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Members of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities achieved great success at the Paralympic Games in London where they won 17 of South Africa’s 29 medals. Local sport stars won three gold, eight silwer and six bronze medals. Multiple medal winners are Charl Bouwer (1 gold, 2 silver), Dyan Buis (2 silver, 1 [...]

Ilse Carstens (Hayes) and Hilton Langenhoven both won silver medals at the Paralympic Games in London on Thursday, while Arnu Fourie pipped Oscar Pistorius to the post to win bronze in the 100m (T44). These three athletes are all members of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities. Ilse came second in the 100m [...]

Arnu Fourie, a member of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities, won a gold medal in the 4x100m relay (T42/T46) at the Paralympic Games in London on Wednesday. Fourie, Samkelo Radebe, Zivan Smith and Oscar Pistorius won South Africa’s fourth gold medal when they completed the relay in a world record time of [...]

Members of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities are making Stellenbosch and South Africa proud by performing well at the Paralympic Games in London. By Wednesday morning (5 September), eight of SA’s 15 medals had been won by members of this club. Charl Bouwer was the cream of the crop with a gold [...]

Natalie du Toit won South Africa’s first gold medal at the Paralympic Games in London on Thursday. The following members of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities are in action today (Friday 31 August) and they will hopefully add to the medal tally: (Please add one hour for SA time) Athletics 200m – T46 [...]

One week ago representatives of the Maties/Helderberg Sports Club for People with Disabilities left Cape Town to meet up with the rest of the South African Paralympic Team in Johannesburg and to travel to London for the 2012 Paralympic Games.  According to Dr Suzanne Ferreira, one of the athletics coaches from Stellenbosch University, it has [...]