat Australia 29-0 win to set up a quarter-final clash with Fiji. Benjamin scored a brace in the first half while captain Paul Delport rounded off a great period of play where South Africa displayed their great ball retention and innovative attacking skills.
At 19-0 down at half-time, the Aussies were dead and buried. Mzwandile Stick crashed over from close range early in second period, and added his second just a minute before the final whistle.
In their second pool match, Chase Minnaar scored a brace in South Africa’s six-try demolition of the Arabian Gulf. The Bok Sevens outfit emerged 36-7 victors in their second pool match where they were dominant across all facets of play. Minnaar showcased his speed and skill to beat the defence for South Africa’s first try, a score which was quickly followed by a five-pointer for Delport.
Their strength at the breakdown, where Kyle Brown was particularly prominent, resulted in a number of penalties. Delport’s vision and acceleration helped the Boks immensely, as he spun a long pass to MJ Mentz who in turn found Benjamin for South Africa’s third try.
Neil Powell and Brown got on the scoreboard while Minnaar added his second to round off some sparkling interplay. Arabian Gulf were denied by some fantastic defence early in the match, but Marcus Smith did manage to crash over for a consolation score right at the death.
In South Africa’s first match on Friday, the Blitzboks began their defence of the Dubai title with a 28-14 victory over Wales.
Benjamin opened the scoring when Delport opted for a tap penalty. Delport was involved again just a moment later when he intercepted a Welsh pass and cantered over the tryline.
Mpho Mbiyozo bashed his way through some feeble tackle-attempts to extend South Africa’s lead, but Wales scored an important try through Alex Cuthbert right on half-time.
The Blitzboks were far less clinical in the second period, spilling the ball in contact on a couple of occasions when they had the tryline at their mercy. Cuthbert sparked Wales’ second try when he sprinted down the touchline and found Lloyd Williams for the finish.
Wales attempted to level the scores in the dying seconds, but Stick turned defence into attack when he beneffited from a loose Welsh pass. Stick chipped and had the pace and skill to beat the cover defence for the regather as South Africa finished a mediocre second-half with a flourish.
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4 Dec 2009, 21:43 pm
@skopskiet:
yeah he is a bit, i just like stirring actually.
good luck to junior, tough times that matric – ridiculous pressure.
he going oat-sowing on year out like pa?
4 Dec 2009, 21:44 pm
@Robzim:
Granted…BUT
Accent maybe “good business” principle as you put it but I dont by that mate.the likes of Penelope Cruz have won Oscar’s,dated Tom Cruise but no fake accent.Antonio Banderas has been in Hollywood for over 20 yrs and still no phoney accent.Gywneth Paltrow,Judie Dench etc they have never struggled to get “business” with their English accent.Ditto Irish boy Colin farrell.
But she must be commended for her success.
But thats where it ends with me.
4 Dec 2009, 21:49 pm
@cab:
Everyone claims to be friendly with Madiba…Even Naomi Campbell annointed herself his “granddaughter”…lol
4 Dec 2009, 21:52 pm
@mshiniwami:
lol, yeah thats true also, guess there are’nt many bigger figureheads.
4 Dec 2009, 21:56 pm
#100
F#koff man, she is not a tannie!
Rhuda Landman and Dlamini Zuma are tannies.
I must further add that tannie Zuma is the best minister we ever had.
She f#cked up the smokers once and for all – today we can go to any restaurant and enjoy ourselves without having to inhale their poison.
So, some tannies are great.
4 Dec 2009, 21:56 pm
WP !!!! ooops bokke
4 Dec 2009, 21:58 pm
@Robzim:
hehe
ok out, mr zim, good weekend. no desperate housewives, very funny that.
4 Dec 2009, 21:59 pm
colin farrel has been irish in about 3% of the schlock **** he puts out.
in bruges was good though.
but ja, loads sell out, not just the poppy.
i dont even know why you people are so judgemental about a woman clearly comitted to helping fight rape, poverty etc?
4 Dec 2009, 22:00 pm
@mshiniwami:
erm Paltrow is american
Colin Farell in Miami vice ?
what would you call that accent?
JZ’s daughter worked for me a few summers ago…I thought she was american when I first interviewed her…
4 Dec 2009, 22:01 pm
@mshiniwami:
I see your point, but she is Afrikaans, so I do not know whether that accent would have worked for the type of movies she targeted.
4 Dec 2009, 22:01 pm
awesome… maybe THEY’LL win this thing
4 Dec 2009, 22:01 pm
@rangerman:
zigactly…
and ALWAYS a proud south african…
4 Dec 2009, 22:02 pm
dudes ITS HOLIDAY!
4 Dec 2009, 22:03 pm
@mshiniwami:
also a spanish accent is quite sexy
I don’t know if you can say the same for a benoni drawl…
with apologies to soda joe…
4 Dec 2009, 22:03 pm
Perhaps inkosizana is our solution at TH?
4 Dec 2009, 22:03 pm
@cab:
Take it easy Cab, i always enjoy your input.
4 Dec 2009, 22:04 pm
@gunther: true, why so many wannabe americans in south africa.
ek grill when i hear the fake ‘mericanese accents used for advertising. for instance, that chappy doing the cider advert.
where is he from? maybe he doesnt even know OR he wants to forget?
either way, charlize at least lives there. she is more entitled to ebonics than anyone in south africa.
out for now.
tjorts.
4 Dec 2009, 22:07 pm
@rangerman: amen boet , and like it or not , the idiots in here callijng her a bimbo because she has made it great in the world should look at their mothers and see a real BIMBO
arrogant pricks
4 Dec 2009, 22:07 pm
calling*
4 Dec 2009, 22:09 pm
Whats all that goody goody stuff got to do with the fact that she’s totally out of place in an African setting, she’s hardly African and didn’t fit in this 2010 draw thingamajig, she’s a Hollywood tinseltown bimbo and whoever organized that shindig should have realized she’s totally out of place as the MC. Should have been a proper SA girl not a Hollywood glamour queen. Plus she was nervous as hell and didn’t ride the occasion well.
4 Dec 2009, 22:12 pm
jeez she is a world famous star and one of sa’s great success stories o the world stage… I have no idea what she was doing there…
4 Dec 2009, 22:13 pm
omw you can’t be serious. You sound like the girls at my school. NOT a compliment.
4 Dec 2009, 22:13 pm
@rangerman: @gunther:
Never said that here accent must be Afrikaans in her movies.She is an actress who has to adapt to the role and its requirements.
My problem is when her accent is PERMANENTLY in that annoying fake twang even outside the silver screen.HWen she speaks on interviews,SA events etc its also in that shiitty accent.
Quite the cintrary with:
Dench
Farrell
Cruz
Bana
etc who when not in character revert to their normal accents.
Charlize doesnt.even amongst her own people
4 Dec 2009, 22:13 pm
@skopskiet: Relax, Safricans are all over the world and we are all keeping the flag flying high
4 Dec 2009, 22:15 pm
@skopskiet:
No man, she was not nervous at all.
She cracked jokes all the time, even calling the idiot Beckham “hi Sweetheart” and he nearly fainted.
The marathon runner with the funny clothes was out of his depth imo.
Great runner, but not good in front of the camera’s with 200m people watching.
Charlize rules for me.
4 Dec 2009, 22:17 pm
@mshiniwami: and you care?
4 Dec 2009, 22:17 pm
@mshiniwami:
she has lived there for more than 15 years cut her some slack…
I know people who have never set foot in the states who speak with an american twang…
who would you have chosen?
4 Dec 2009, 22:18 pm
one wonders what the pessimists are on about now? It’s here fellas “ke nako” it’s time.
If you missed the boat to cash in you’re kinda late now…bring on the world…gotta make this dough y’all
4 Dec 2009, 22:19 pm
moenie worry nie I’m quite relaxed its all these other south africans that can’t handle me calling their Benoni bimbo a bimbo. Sorry but Charlize I’m sure is a nice chick back at the ranch but she’s like living in a figment of her imagination if she’s calling this home and being all patriotic because it isn’t.
4 Dec 2009, 22:20 pm
cheers ladies
4 Dec 2009, 22:20 pm
@Robzim: I actually cannot believe that I am going to agree with you
4 Dec 2009, 22:21 pm
@JL1:
#124
I don’t believe it. We agree on something. At last.
4 Dec 2009, 22:22 pm
@JL1:
OK, tell Carol I say cheers!
4 Dec 2009, 22:22 pm
@skopskiet: It will always be “home”
4 Dec 2009, 22:24 pm
@skopskiet:
you are a bimbo in short pant…
4 Dec 2009, 22:24 pm
@Robzim: On a woman of all things, I will tell Carol that you say hi
4 Dec 2009, 22:26 pm
The little black girl asked her if she really supported soccer, and she almost did a back flip before she caught herself, seriously what she know about soccer? I reckon even Haile Gebreselassie probably supports soccer little more though he’s no Hollywood film star so he don’t have the gift of the gab to get himself out of trouble. John Smit did fine. Beckham was nervous. Charlize held it together but she was the wrong choice for that gig.
4 Dec 2009, 22:29 pm
Johannesburg – Prepare to be disappointed, South Africans. One of the world’s leading sports economists says you’re not going to get rich hosting next year’s World Cup.
There’ll be no economic bonanza, according to a new book, and if experience matches the last World Cup in Germany, spending by visitors will be much less than the South African government shelled out preparing for the tournament.
“The next World Cup will not be an airplane dropping dollars on South Africa,” authors Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper write in the book “Soccernomics.” The caveat comes just ahead of Friday’s World Cup draw in South Africa, six months before football’s showpiece tournament.
Using data analysis, history and psychology, the book debunks dozens of myths about what it takes to win, and who makes money in football – and in sports in general.
“The problem for South Africa is that they have to spend quite a lot to build stadiums,” Szymanski said in a telephone interview from London. “Germany could afford this, and it had stadiums anyway. But South Africa is a nation that can ill afford to fritter away a few billion on white elephants.”
Following the 2002 World Cup, for instance, South Korea’s K-League had difficulties filling the 10 new stadiums built for the tournament at a cost of more than $2bn.
The book’s argument is that hosting a World Cup or Olympics is an inefficient way to revitalise a city, or enrich a nation – especially one like South Africa, where a third of the population lives on under $2 a day. It can boost a nation’s morale or image, but not much else.
“If you want to regenerate a poor neighborhood, regenerate it,” Szymanski and Kuper write. “If you want an Olympic pool and a warm-up track, build them. You could build pools and tracks all across London, and it would still be cheaper than hosting the Olympics.”
from news 24 interesting…
4 Dec 2009, 22:29 pm
@JL1:
Cool, tell her to stop supporting the bulls as well.
Maybe she will listen to u.
I have tried hard but failed.
Even Grant has failed.
You are our last hope.
4 Dec 2009, 22:30 pm
How was Schuster? Another famous celebrity. He was always a bit dodgy, but started moving into some really avant guarde territory when he used that wee black dwarf as a sidekick.
4 Dec 2009, 22:30 pm
@skopskiet:
I beg to differ. She fits in anywhere. She’s down to earth and just is herself.
You always are so judgmental of any Saffa that goes abroad and makes something of their life. You’re the ultimate Mr.Pull ‘em Down.
The irony is that you have more of a laager mentality than you realise. Check in the mirror.
You will never let things just be. You have a better way. Leave your ego at the door and people may just like you.
Ohhh, but you don’t want that. To be loved and accepted??? Nah, you want your form of victimhood forever and the need to justify and condemn. It makes you feel “safe”.
Get a life granddad. Your kids must have had a hard time with you.
4 Dec 2009, 22:30 pm
@skopskiet:
who was the right choice know it all?
4 Dec 2009, 22:31 pm
poor Gunther I’ve gone n slated his pin up idol goddess
4 Dec 2009, 22:33 pm
@skopskiet:
not at all its just that you always seem to know better …. whilst knowing nothing at all… the ultimate backseat driver…
4 Dec 2009, 22:36 pm
@gunther:
Its irritating,I lived there for 3 yrs and i aint got one.Spoke Zulu in doors all the times
My Aunt has lived in the states for 25 yrs and is married with kids with an American and she has no accent.Maybe a few words but no accent.All her kids know isiZulu,they speak it at home.
Vosloo has lived in the Sates for over 15 yrs as well….ummm nada fake accent.
Would have gotten Lucas Radebe to be MC
No need for supposed “eye candy” to be MC
4 Dec 2009, 22:38 pm
whats with you poor freaks. charlize Theron was totally out of place in that African World cup setting you got your pipe *** knickers in a twist about f.all. Can’t stomach a little objectivity cause the poor Benoni bimbo is white or whats your beef exactly. I’m sure she’s a sweet little lassie from the East rand but she was out of place in that setting and she was embarrassing with her yankee drawl.
4 Dec 2009, 22:39 pm
yeah good point, where was radebe, he captained leeds.
gary bailey, the cat, was one of man u’s best goalies.
even that mass-*** zimbo liverpool goalie would have been a card.
or they could have got the godfather, the wahl bartman of SA soccer, jomo sono.
4 Dec 2009, 22:41 pm
jomo in his prime had a boep like flippie van der merwe, but he had skills.
4 Dec 2009, 22:41 pm
@mshiniwami: MShini, Lucas could never have appealed to overseas audiences like Charlize did.Go onto the BBC website blog or any other covering the draw and read the plaudits for her. Man she even had a great stab at the French in the practice draw when she drew France and called out Ireland.
4 Dec 2009, 22:42 pm
@cab: And give credence to the Saffer image of being boring and conservative.
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