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Time launches site
to motivate youth
New social media sports channel entertains and educates
SIVENATHI GOSA
Local coach and social media
influencer Sesethu Time has
found a way of keeping sport
conversations going for enthusiasts
during the lockdown.
Time recently launched a channel,
#Lockdownconvos with Coach Time,
on social media, on which interviews
with various sport personalities are
held.
“The channel is about engaging
with different sports personalities from
professional to schoolboy level,
each from different sporting codes, and
getting to know them and finding out
about them from a personal
perspective. They also give their
thoughts on the pandemic, as well as
sharing their lockdown routines and
motivation for youngsters,” Time said.
He said the inspiration behind the
channel was to try and take people’s
minds off the lockdown by offering
conversations for the youth, especially
those who wanted to play professional
sport.
“The main purpose behind it is not
only to entertain but to educate the
importance of perseverance,
determination, as well self-discipline in
the sporting world,” he said.
Time became an internet sensation
last year, when a video of him giving a
motivational speech to Queens’
College pupils during their PE lesson
went viral (“Coach an SA internet
sensation”, Daily Dispatch, April 5
2019).
He said the channel provided
quality, educational content, filled with
humour and enthusiasm.
The videos are broadcast
on Tuesdays and Fridays at 7pm on
Ti m e ’s I n s t a g ra m , @ s e t h u _ t i m e 0 2 .
“I urge people to watch every
Tuesday and Friday should they wish to
gain information about their favourite
sporting heroes and if they want to
e n g a g e ,” he said.
GOING VIRAL: Sesethu Time talks to sports personalities on his own social
media channel Picture: SUPPLIED
A look at some of SA’s top all-round sportsmen
PETER MARTIN
As the 19th Century drew to a
close, sport began to be
organised between countries,
and with it grew an increasing
number of sportsmen proficient
in more than one code who
were capped as double
internationals or even triple.
However, in those early
years there were set months for
cricket during the summer while
sports such as soccer and rugby
were played during the winter,
making it easier for the talented
to play more than one sport.
Once SA had tasted the joys
and agonies of Test cricket in
1889, five players — Pe rcy
Twentyman-Jones, A H “B i d dy ”
Anderson, Albert Powell, Alfred
Richards and Jimmy Sinclair
— represented SA at cricket as
well as rugby union.
Richards captained SA in
only one cricket Test, later
captaining SA at rugby and for
good measure, also refereeing a
couple of rugby Tests.
However, the most
successful of the five was allrounder
Sinclair, who scored
S A’s first three Test centuries —
one in 80 minutes — and
always batted at a furious pace,
finishing up with 1,069 runs and
63 wickets in 25 Test matches
between 1896 and 1911.
He also played one rugby
Test for the Springboks and one
soccer international.
Sinclair scored a triplecentury
in a Transvaal club
match and also laid claim to the
longest six ever hit. He smashed
a ball over the boundary at the
Old Wanderers ground in
Johannesburg near the railway
line and it was found two days
later in a goods train in Cape
Tow n , about 1,500km away.
During the period just prior
to World War I, Percy Sherwell
became a triple-international,
skippering SA at cricket on two
overseas tours, scoring a century
at Lord’s in 1907, and
representing SA later at soccer
and tennis.
Three other players — Fra n k
Mitchell, Frank Hearne and
Reggie Schwarz, who were all
born in England — represented
England at rugby and SA at
cricket, while Border’s Gerald
Hartigan played five cricket
Tests and six soccer
internationals for SA.
Between the two world wars,
two outstanding sportsmen
made names for themselves.
At the age of 20, Harold
“Tu p py ” Owen-Smih scored a
century before lunch against
England at Leeds in 1929 — a
rare feat at Test level — adding
103 for the last wicket with
Sandy Bell, a record for SA that
stood for 81 years.
At Oxford University, he
obtained blues for cricket and
rugby and also represented the
university as a lightweight boxer
and athlete. He also captained
England at rugby as f u l l b a ck .
Tony Harris was a most
precocious talent for Griqualand
West. As a schoolboy he
played rugby, cricket, soccer,
squash, golf and tennis at a high
level. At 12 he captured the
ALL-ROUNDER: William ‘Buster’ Farrer poses with a copy of the book on his sporting career, ‘All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer
Story’, published in 2013 Picture: SINO MAJANGAZA
Griqualand West junior tennis
championship and while still at
school, he played Currie Cup
cricket, scoring a century on his
first-class debut against Orange
Free State in 1933.
In 1937, at the age of
21, Harris was in the Springbok
rugby team on tour to Australia
and New Zealand where at
flyhalf, he partnered with the
dive-passsing Danie Craven
to great success in two
Tests, helping the team
become the first Springbok side
to win a series in New Zealand.
After a remarkable stint as a
fighter polit during World War
2, Harris gained national
colours at cricket as a member
of Alan Melville’s 1947 touring
team in England.
Po s s i b l y S A’s greatest allround
sportsman is William
“Buster” Farrer, who gained
Border colours in six different
sports — cricket, hockey, golf,
squash, badminton and bowls
—– and gained international
colours at cricket and hockey.
Farrer was also a keen longdistance
runner and completed
the Comrades Marathon one
year, running with old cricket
teammate Peter Pollock. Now
83, he lives in Gonubie.