Cricket Gave Me Everything: South African Sports Star Brings Township Children Into The Game

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cricket gave me everything south african sports star brings township children into the game
Gary Kirsten was a top international player and coach but rates his work in Cape Towns Khayelitsha as one of the highlights of his cricketing career Photographs by Chris de Beer-Procter Its just after 3pm on a Friday and 22-year-old Sinelethu Yaso is in her happy place. Her spotless cricket whites pop against the synthetic green turf, while the upbeat rhythms of music waft on the breeze as she ambles in to bowl. Beyond the boundary, in the Makhaza area of Khayelitsha township, in South Africas Cape Flats, laundry flutters on a wire fence and the September sun reflects off a corrugated-iron lean-to.
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