What began in Afghanistan to inspire confidence in girls has landed in the parks and on the rooftops of Jo’burg’s inner city.

Sk8Shades is run by a former skateboard ramp builder who now recycles old skateboards into kiff sunglasses.

The Northern Cape town got a taste of ‘radical’ as the international skateboarding community invaded it for the world championships.

German police said on Wednesday they were looking for a skateboarder who was filmed travelling at about 100km/h on a motorway.

Waheed Ullah, a scruffy Kabul shoeshine boy, had never heard of skateboarding. Then one evening he perched his body on a skateboard and pushed off.