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One of the lessons I took away from reading Brent Rushall’s[1] sports psychology book[2] “Psyching in Sport: The Psychological Preparation for Serious Compet...

Intentional design is at the heart of all coaching programmes aimed at developing performance and life skills outcomes. On the one side developing the physic...

I was taken out for dinner to a local restaurant that does Asian Fusion food to celebrate my birthday last week. Whilst I had a glass of wine, the others in ...

Where sports organisations have acted on their duty of care to safeguard participants in their sport from non-accidental harm, there has to date been a focus...

I met Lou Bergholz at the Beyond Sport conference held in Cape Town in December 2011. Although we talked on that occasion the opportunity for collaboration s...

Recent cases of historical abuse of children is sport around the world should be of concern to South Africa’s sports administrators. Few South African sports...

There seems to be quite some concern in Sport for Development and Peace circles that UN Secretary-General António Guterres has announced that the United Nati...

Sport is delivered through a workforce that is comprised of both salaried staff and volunteers. The workforce comprises administrators, technical officials, ...

Traditional sports programmes focus on developing individual players and teams to take part and pursue success in sports competition. Sport for development p...

Richard Mayer is a South African athletics coach, runner, athletics statistician and an advocate for the Lydiard approach to running.  He recently asked this...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a renowned South African Anglican cleric known for his opposition to the policies of apartheid. During the 1980s he played an almo...

The Gleneagles Agreement was unanimously approved by the Commonwealth of Nations at a meeting at Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Scotland. In 1977, Commonwealth Pr...

Norman Brook recently presented at the Western Province Athletics Coaches Workshop held at the Sports Science Institute in Cape Town. The following blog refl...

In a previous article Norman Brook asked whether sport could really be used to address the Millennium Development Goals. In this article Norman revisits the ...

The following article was presented at the Next Steps Sports Development Symposium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in November 2011. Community based “sport for d...