According to the club’s founder and coach, Afika Ndlazi, athletes could not wait to get out and practise again. Although the start of the season was very difficult because they could not practise, activities at the club recently started picking up again. The club was recently featured on the television programme, Top Runner, on SuperSport. Here, Ndlazi put the town on the map by sharing his view that coaching young athletes needed a “fatherly approach”.

“Coaching kids is a difficult job because of their emotions. You have to be more than just a coach; you also become a father to them,” he said during the trailer, which aired last month. He also explained how he and the former Olympic runner, Coolboy Ngamole, work together to develop local athletes. On 29 April, the club also hosted Jonathan Greyvenstein, who was previously the coach of the former Olympic high jumper, Jacques Freitag, South Africa’s multi-titled Germaine Weavers (Gayle) and Johan Van der Westhuizen, the legendary Springbok scrum-half.