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| IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by WannaHowzit(m): 8:28pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
Encouraged by Banyana Banyana’s successes at the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand but a world away, deep in the Valley of 1 000 Hills in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, a group of gogos (grannies) are as focussed on football as they are on grandchild, vegetable gardening, housekeeping and cooking during their daily grind. Only, the former is an escape from the latter. “I used to have a problem with my knee but this has helped it,” Nantobheko Ngubane, 43, told the Independent on Saturday. “It also helps with my blood pressure.” The gogos’ foray into football is a venture of the Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust (Hact) and is part of the build up to the Gogo Olympics, to be held on Friday, August 25, at the nearby KwaXimba sports grounds. It will be the 10th annual Gogo Olympics, and the first since 2019, after which the Covid pandemic forced it to stop. Along with football there will be athletic events, not to mention a massive gathering of gogos. 1 Share
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| Re: IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by WannaHowzit(m): 8:30pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
Some teams are for older gogos (grannies); other are for younger gogos and there’s one for the omkhulu – the grandfathers. “They are fast learners,” Hlengwa said in between instructing them during exercises in dribbling and throwing a ball through hoops. Phindiwe Mashiloane, co-ordinator of the Hact Gogo Sports Group Programme, said football was a brief escape for gogos living lonely, hard lives. “Today’s grandchildren don’t have time for the grannies who feel very lonely because the children are talking to their cell phones, talking to their TVs. They don’t have enough time to talk to their gogos. The gogos are lonely in their households.” The generation in between is often dependent on the gogos too. “Unemployment is the biggest problem. Most of their grandchildren have passed their matrics. Some have been to university but they are unemployed. They are staying at home, still dependent on their grannies with their very small pensions. 1 Share
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| Re: IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by Acekidc4(m): 8:31pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
Our Lovely Mothers. I Love all Women in General, they are Lovely Creatures!! |
| Re: IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by Holyone1(m): 8:31pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
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| Re: IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by WannaHowzit(m): 8:53pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
Greatest message here: Remember your elderly parents or grannies are bored 80% of the time. Make time for them. |
| Re: IN PICTURES: South African Grannies Train For Local Olympics by WannaHowzit(m): 9:19pm On Aug 05, 2023 |
It just hit me. Do old people want grandkids to stay with them so they don't get lonely? |
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