Double standards in Mzansi ball

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Double standards in Mzansi ball

May 4, 2009 in News

With women in basketball soaring the skies and flying the South African flag high;its sad that hats are not coming off for our talented sisters. From being left in the dark in the old days to dominating the national side of basketball recently, to now having qualified for the African Championship that will be held in Madagascar later this year…

Taking a look at the team that went to Zimbabwe for the qualifiers; most of the players are University students playing in the USSA tournament. Fact: In 2005, Turkey World Student Games, the Mzansi ladies underperformed; denying them the opportunity to play in the 2008 World Student Games. Granted they didn’t do well in Turkey, so it was “acceptable” that they would miss the Thailand Games; but why aren’t they going to Serbia later this year?

A few weeks back, Mybasketball had a brief interview with the outgoing president of USSA basketball; Elijah Ncube. We asked “Mr President” straight forward questions that he struggled to answer. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Angola, Basketball, FISU, Mozambique, SASCOC, Serbia, South Africa, UJ, University of Johannesburg, University of Western Cape, University Sports South Africa, USSA, UWC, William Jones Cup, World Student Games 25 Comments »

by Victor Shakineza

USSA 2009 team to represent South Africa in Serbia

April 21, 2009 in News

This is the training squad (picture above) that will represent the nation at the world student games in Serbia in July from the 1^st to the 12. They will be led by University of Johannesburg assistant coach Molupe Thelejane and University of Western Cape Quinton Rapitse and managed by Frans Mamabolo, who is the new chairperson of USSA and comes from the University of Cape Town.

Article by Victor Shakineza

Tags: Basketball, RSA, Serbia, South Africa, UCT, UJ, University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, University of Western Cape, University Sport South Africa, USSA, UWC, World Student Games 4 Comments »

by Victor Shakineza

WCBA 2009 preseason launch tournament

March 4, 2009 in WCBA

Over the past weekend from 27 february to 1st of March 2009, WCBA had a tournament at the University of Cape Town to get the season underway and let the teams check each other out before the big tip off.

Fixture

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Tags: Basketball, Cape Town University of Technology, Champion, Future Stars, Hout Bay Dolphins, Montana Vikings, University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, University of Western Cape, UWC, WCBA, Western Cape Basketball Association 1 Comment »

by Victor Shakineza

USSA 2008: From Tuks captain point of view

July 31, 2008 in Basketball Diaries, League, USSA

After our 1^st game at the SASSU/USSA national champs against the University of Johannesburg (UJ) which was the worst performance the team has had all year. Having started the tournament on such a bad note there’s only one of two things that a team can do, the first is losing moral and belief in your abilities, and the second which is putting the loss behind you and realizing what needs to be done to get through the group stages and actually doing it. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Basketball, SASSU, TUKS, UJ, University of Johannesburg, University of Pretoria, University of the North West, University of Western Cape, UNW, UP, USSA, UWC, Vaal University of Technology, VUT 1 Comment »

by Victor Shakineza

University of Pretoria Men’s team SASSU/USSA diary 2008

July 15, 2008 in Basketball Diaries, League, USSA

Day 1 – Sunday 29 June 2008

After months of anticipation, our trip to Cape Town for the most prestigious student basketball tournament has arrived. Last night we had a send-off braai filled with much needed bonding involving both the mens’ and the womens’ first teams. Although the trip down was unnecessarily lengthy – we left at 1:00 AM and we arrived at about 19:00 PM – the spirits remained high as we arrived to a warm welcome form the hosts. After getting our game schedule, however, we were shocked to see that our first game is against UJ at 11 oclock tomorrow morning. But anyways, as they say “we gotta do what we gotta do”.

What time is it? Game time baby!! Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Basketball, SASSU, TUKS, UCT, UJ, UKZN, University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, University of Kwazulu Natal, University of Pretoria, University of the North West, University of Western Cape, UNW, USSA, UWC, Vaal University of Technology 1 Comment »

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