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Abubakar Akhalwaya from Pirates eSports is now South Africa’s VS Gaming champion. (Supplied)
ABUBAKAR AKHALWAYA

Africa has a new Fifa king

This week’s Gaming Corner looks at how the VS Gaming final played out and what it took for Abubakar Akhalwaya to walk away as Africa’s best

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
3 min read
Mubeen Gafoor (right) has seen the South African Pro Clubs League grow from 10 teams in one division to 64 teams in four divisions. (Supplied)
11 PLAYER TEAM
Video

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local…

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
5 min read
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the footballer extraordinaire, has set up a fundraiser to fight Covid-19 in Italy, the country that served as home for much of his career. He kicked things off with a cool €100000 donation. (Xavier Laine/Getty Images)
ANFIELD

Tips to keep you entertained on weekends of no sport

Here are four things you can do while your favorite team is in quarantine

  • Luke Feltham
  • Eyaaz Matwadia
3 min read