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SASSU Basketball Tournament 2009

By on January 27, 2009 in League with 3 Comments

Please be informed that we are continuing with the same tournament format as last years one, the club championship. Please find each Provincial allocation of Sports. Each Province is expected to organize its qualifiers, a copy of the qualifying programme. Each Province can use one of the two methods:  Ø Round Robin or Ø Tournament […]

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Vision 2008 by old BSA regime

By on November 13, 2008 in News with 2 Comments

 •1.      HISTORY No Clear vision, hence no goal orientation; Double-digit Growth over the past ten years; No customer focus; Fragmentation of the sport; Role Confusion, vis-à-vis, affiliates, etc. Lack of clear direction from the federation; Lack of interest from sponsorship market; Uncoordinated development programs; Lack of capacity in national office; Dearth of high level basketball […]

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The resurrection of Basketball South Africa

By on October 27, 2008 in News with 31 Comments

After a pleasurable Friday afternoon there was only one more matter to attend to. The SASCOC offices on Saturday where BSA had the elections for a new Mandate to take over the BSA head quarters. After all the drama that was happening in basketball for the past number of years; earlier this year, an interim […]

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Unitards and Gold Medals….

By on October 6, 2008 in FanZone with 10 Comments
Unitards and Gold Medals….

Photo credit: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images I wrote this piece on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.  The USA re-established their dominance as world leaders in basketball as both women and men’s teams won the ultimate athletic achievement, Olympic gold.  Asides from Mali’s butter fingered opposition to Lisa Leslie’s team USA in the women’s preliminaries, one […]

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University of Johannesburg Women’s team SASSU/USSA diary 2008

By on August 10, 2008 in FanZone with 0 Comments
University of Johannesburg Women’s team SASSU/USSA diary 2008

Day of departure from OR Tambo international airport: 29 June 2008. FLIGHT TIME-10:00 AM ARRIVAL TIME-12:30 PM Day 1: DAY OF ARRIVAL – Sunday 29 June 2008 The flight was good, a nice 2-hour flight all hyped up and all. We arrived there in a jiffy and then there was trouble at the Cape Town […]

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