Andrew Brand

Congrats to @CheckersSA & @99cents: BRONZE EFFIE for “Little Shop Goes Xtra” in the Omni-Channel Shopper Solution / Commerce & Shopper category. Reviving a cultural favourite — 9.4% uplift in basket size & 10M minis collected. #EffieAwardsSA #Effie2025 #MarketingEffectiveness

@horsevault Never raced and sired 4 foals without success. Tough game.

@caperacing1 Yet another abandoned race meeting and no official notification on social media or the CR website?

@NeilAndrews65 Rocking it 🙌

Fabulous to be fashioned by Fabiani ❤️

@pookiepolls Pretty clear this is AI (unfortunately)

WILD LION STORMS INTO GROCERY STORE IN SOUTH AFRICA. It's Sunday buffet for Simba.

@PaulBalsom @BoyanSlat Unroll @threadreaderapp

This looks like science fiction, but it's real. A 16-year-old builds a robot that eats trash to save the oceans… and it actually starts working. No experience. No connections. Just pure obsession. This is a true story:🧵

@NeilAndrews65 @SuperSportTV @TerryPaine66 @SouthamptonFC @England Happy birthday @TerryPaine66 and all the very best 😇🎂🍾

Happy Birthday 🎁🎈🎂🍾🥳 to the original Godfather of @SuperSportTV football ⚽️ @TerryPaine66 🤗 Good to see the @SouthamptonFC and @England legend still going strong 🙏

@42Courses Glad I was never on a ship with Violet Jessop

Three shipwrecks, one survivor. Meet Violet Jessop, the unsinkable nurse who lived to tell the tale.

@Wharfemeister @caperacing1 That’s not right. There’s a need to look after owners. Betting is obviously the lubricant for racing, but without owners there’s no engine. Look after owners and the sport will flourish.

@99cbrand @caperacing1 As do many other racing jurisdictions, just not here in the UK, unfortunately.

Fully agree with Darren. Owners should have a view of the racecourse in a box(s) and provided with a sit-down meal. Owners are what fund and make this sport. Instead, they are thrown in a marquee with a tepid buffet on offer and no view.

Race 4 #fairview || RUN THE WORLD (One World - Six Blue Notes) wins for trainer @SnaithRacing under a stunning ride by @richardfourie, congratulations to winning owner Mr A J Brand as well as winning breeder @Ridgemont_SA.

"I'm never going to apologise for getting into the final" Shukri Conrad, South Africa's Test coach, has hit back at criticism of his team reaching the World Test Championship final after a cycle in which they faced neither Australia nor England es.pn/4gS7aln

@BloodstockSA1 Master of my Fate

Can you guess the sire of this filly? 🧐

@BwanaChris I’m not sure there were any instructions to be honest 😂

@99cbrand That's what she's tasked with. Much like riding instructions at Durbanville on 100/1 shots

I have a guest arriving here from Salina, Kansas for a few days and Chef Ruth is tasked with providing her comfort food.

@BwanaChris That’s good

@99cbrand I have

In one of the coldest winters Poland had experienced, a young South African called Okey Geffin had time on his hands and lofty thoughts in his head as he pondered his bleak future. He was 21, he was a British army prisoner of war of Germany, and in 1943 there was no clear indication as to how World War Two would pan out. Geffin, a Johannesburger, had joined up with many South African youngsters at the outbreak of the war in 1939. They were youngsters keen for adventure and absorbed into Britain’s Eighth Army. Soon they were sent to northern Africa to fight the illustrious Afrika Korps, who were commandeered by the famous general Erwin Rommel. Around 12,000 South Africans were killed in the conflict, most of them in the deserts of Libya and Egypt, and in the Battle of Tobruk much of the Eighth Army was taken prisoner. Thousands of South Africans were interned in prisoner-of-war camps, along with many Australians and New Zealanders. Boredom would become a danger to mental health but the South Africans had some guiding lights in their number, including a Durban school teacher called Bill Payn. Payn was already a living legend because he had famously run the Comrades in his rugby boots in 1922. Wonderfully, he had stopped at pubs along the way for gainful refreshment, and at the three-quarter point, he imbibed what he called “rocket fuel” offered to him by a saviour who had materalised out of the blue. It was a mysterious female benefactor who proffered a peach brandy that propelled Payn to the finish. Payn volunteered for World War Two at age 46 and, along with Geffin, was taken to Stalag XX-A Poland when Rommel routed the British at Tobruk. Bill Payn had played for the Springboks in two Test matches against the British Lions in 1924 and had played many a game as a flank forward for Natal. The Maritzburg College old boy had become an institution as a teacher and rugby coach at DHS and when he saw thousands of young men despondent in their imprisonment in Poland, he organised rugby tournaments to keep them busy. It was Payn who organized a Tri-Nations tournament between South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He noticed a major talent in a stocky prop called Geffin. Now Geffin was harbouring a secret that, if revealed, would have meant his instant death. He was Jewish and this was the horrific time of the German holocaust against the Jews. Had the German warden known this, Geffin would have been executed. They did not find out and over the next two years, Payn coached Geffin into becoming one of the greatest @Springboks of them all. Payn noticed that Geffin could kick a rugby ball a mile and for two years (until the end of the war in April 1945) Geffin practiced the art of goal-kicking, under Payn’s watchful eye. That endless training would bear bountiful fruit in 1949 when the Boks at last resumed international duty. The All Blacks had been due to tour in 1946 but it would take three years before the massive disruption of World War Two calmed to a point where sports tours could resume. The Kiwis were obsessed with beating the Boks because, in the last series between the countries, the 1937 Boks had won a series in New Zealand, 2-1. So Fred Allen’s All Blacks docked in South Africa determined to avenge their loss of 1937. But in their way was Okey “The Boot” Geffin, who for two years had practiced his goal-kicking in the endless hours of life in a prisoner of war camp. Okey simply could not miss and the All Blacks would lose all four Tests in what became known as the “All Blacked out” series”. The Kiwis went home winless in a six-Test streak against the Boks dating back to 1937 and the next time they beat the Boks was in 1956. Siya Kolisi’s Boks beat the @AllBlacks this evening in Cape Town emulating the Springbok team of 1949 by winning 4 Tests in a row. Think of the cold, lonely Jewish South African called Okey Geffin and how he refined the art of goal-kicking while surrounded by watchful German machine guns

Siya Kolisi thanks Scott Robertson and the All Blacks for a fierce battle👏🇿🇦 #TRC2024

@haribaldijones All I’m wondering is why almost 25% of the starting XV are either (c) or (vc) 🙈 Has their bench also got a (c)?

We looking at All Black 23 and trying to discern which guys Leon did or didn’t want over Razor’s objection.

Securing a spot at Sawgrass! @TheBig_Easy claims his first senior major @KauligChamp.