No ordinary guy
Written by Carolyn Frost
I'm not a hero, I’m just an ordinary guy who gets to run out onto the field in front of 50 000 people over the weekend and play rugby, says Schalk Burger, when asked how he dealt with the constant hero-worship of fans when out in public.
Bolander caught up with Schalk, who lives in Wellington, at the Cape Town Stadium last Thursday, during the shooting of a Castle Lager advertisement involving team members from the three major sporting codes: Springboks, Proteas and Bafana Bafana.
The question was prompted by a number of extras clustering around him to take cell phone photographs and to chat to him, while the Springbok enjoyed his lunch. Schalk said it it was sometimes difficult to put a smile on one’s face, but that as a well-known sports person, he had a duty to always engage in a friendly manner.
On the question of associating sport with alcohol, Schalk said that while he respected that fact that there are those who do not consume alcohol, he enjoys a couple of beers or glasses of wine when out and about socially, and that he didn’t feel that it impacted on his performance when on the field.
Schalk and his father, Schalk Burger senior, own the wine farm Welbedacht, producing wine under the label Schalk Burger & Sons.
Move over Charlize, here comes Rikus
Written by Carolyn Frost
If a blonde, blue-eyed beauty from Benoni can make it big in Hollywood, then a self-effacing blue-eyed boytjie from Benoni can surely make it in the winelands. Tucked into a corner close to the N2 motorway to Cape Town, a stone’s throw outside Somerset West (in Eerste River), you’ll find the Croydon Residential Estate.
Champion conservationists
Written by Carolyn Frost
Neethlingshof is the latest estate to become a Biodiversity Wine Initiative (BWI) Champion, following a process initiated several years ago which saw the winery putting an extensive conservation and biodiversity programme into place.
Taking it to the limit
Written by Carolyn Frost
Conrad Stoltz from Stellenbosch competed in the two-member mixed team category of the Totalsports Terra Firma Challenge in Kleinmond on Saturday January 14. Together with his team member and wife Liezel, they placed first in this category with a winning time of 3:56:13 seconds.
A new start
Written by Carolyn Frost
As we dive into 2012, it is with a sense of nova initia (new beginnings) at the challenges and experiences ahead that await us. Finding a balance between resolutions and reality can be tricky, because the idealism of the former tends to be counteracted by the cold splash of the latter – but here’s to all our efforts anyway!
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