Sivuyisiwe Hombile, Author at Consciousness.co.za Magazine

Aussies Snatch it Away, Again!

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:46:54 +0000

You’d have to go all the way back to the 40’s to find the last time the Aussies were beaten by the Proteas here in South Africa in a test series. 50 years is a long time to wait and we will just have wait longer to see that fete. Greats such as Barry Richards [...]

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Blunders, Brunts & Bruises!

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:56:41 +0000

[Soccer] Never has there been a time for South African Sport to experience the greatest embarrassment as was the case during the recent 2012 AFCON qualifier matches. Bafana Bafana did not qualify! To some this may not come as a surprise but to many believers, Bafana Bafana is capable of doing better indeed. So what [...]

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Everybody Has A Dream

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:42:50 +0000

So goes the proverbial song by the Manhattans about how everyone goes through imagining themselves reaching certain levels but as we all know the implementation requires more than just thoughts but discipline and transfixed efforts towards the achievement of the goal. So before any big race everyone usually thinks there is a modicum of hope [...]

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An Afternoon with Olufemi

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:16:36 +0000

Artist’s paradise Newtown is abuzz on a warm spring day as a few celebrities cascade a man’s vision and from across the road looms a very familiar figure to the jazz cognoscentes in the country at precisely the set time for the appointment to repudiate any vestige of pre madona ideas one could have of [...]

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Moment of Truth

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:06:05 +0000

So another dreadlocked bloke butchers the national anthemand it happens to be in a rugby event. You would have thought who ever arrangessuch logistics would have learnt from the notorious Ras Dumisani saga. Well ArdMatthews’ antics weren’t the only heart breaking incident when the announcementof the Bok 30 man squad who are going to New [...]

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Nascent Stages

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:45:31 +0000

The Rugby World Cup is merely a 30+ days away and as Bok day fever runs rampant every friday one is reminded once again of last years’ frenzy and razzmatazz. Ironic how those pyrrhic memories will symbolise something else in the years to come as once again a caveat has been given to the country [...]

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Time To Say Goodbye

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:17:47 +0000

Imagine Steven Gerrard being asked what it would take for him and his teammates to win a Premiership and he nonchalantly answered that a move to Manchester United would suffice that would be quite comical to some but to some Mersyside faithfuls it would be the most treacherous cardinal sin. Well Nico Rosberg once asked [...]

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Photo Finishes

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:45:38 +0000

May is just that month that’s the ultimate crescendo for sports fans as things have percolated over the last few months brewing what is ultimately the final weeks of a soccer season, this usually gives birth to the acme of a sporting fanatics’ glee as the tussles and tug of wars give rewards to the [...]

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Innovation?s & Eras

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:42:53 +0000

What was once labeled the Super 6, then became the Super 8 and then the Super 10,12,14 now is just termed Super Rugby to avoid further name changes with further permutations. Newcomers the Rebels are struggling as would have been expected while the adroit seven times champs the Crusaders were looking invincible until the [...]

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Fever Pitch

Sivuyisiwe Hombile — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:41:13 +0000

The title of this article is not a reference to the condition or health of the surfaces that have been utilized in the sub-continent more especially the ones inducted to replay the eponymous David to Goliath outcomes that had England on the receiving end of some seismic upsets. After winning the Ashes series things have [...]

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