Dear Editor
The Democratic Alliances warmly and proudly congratulates Team South Africa on a record-breaking performance at the World Athletic Relays Championship in China this past weekend.
Team SA has made our nation proud, and has once more shown our sporting prestige on the world stage.
Our Men’s 4x100m relay team became the first African team to win Gold. Our Men’s 4x400m team also secured gold win, setting the fastest time on the globe this year, while our Women’s 4x400m relay team has broken the national record – these are extraordinary achievements deserving of the highest praise.
Thank you to Team South Africa for continuing to fly our flag high.
Regards
Joe McGluwa MP
DA Spokesperson on Sports, Arts & Culture

Roma Kabuki
Soccer has been used for political effect: Africans as a bloc convinced FIFA, the game’s world governing body, to suspend South Africa in 1961 because of its apartheid policies.
Marshmallow Treat
Sport Trivia: She was the first South African to win gold at the Olympics after 44 years. She won the gold medal in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in Atlanta in 1996. Answer: Penny Heyns. Penny Heynes held 14 records for breaststroke. During the 1999 Pan Pacific games, she broke 6 world records, (many of them her own previous records), and by the end of 1999 she held the record for the 50m, 100m and 200m long course breaststroke, simultaneously.