Though there are still challenges, parasport champions are breaking records on the track and in boardrooms
The story of the boxer carrying the hopes of his father is a complicated one
Sascoc says paralympic athletes will earn the same bonuses their able-bodied counterparts received on their triumphant return from the London Games.
Team South Africa bagged their first gold medal of the London Paralympic Games when Natalie du Toit won the women’s 100m butterfly S9 final.
The Paralympics begin in London today, and while the Games mark Natalie du Toit’s swan song, SA’s young Paralympians are ready to take up her mantle.
The 2012 Paralympic Games are due to begin in London on Wednesday, with Natalie du Toit and Oscar Pistorius leading the South African charge.
The world’s top athletes with a disability meet in London next week for what organisers say will be the biggest Paralympics in the Games’ history.
Oscar Pistorius and Natalie du Toit have been earmarked to head the country’s team when Sascoc marked the 100-day countdown to the Paralympic Games.
Swimming champion Natalie Du Toit has won the annual Laureus Disability award, Sascoc said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Natalie du Toit on Monday said she was eyeing London 2012 after winning five Paralympic golds and competing in the Beijing Olympics.
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/ 14 September 2008
Natalie du Toit snared her fifth gold medal of the Paralympics on Sunday in an event 9,950m shorter than the race she took part in at the Olympics.
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/ 12 September 2008
SA Olympic swimmer Natalie du Toit bagged her fourth gold of the Paralympics on Friday, leaving her just one short in her quest for five titles.
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/ 12 September 2008
It took only three days of the Paralympics to transform the disgruntled faces of South African sports fans into broad grins.
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/ 11 September 2008
Olympian Natalie du Toit grabbed her third gold of the Paralympics on Thursday on a day tarnished by more doping scandals
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/ 11 September 2008
SA’s Natalie du Toit smashed her own world record on Thursday to grab her third gold of the Paralympics.
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/ 8 September 2008
Oscar Pistorius on Monday began his bid for a sprint treble at the Paralympics while compatriot Natalie du Toit won her second gold in the pool.
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/ 7 September 2008
Britain took an early lead in the Paralympics medal table on Sunday as South African Olympian Natalie du Toit starred.
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/ 6 September 2008
More than 4 000 athletes are set for the opening on Saturday of what promises to be a dazzling Paralympics in Beijing.
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/ 5 September 2008
Mail & Guardian reporter Lucky Sindane speaks to Olympic swimmer Natalie du Toit about Sascoc’s poor management ahead of the Paralympics.
Natalie du Toit pulled herself on to the dock and waited for someone to bring her prosthetic leg. Du Toit didn’t finish where she wanted.
All is not lost yet, but there is a fair bit of panic in some SA circles as, after almost a week in Beijing, the country is yet to win a medal.
Inspirational amputee swimmer Natalie du Toit will carry South Africa’s flag at the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
SA go into their fifth Olympic Games since sporting isolation with their medal hopes once again pinned on their swimmers and track and field athletes.
Swimmer Natalie du Toit will compete in the Olympics and the Paralympics at the Beijing Games after she was named in South Africa’s team on Thursday.
Mimi Mthethwa, Ria Ledwaba, Penny Heyns, Tania Fourie, Natalie du Toit, Pietie Coetzee, Hestrie Cloete and Muditambi Ravele.