Mduduzi

tough guy. With several weeks left before we were to head to Durban, I still had no idea who would be our pitcher. One day I gave Mduduzi the ball and asked Mdu if he wanted to try pitching. He shrugged his shoulders and said ok. Viktorija crouched behind home plate, Mdu wound up and boom! A strike right in the mit! He was a natural, throwing strikes every pitch and, and pretty hard too! I was amazed, and he was pretty thrilled with himself too.

Baseball at Thanda

October 1st 2008
The final week before the beginning of the school holiday at Thanda, the last of the long-awaited baseball gear arrived. Up until this point, the extent of the baseball program at Thanda involved me making several baseballs a day out of plastic bread bags, and cleaning out several 5-gallon peanut butter buckets to use as ball buckets. So the day the equipment arrived was a BIG DAY for Thanda bas ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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